A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.
Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.