Keith Jarrett
"There's never been a time when improvisation was given the respect it deserved. By virtue of the holistic quality of it, it takes everything to do it, it takes real-time, no editing possible, it takes your nervous system to be on alert for every possible thing in a way that can not be said for any other kind of music."
Interviewer
"How important are other things in influencing the way you think?"
Keith Jarrett
"More important than music!"
Interviewer
"Like writing, philosophy?
Keith Jarrett
"More important than music...One of the biggest fallacies I think, in art circles and in music circles maybe when people talk about it is that music comes from music...music is the result of a process the musician's going through, especially if he's creating it on the spot."
- from "Keith Jarrett - The Art of Improvisation"
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With family in Israel, a live drum and bass duo explode the
stage in a spark plug of sonic smithereens. The audience is drowned out in a
hemp haze of blistering monitors which fuss and blow like a spiked gourd of
grog. I am reminded of music by OM. This isn’t the right crowd. The auditorium
audience begins to split as a punk metal doom bit hits incendiary in the
mathematical freeze of anti-traditional musical formulae. As people begin to
clear out, I take up a clarinet I had recently played on in the upper tiers of
my consciousness on Earth. The subconscious knows the notes. Explorative and
experimental I dash the family reunion and mystifying context of concert for my
own harmonious bout with sound, bleeding through the fire of an impassioned
reed. I stimulate the Earth with sounds of disbelief freed.
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Guitar
"Upon hearing the weird music of a guitar, the dreamer should fortify herself against flattery and soft persuasion, for she is in danger of being tempted by a fascinating evil. If the dreamer be a man, he will be courted, and will be likely to lose his judgement under the wiles of seductive women. If you play on a guitar, your family affairs will be harmonious." (iDream)
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Astral Chamber
meeting completely rapt
& immersed
with clear exacting light
(without bright glare)
miraculous breath of spirit
allowing greater sight
drowning one inward
there apparent
she ghosts ever near
to wrap and envelop me
in the Act
March 9, 2011
Chinatown Calgary. Bedside.
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