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Re: Composition & Improvisation (was Re: Terje Rypdal was ECM guitarists)
Playing without a net is what I end up doing. Sometimes it goes well.
Sometimes I'm running on empty and I wish I had some material to fall
back on.
Mark
On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Warren Sirota wrote:
> Sorry if this sounds flip, but I'd just say, play without a net. (i
> say this without having followed any of the previous thread that
> spawned this)
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Hamburg<mark@grubmah.com>
> wrote:
>> When I was last in conscious recording mode -- as opposed to, the
>> recorder
>> happens to be running while I'm playing -- the approach I found
>> myself
>> taking was to improvise until I found something I liked, then hone
>> in on
>> various elements of it playing the "piece" repeatedly until I had
>> the flow
>> down, then record it possibly doing a couple takes while doing so.
>> Having
>> then committed the piece to some form of recording medium, I would
>> then
>> proceed to let it flow back out of my brain which was fine until I
>> found
>> myself in a live performance situation with no material to fall
>> back on.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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> Warren
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