For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
I don't research anything.
Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.