Re: Composition & Improvisation (was Re: Terje Rypdal was ECM guitarists)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Gareth
Whittock<buddhamachine@live.co.uk> wrote:
> I hate playing without a structure

He, he... and I have sometimes been thinking that I maybe hear too
much structures in plain noise. ;-))

But, seriously: to my surprise, when being lucky to team up with just
as "introvert" co-improvisers it has turned out the audience have also
"heard" the same structures - so I guess it can't be total
imagination.  Have you noticed that there is a structure to silence as
well?

Somehow I think it is not so much about talent but rather about trust
and attitude. If you trust in the process it will reward you. But if
you just feed a fraction of disbelief in your mind the music will not
reveal a structure for you to play with. Another wonderful aspect is
that if you do not try hard, a lot of elements will fall into the
right places. It really is the power of non-strength.

A trick to get into this is to not play the structures you hear right
off the shelf; you should rather play around them, play comments and
fun variations of the structures. Then new structures will emanate and
the process will continues.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com