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		<title>Improvising in any context</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improvising is the ability to take the frameworks we have been handed and to alter the parameters that exist in them.  As a musician that means who you are playing with, the compositions you select, and how flexible or rigidly you approach the forms within which you improvise.]]></description>
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		<title>To Start</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dimitri Vandellos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have often wondered why it's so difficult for improvising musicians to convey in words what the act of improvisation is.

As improvisers we may not know how to put into words what we are actually doing when we improvise; it's a non-language based real-time experience that (I feel) is related to a certain personality type. In my mind true improvisation is when the player doesn't know what he/she is going to do. [...]]]></description>
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