further poetschke improv thoughts

in response to the latest installment of karl poetschke (a.k.a. gabriel wolf)'s thoughts on improvisation (which had to do with training your ear), i wrote back, "i've heard some interesting harmonies/dissonances on the recordings when i've misheard matt's tonal center."

his response:

no matter how tuned our ears are, there is always a 10% factor of chaos that will be present. learning to accept and ride this chaos (surfing it) will usually bring about some of the most interesting musical exchanges.

it seems in improvisation, as well as with life, there is this cosmic sequence:

death gives life
life gives rebirth
rebirth gives movement
movement gives change
change is inevitable and brings chaos (and opportunity)
that leads to death
and then it starts over...

happy hunting!