Re: George Lewis' "Improvised Music..."

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

Yes, Voltage has a lot of electronics, and some with Dempa too, which by the way is an excellent CD!  But I'd say most of it is still electro-acoustic, rather than pure electronic.  It's just the type of music that I've been into lately. There is something very appealing to me about using a real physical instrument and actual playing it as a basis for electronic manipulation.  I guess it is the "player" in me and the years and years I have devoted to playing instruments and attempting to be competant at playing them without the aid of electronics.

 

Kris

 

----- Original Message -----

 

Hi Kris, I too am interested in the pdf. Very timely as I’ve been pondering how much of my time to put into learning standards  vs. concentrating on the much more out stuff… not that they are mutually exclusive or not cross-fertilizing, of course…

 

I noticed that I don’t recognize anything on your recent listening CD list that involves live electronic manipulation, though some of the folks you list have of course been involved in that, for instance Evan Parker and his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and Lewis himself perhaps… but maybe the handful with which I am not familiar do. Voltage? Dempa? Lewis with Muhal and Roscoe?   

 

Hal Dean

 

From: Todd Lainhart [mailto:tlainhart@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:09 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: George Lewis' "Improvised Music..."

 

Hi Kris -

Thanks for your kind offer of sending out the PDF on improvisation.  I'd also like to get a copy, if you can spare the send.

If you like, I can also host a link to it on my website (hidden somewhere on the server).

thanks!  -- Todd

-------------------------------------
 Anyone read the George Lewis' "Improvised Music after 1950"?  Unbelievably earth-shaking, pivotal, and paradigm shifting work in light of the history of improvisation....recommended reading to me by Jeff Kaiser. I have a PDF copy for anyone interested.

...but it's pretty damn cool that science is starting to show that us improvisers having something unique going on in our brains when we play.

Kris