slightlymoving

19:10 8th Feb 2009

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reblogged from: quodlibet

Composition is a way to avoid improvising, and the study of composition is: you improvise to study compositions. If you need an example of new compositions, you have to improvise to get there.

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steve paxton (via quodlibet)

the distinctions between improvisation and composition are both smaller and grander than this quote shows. in performance improvisation i use compositional techniques and am composing in real time. in composed work i often use improvisational techniques to arrive at something repeatable and discrete. in performing composed work i have to be just as present as i am when performing improvised work and still use improvisational techniques to do so…

just thoughts in response to the quote!

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