8 quotes
No other type of music-making contradicts itself through its recording like improvisation does.
Anti-Copyright: Why Improvisation and Noise Run Against the Idea of Intellectual Property (2008)
Only very few manage to keep searching for fragility; it requires musicians to make multiple breaks from their own traditions.
Going Fragile (2005)
If successful, improvisation runs against its own dogmatism.
Anti-Copyright: Why Improvisation and Noise Run Against the Idea of Intellectual Property (2008)
Opening new fields of permissibility means to go fragile until we destroy the fears that hold us back.
Going Fragile (2005)
While nobody might recognise the importance of what you have done, you need to keep your confidence. It is difficult to be alone in working toward something and yet not know where it will take you…
Going Fragile (2005)
Maybe I still am, but I also understand more the problems involved with rock, how close-minded it sometimes is, how male.
Interview by Dan Warburton (2009)
When does the improvisation begin? As we started to play or when we started talking about it?
Interview (2007)
I am very dubious of the idea of spontaneity, as if what we do to be free could ever be without restrictions by ideologies, circumstances, spaces, people in the room, aesthetics and judgments.
Interview (2007)