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"#19—Free Will, Free Improvisation: Are they Real?"0:00/2001× Are free will and free improvisation really free, or am I deluding myself? And is deluding myself a necessary condition for free will/improvisations ? Powered by Firstory Hosting
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"#18: Nocturne out of Context"0:00/2001× In an era when musical context has been subsu med in a sea of listener playlists, on-demand streaming and the general obsolescence of the album, who creates the larger context for a single piece of music? You do! Until
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#17: The Bottle Episode0:00/2001× The episode in which anything can happen but mostly doesn't... Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#16: Patriotica from the Left0:00/2001× Left-leaning improvisations on patriotic tunes for (what’s left of) Independence Day. Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#15: Avant-Garde for Wimps (Like Me)0:00/2001× I'll never dive fully into the avant-garde, but dipping my feet in that pool can be quite exhilarating! Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#14: Sad Movie Theme Gone Bad0:00/2001× Why am I a lousy film composer? Could it be because I'm a composer? Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#13: The Avant Garde Jazz for Dummies Episode0:00/2001× You may hate the avant-garde but, dammit, you need it more than you think. Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Episode #12: The Emperor Has New Clothes0:00/2001× A bluesy improvisation on the theme from the slow movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto inevitably leads me down the path of the inevitability of noninevitability. Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art0:00/2001× My recording equipment was flipping out (or maybe It was me). Which may seem like a hindrance to artistic expression , but then I realized that the flipping out was part of the flipping art! Powered by Firstory Hosting
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Episode #10: This is A Blues?0:00/2001× What is a blues? A genre? Musical form? A scale? It's all of those things and more because the blues is a fundamental musical structure with infinite possibilities for making musical statements. Which I find out here... Powered by
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Episode #9: Not What I Intended0:00/2001× When a free improvisation doesn't go the way I planned it leads me to the conclusion that sometimes the best-laid plans are the unlaid plans. Powered by Firstory Hosting
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#8: Everything is Related to Everything Else...and so what0:00/2001× Melodies aren't infinite, so don't sue me if my tune "sounds" somewhat like "yours." Powered by Firstory Hosting