Re: Improvisation = fast Composition ?

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

>>
>>"Improvisation is just really fast Composition"
>
>nice, but IS it?
>
>Schoenberg certainly knows better than me, but sometimes things are 
>just said because they sound nice...
>
>The Composer takes time to think and plan and correct and elaborate 
>(mental).
>Improvisation is so massively faster that the player rather 
>concentrates on what happens than on what he is going to do 
>(intuition)

I am inclined to think that composition allows iterative editing, in 
a way that improv does not. For example one can change the beginning 
of a composition after hearing the ending, before any one else hears 
the beginning. I don't know if that's "better" or "worse", but it 
does seem, to me, like a difference between the practices.

And, one of the reasons I like the whole looping/live sampling/live 
editing/spontaneous studio production world is that it precisely 
opens up some space in between.

-Alex S.