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> tEd ® kiLLiAn schrieb: >> In my experience, it is impossible to depend upon or predict success >> when you start out with a blank slate for every performance. On 20 jun 2007, at 12.11, Stefan Tiedje wrote: > But starting out with a blank slate is the core of improvisation... > If you put something into it to secure yourself, you failed already... I'm not sure I'm prepared, any more, to subscribe to this idea of "starting out with a blank slate". The background is that I have noticed, after doing many improvised concerts, that I have developed a mental and emotional reference system within, that for me as the performer is exactly the opposite of a "a blank slate". Whatever happens "on the sounding surface" of the musical improvisation there are always new options popping up from this pool and all I have to do is to pick one and see where it leads to (which might be rather pretictable). So the question is if you really should call it "a blank slate" when you are in fact armed with loads of precise and accurate improvisational strategies? I can agree that it might seem to the unknowing audience as "a blank slate" - but that's just showmanship and not what really happens. Also, I agree with Stefan that you shouldn't think about your own music i terms of "failure". Sometimes an audience can really enjoy listening to musicians that are desperately trying to reach a common ground for improvisation. The performance doesn't become less interesting by the fact that they just keep on trying and never succeed in hooking up musically; actually that might just be the point ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://www.myspace.com/looproom