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I'm also 100% improv for most of my shows, both solo and in my band Tiny Owl (tinyowl.bandcamp.com). Tiny Owl is wrestling with the idea of learning a few standards, but at this point we're still improv. Some of my best performances have been the ones I was most terrified about going in. Sometimes I'll forget a key piece of gear and will have to work without it. (It didn't work out that way at the last looping festival - I didn't play well that time at all.) About once a year I'll have something where I have to make a "score" for myself. Last year, it was a collaboration with local musician Cheryl Leonard (who plays plants and glass instruments) and two dancers. The "score" for each song was a diagram of how the pedals were set, a mood, and a list of the pads I use to generate the melody. Andy, you went: >Like they are so into it, dont even sell records or even archive the >songs..... I'm not aware of this being an expectation of improvised musicians. In fact, archiving the performances and listening to them later were huge in both figuring out what I'm about, musically, and learning what works and what doesn't. -- Matt Davignon mattdavignon@gmail.com www.ribosomemusic.com Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt