Re: This is your brain on jazz -- MRI studies of improvisation

[Claude Voit <c.voit@vtx.ch>]

Oh yes and also you don't violate the rules 
properly/artistically/seriously if you don't have a very clear idea of 
what they are...
all _real_ musical innovators had solid ground in what was there before
hence a history of transcribe, study, imitate, the elders.

Claude

andy butler a écrit :

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> Somewhere there's a Stockhausen quote about imitation coming before 
> innovation.
> Probably from a book that was in our local library before it burned 
> down, so
> no way to trace it.
> I think there was even an intermediate phase of "transformation" (taking 
> the imitated stuff and changing it).
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> So it seems for most musicians, it starts with imitation of others 
> (perhaps using transcription), and then may progress to working 
> variations on other peoples ideas before ending up as innovation.
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> The other side of the coin might well be those who innovate because they 
> lack the
> ability to imitate.
> andy butler
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