When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
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Improvisation is a compositional method.
To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.
You have to know composition to be a good improviser.
The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear.
With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
I think improvisation is a technique and a tool. I think that even the best of them fail most of the time, and in the end, the audience is not interested in how you got there but in what you're saying. The more clearly and concisely and artistically you say it, the more effective it is.
The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.
I've always been into improvisation.
Improvisation is not a presentational form, except in small doses, or as a game. It's a tool.