Solo Gig VI by DAVEY WILLIAMS WHAT IS MUSICAL FREE IMPROVISATION Improvisation in music traditionally involver elements which are not improvised; characteristic forms and tonalities, rhythms and harmonies, idioms and genres to be played within or in relation to. Limited forms of improvising are standard in many Western and Eastern classical musics, and in jazz, rock, blues, songs of all sorts; in any music which hold expectations of some particular yet extemporizable content. By contrast, free music improvisation means playing spontaneously-derived music with no pre-determined content whatsoever, with the intent to liberate musical context from being any given type of music, and even from any model of what music is supposed to sound like. This process opens up tremendous possibilities for sonic languages and structures, replacing the role of pre-existent form with a highly malleable type or real-time structural organization Read the whole article HERE preparedguitar.blogspot.es/2015/01/solo-gig-vi-what-is-musical-free.html Based in a noted musicians decades of personal experiences, his book Solo Gig: Essential Curiosities in Musical Free Improvisation (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011) examines some crucial and far-reaching aspects of musical free improvisation, with particular regard to live performances. In this illustrated collection of narrative essays, the author looks both into and from inside this uniquely paradoxical, challenging and rewarding way of making music, within the context of an inherently eccentric milieu.
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