I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.