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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.

— Mattin Interview (2007)

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No other type of music-making contradicts itself through its recording like improvisation does.

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Only very few manage to keep searching for fragility; it requires musicians to make multiple breaks from their own traditions.

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If successful, improvisation runs against its own dogmatism.

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Opening new fields of permissibility means to go fragile until we destroy the fears that hold us back.

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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…

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