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Originally Posted by roachboy
i think we that we are basically oscillators and that collective improvisation works because it repeats the nature and operation of coupled oscillators. if you put two oscillators near each other and just let them run, they'll couple. when they couple, they'll generate a new wave form that is not the sum of the parts and which is remarkably stable. i think this explains what happens in a collective improvisation--particularly the strange sense that i at least often get that what i am playing is in some ways not my choice so much as what is required situationally. so practicing the piano is simply making the widest range of options available technically. and going blank is just a device for being open.
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Fascinating. This reminds me of the behavior of large groups of animals in the wild... watching a massive flock of birds whirl and twirl simultaneously above me, their silent communication completely beyond my perception/understanding. I am sure they don't even know how they do it... it just happens. Same with schools of fish and other groups of organisms that signal each other instantaneously, and the whole group is able to change direction quickly. I don't know if that's what you were referring to, but it came to mind.
As for oscillators... heh, funny you mention that word. On the thread "Pick a word," I lingered on that one (oscillator) to describe myself. Moving back and forth between two (or more) points, never stopping, but always on the same track. Maybe that explains some of the stability between me and ktspktsp.
