Tag: improvisation
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Fox Tossing, and other musical concepts
Over the past two years I have been pursuing my musical goals with more focus, specifically on my commitment to “free music” and improvisation. I caught the free jazz bug early in life and it has continued to be a fundamental force in my musical life. One of the things that has become more clear…
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Fuchsprellen follow-up and thoughts on 2012
As luck wold have it we were jumped by a snow storm on December 26, resulting in a cancellation of the Fuchsprellen gig at Best Video in Hamden. The forecast called for aout an inch, maybe, and mostly rain, and we got half a foot of snow instead. That is typical of southern New England,…
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Stockhausen on Ice
New Haven Improvisers Collective ran through a suite of Stockhausen pieces for the January workshop. The forms were taken from the composition “Auf den seben Tagen” (From the seven days). The pieces are very open to interpretation, thankfully, and the group really dug in and did some fine work. Jeff Cedrone, Paul McGuire, Peter Riccio,…
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File Under “Coincidence”
After composing the previous post I opened up a Cecil Taylor CD (Trance), lent to me by my friend Peter Riccio. I read the liner notes, written by Erik Wiedemann in 1963… As I got to the end I could not help but laugh: “If a man plays for a certain amount of time –…
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