Had the opportunity last week to play some music with Mark Michelli, Jessie Downs and Doug Farrand. After surrounding myself with hardcore jazz all summer it was refreshing to play in a completely different direction (Non-idiomatic improvisation I guess, but I have always thought that that was a stupid term.)
I remember after a solo piano improvisation I played for a friend some time last month I commented to myself "I need to respect the sound more." I felt a need to remove the personal ego from my music. Some thoughts I had been sitting on- the music of Morton Feldman, and his idea of "sourceless sounds" also the work of artist Yves Klein, who I had beliefs that would be the visual art analogy to Feldman's ideas. Klein wanted his works to be about more than himself creating a piece. He wanted to depict the immaterial.
In any case, the music we played that day left me very satisfied. In all cases, the sound triumphed over individuals. The result was evocative as a whole, but was not stamped with the intent of any performer, something which can ruin music.
Look forward to more of this when I return to Oberlin in a week.
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