Attentive listening - an introduction

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Attentive listening - an introduction

Post by Admin » Fri Nov 22, 2019 2:36 pm

It is rather obvious that free ensemble improvisation demands “an intense concentration on the music” and “an intense listening to the whole” (point 1), since there is nothing else to adopt as a base for the interaction between the musicians, that is to say, the ensemble improvisation, than their listening to one another. Notes, conductors and stylistic models are no longer present, and the only thing left to musically relate to is what is actually sounding and how it is sounding. (source: quoted & discussed in Free Ensemble Improvisation, Harald Stenström,)

`Nunn gets the last word on the importance of listening for free improvisation. “It was stated that free improvisation is not made, it is allowed to make itself, and this comes from active listening”. (Nunn 1998: 87)`
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