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

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

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

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.

I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.

I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.

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