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.

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.

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.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.

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

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.