“Improvising, what an earful! So much history and cultures and communities built around the practice—it’s impossible to reckon with it all at any moment in a recording or even a life’s work. And I think that’s where some of the chaos and token haphazardness of free improv sometimes come from. You listen to so much shit by so many artists of such insane musical prowess or none at all and think ‘well what the hell am I supposed to do next.’ Sometimes you write songs, or symphonies, or build a ten foot modular synthesizer, and sometimes you just pull up in a garage and go nuts on the fly. There’s a lot of value I believe in having recordings like this as snapshots of an artist’s path. A unique humanness in hearing pure, albeit error-prone thoughts made in sound. There’s a natural tendency, especially with everyone’s life story being blasted out on the internet, to try to disguise the learning process and the perfecting of a craft and trick people into thinking, ‘I did this precise thing followed by this precise thing’ and I really think that’s never how it works. I think there’s beauty and a special kind of musician/listener relationship gained in presenting something uncomplicated and fleeting in process. Lastly, making crazy music is like therapy and hearing it can be too!”
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