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This is the Mother of all improv/creativity books. I have underlined and transferred so many passages of it to my personal collection of quotations that I might as well just copy the whole book. The author is both engaging and informative in discussing the mysteries of creation, imagination, improvisation, and intuition in art and life. A life-changer. Run, don?t walk to get your copy.
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Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people as me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about technique of one art form or another.
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
Jeffrey, August 15, 2006
This is the Mother of all improv/creativity books. I have underlined and transferred so many passages of it to my personal collection of quotations that I might as well just copy the whole book. The author is both engaging and informative in discussing the mysteries of creation, imagination, improvisation, and intuition in art and life. A life-changer. Run, don?t walk to get your copy.Quote:
Many musicians are fabulously skilled at playing the black dots on the printed page, but mystified by how the dots got there in the first place and apprehensive of playing without dots. Music theory does not help here; it teaches rules of the grammar, but not what to say. When people as me how to improvise, only a little of what I can say is about music. The real story is about spontaneous expression, and it is therefore a spiritual and a psychological story rather than a story about technique of one art form or another.
(10 of 14 readers found this comment helpful)