samedi 21 novembre 2009
invite Caroline Kraabel (saxophone, voix) et John Edwards (contrebasse)
To improvise effectively one has first to listen very acutely and sensitively. Whatever approach one adopts in response to what one has heard, in order to truly improvise one must play something that is specific to the the moment, company and circumstances; it must also be specific to oneself.
There is a productive tension, in life and in music, between improvising and being yourself – not that these two things are diametrical opposites, but they do tend to pull in different directions, and are sometimes hard to reconcile.
It's evident that one is required to be literally oneself – and much beautiful music comes out of the plain joyfulness of people being and expressing truly who they are – but the thing that's specific to improvising is that it demands that the music be made afresh each time: the more aspects of the music are unique to that moment, the more improvised that music is.
This means that after working for a long time on improvising, the musician eventually comes up against the fact that the self that she brings to each new playing situation is still the same one. What to do? Clearly, it's possible to make novel sounds at random, but this is a bit of a lottery and means the musician has let go perhaps too completely of herself, her love and understanding of particular kinds of sounds, gestures, moods – and maybe risks letting go of her reasons for playing the music in the first place.
On the other hand, there is a lot of excellent music made in which the players remain frankly themselves and rejoice in an interaction that, though improvised, still has something familiar about it, like a stimulating, comfortable family conversation.
Real improvising is risky, requiring long hard work, courage and trust; it requires you to go beyond your usual ways of hearing, being and playing, without being untrue to yourself, and to forge new ways, and completely new music, for each occasion. This balancing act, this apotheosis of communication, is what makes music, and improvisation, indispensable to the human organism.
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enregistrements en publicDeux séances d'improvisations enregistrées un samedi par mois à 17h30
Studio 106 à Radio France
Entrée libre et gratuite dans la limite des places disponibles. > samedi 28 novembre - au studio 105 à 17h : L'Ensemble Dédales de Dominique Pifarely
18h30 : Quartet en résidence à la Muse en Circuit> samedi 12 décembre - au studio 106 à 17h : Carol Robinson (clarinettes) et Frances Marie Utti (violoncelle)
 prochaines émissions> 28 novembre à 0h - Portrait : Jean-Marc Foltz, clarinette> 4 décembre à 0h - invite Audrey Chen, Frédéric Blondy, Michael Johnsen, Jérôme Noetinger> 11 décembre à 0h - invite l'Ensemble Dédales de Dominique Pifarely
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