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Originally Posted by roachboy
*snip* i have been doing improvised music for many years now. often folk think that improvisaton means no rules. that isn't at all true--there are always rules--you reproduce them continually, in your style, in your note selection, in the phrasing, in allusions, in your compostional logic. what improvisation does is puts you in a position of being able to tamper with/change your relation to these rules. but you can be sure that you wont tamper with or change much of anything if you are not aware of what it is that you are doing before, during and after you perform--at the more or less political level. the trick is to combine this self-awareness with a radical openness in the space of the performance.
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It is the same in dance. I perform mostly improvisational raks orientale (belly dance) and dance fusion, and it doesn't mean I act out a physical form of Turette's Syndrome, it means I'm aware of *all* the "rules" of *all* the forms, and perform accordingly.
I have no problem with emphasizing certain aspects of my personality or psyche in different places as appropriate--sexy characture on stage when doing burly, serene when doing Egyptian-style dance, etc. Even being silly when out drinking with friends. But there needs to be a payback, and I don't see that happening there.
I'm also big on structure. That's what get's me going, motivates me--bringing order to chaos. There's enough lacking structure in day-to-day life that I don't find it attractive to go out of my way to even marginally participate. Not knocking the experiment per se, just explaining why it doesn't appeal to me, and why I won't be participating.