Cris wrote
"more recently Ken Edwards (well, he might have up to it for 20 years, i'm
sure he'll enter here) has been working on compositions invoking
improvisation"
No, I've only been actively composing/improvising/performing music in
public in the past 3 or 4 years - though I did improvise on violin once at
one of Bob Cobbing's events at the old LMC premises in Camden Town many
years ago - I remember being scared stiff...
I'm particularly interested in the relationship between fixed and unfixed
structures, and, like Cris, distrust the "free" in "free improvisation".
BTW this may be a good time to announce that an 8-minute piece of mine for
string quartet, "Ornettology" (in homage to Ornette Coleman) will be
performed by the Sorrel Quartet at the Cheltenham Festival, on the 10th or
11th of July. It doesn't utilise improvisation in the strict sense, though
the performers have some licence in interpreting the dots in the first
section. I'll post final details as soon as I have em.
Ken
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