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Lab report October 9th 2008: being Paul Desmond

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Han-earl Park
on October 16, 2008
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In familiar ensembles, with performers you’ve worked with a lot, it’s often fruitful (and fun) to push and pull, and discover alternative relationships, and observe the network respond, change and reconfigure itself. Similarly, in a musical meeting between strangers, it’s also interesting to ‘test’ the network; to ascertain the wheres, whens, and under what conditions, of performers’ responses.

But between those two, for me, lies an interesting gray area (I encounter this situation less often than the other two). Continue reading ‘Lab report October 9th 2008: being Paul Desmond’

Lab report July 10th 2008: fitting the square piece into that triangular hole

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Han-earl Park
on July 25, 2008
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It’s good, I think, to think tactically about improvisation, and group improvisation in particular. You know, however, that you’ve lost the game in improvisation when you’re preempting the music. You don’t want to be thinking this is how it should be, goddamnit, and I will fit that square piece into that triangular hole. Continue reading ‘Lab report July 10th 2008: fitting the square piece into that triangular hole’

Lab report June 12th 2008: thoughts of a newbie improviser

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Melanie Marshall
on July 7, 2008
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I’ve often wondered what goes through an improviser’s head during group improvisation. The improvised public performances I’ve participated in before have been more like improvised compositions in a sense—one person takes charge, or there’s a kind of plan vaguely sketched out (usually with the proviso that things might happen differently). This was my first time going in ‘cold’, without a plan. Continue reading ‘Lab report June 12th 2008: thoughts of a newbie improviser’