poetschke on improvisation pt. 2
timely on the eve of the second pffffft! performance:
Learning to listen: as i stated before a state of no-thoughts or "tabla fucking rasa" as ken puts it (i like that!) is essential to pure improvisation or spontaneous group composition. the first step is being aware of your thoughts while playing yet remaining detached from them. i call this the "observation of the minds actions" mode. on a side note i must mention that music is essentially an affair of the emotions and less a display of mental acrobats. if only the young collegiates could get over what they "know" how to play and let themselves express more what they feel then maybe the denton scene would find more of them participating in a creative way! anyways..
after practicing this "observation" through-out a series of performances you will begin to notice that there may be a theme that surfaces or a group of themes much like if you where to catalog your dreams over a period of months (see carl jung "man and his symbols"). these themes are your unconscious farts and can lead you to yet another avenue of creativity if you follow them. what were you thinking about? was it positive or negative? was it about what to play? how to play it? what was going on around you? or were they just random thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere? the more honest you are with yourself here the more you will glean from it and the more creative outlets you will discover.
it seems that by observing our thoughts and not giving them any energy, dissipates them and allows and empty space (or womb) to grow. this "womb" then becomes the birthplace for our unconscious mind to birth itself into musical creativity.
Learning to listen: as i stated before a state of no-thoughts or "tabla fucking rasa" as ken puts it (i like that!) is essential to pure improvisation or spontaneous group composition. the first step is being aware of your thoughts while playing yet remaining detached from them. i call this the "observation of the minds actions" mode. on a side note i must mention that music is essentially an affair of the emotions and less a display of mental acrobats. if only the young collegiates could get over what they "know" how to play and let themselves express more what they feel then maybe the denton scene would find more of them participating in a creative way! anyways..
after practicing this "observation" through-out a series of performances you will begin to notice that there may be a theme that surfaces or a group of themes much like if you where to catalog your dreams over a period of months (see carl jung "man and his symbols"). these themes are your unconscious farts and can lead you to yet another avenue of creativity if you follow them. what were you thinking about? was it positive or negative? was it about what to play? how to play it? what was going on around you? or were they just random thoughts that seem to come out of nowhere? the more honest you are with yourself here the more you will glean from it and the more creative outlets you will discover.
it seems that by observing our thoughts and not giving them any energy, dissipates them and allows and empty space (or womb) to grow. this "womb" then becomes the birthplace for our unconscious mind to birth itself into musical creativity.
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