Improvisation is a compositional method.

Remarkable only the very best arrangers can get a sound like that from four horns

Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

When you add a period of 25 years between the playing and the listening, then the whole question of meaning gets very complicated.