Know What You Are Doing

This item is not in the library — it is a part of: C. Bergstrøm-Nielsen, Intuitive Music: A Mini Handbook.

(from Malene Bichel)

At any time, act according to the following three possibilities:
1) Stillness (no sound no movement)
2) Searching
3) Do something that must be done.
Shifts ad libitum.

Searching is a legitimate part of free improvisation — acknowledge it when relevant. If there is something you feel is important to do, do it. And if there is no special reason to make sound, be still, thus making more room for the sounds and the other players.


The wording above is by Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen, as written in Intuitive Music: A Mini-Handbook, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (Bergstrøm-Nielsen 2009, 15)



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