re: total improv

[Steve Uccello <stevebassbird@yahoo.com>]

Nothing like being in the moment! Enjoying the thoughts folk's are 
throwing out there-this thread reminds me of the notes on Kind Of Blue by 
Bill Evans:

"There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be 
spontaneous. He must paint on a thin stretched parchment with a special 
brush and black water paint in such a way that an unnatural or interrupted 
stroke will destroy the line or break through the parchment. Erasures or 
changes are impossible. These artists must practice a particular 
discipline, that of allowing the idea to express itself in communication 
with their hands in such a direct way that deliberation cannot interfere.

The resulting pictures lack the complex composition and textures of 
ordinary painting, but it is said that those who see well find something 
captured that escapes explanation.

This conviction that direct deed is the most meaningful reflections, I 
believe, has prompted the evolution of the extremely severe and unique 
disciplines of the jazz or improvising musician."

I've always loved that analogy for improv music -anyhow, be well everybody 
and, lastly, I'd like to share a little improv jam I did w/ percussion, 
bowed/pizzed upright bass, and elec guitar a while back-hope you dig:

http://www.youtube.com/user/UccelloProject#p/u/20/ATC4r3zukmM

-also another I did w/ bassist Bryan Beller at a house concert in my home 
in Monterey:

http://www.youtube.com/user/UccelloProject#p/u/18/dDyQ9QiR_qc

-Steve Uccello



--- On Sun, 2/20/11, bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>
> Subject: re: total improv
> To: loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 7:15 PM
> Howdy,
> 
>  To hear example of our, "hit record and go" muzik, go to
> www.turboproductions.org. Click on "Exp/Efx", and you will
> hear muzik created in real time, no rehearsal, recorded
> straight to stereo. As I was playing, mixing, and operating
> the machines at the same time, you will not hear a lot of
> panning, but you wil hear performances recorded in real time
> with no advavce plan.
> Rig
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