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thank you very much
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improvisation is something that I have
been using in my life as a musician and
as a teacher and as a composer for a
little bit more than 30 years think it’s
a fantastic thing and I still don’t know
really what it is too bad entropy to be
honest but if I normally you know like I
did now I was improvising from the
inside this is how I do it but to look
on it from the outside it’s not so easy
but I will try to speak about it and I
think it starts with an action you have
to do something you have to jump
straight into the creative act where
thinking actually gets too slow and you
don’t have any possibilities for editing
and that can be a little scary of course
from the beginning but but I think it’s
a good thing to use I think we all can
use improvisation in our daily life just
to make life a little bit more fun you
know take a different way home from work
or or just realize that there it’s not
only one way of doing things we can
think differently about many things and
do things in many different ways so what
does it take to improvise well
I think it takes it takes that you are
in the present moment that you listen
and of course it takes courage because
you have to welcome the future you have
to welcome the unknown it’s not so fun
so easy always but it’s it’s about that
I was lucky when I was a kid I grew up
with parents that were working as
volunteers in the local jazz festivals
and I was lucky to hear some fantastic
music when I was a kid I heard fantastic
musicians I met some fantastic musicians
and when I got older I also worked in
the organization a little bit I helped
receiving tickets by the entrance I
brought sandwiches to the musicians you
know giving flowers to the singers and
to to the musicians after the concerts
and stuff like that but there was there
were there was the music of course
attending these concerts fantastic
concert to listen and to see those
luminescent brilliant musicians playing
their hearts out on stage it was
fantastic it was so inspiring
I felt that wow I want to play music too
and I discovered I fell in love with
this instrument the saxophone not so
much about the sound actually in the
beginning but the looks of it it’s
beautiful isn’t it shiny a lot of keys
and at when you are 10 or 12 you don’t
understand all the small codes in music
but now when I’m older I realize that
the musicians they were improvising they
were playing with music in the truest
sense and it was for me it was
completely something magic about it and
I also I think I learned that maybe
music can be the sound of the soul and
if it’s that way
maybe improvisation is the soul of music
when I teach beginners how to improvise
I try to remember this and I try to give
my students something of that as I said
earlier it can be scary in the beginning
when you improvise so you have to take
the students by the hand and you have to
take them with you into the exciting
bubble of music because when you
improvise for the first time it’s like
entering a different reality it’s like
getting in touch with the process or
really making music
after almost any raw material at all so
when you do that for the first time it’s
nice to be together with your some
friends and maybe your teacher or
something like that because you it’s
like you entered the bubble of music and
you see the colors for the first time
and you feel the smell of music and you
try to gain the courage to to jump to
create to do something so I have this
maybe it’s a strange idea but I have
this idea that we shall do a small
improvisation together we will make some
music together
do you want to try to do something okay
good good
okay we will work with three boxes and
in box number one I I will give you very
simple very basic tools so in box number
one we have the glissando tool and a
glissando it’s you take your voice and
you do up and down like that
and you can choose the speed and arrange
its you can improvise that I don’t mind
let’s listen to that box number one
glissando and you don’t have to do it
simultaneously you can do it like this
yeah that’s better that’s great that’s
wonderful
okay and let’s move over to box number
two this will be the sound effect nature
box we will have wind and we do the wind
like this that’s great and we do some
water like
wonderful and and you can choose one of
them or you can do them at the same time
that’s cool
yeah so that’s box number two and then
we have box number three in box number
three we will be a bunch of barking dogs
you you can choose your favorite dog
sounds okay okay Ready Steady Go
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so did you realize that we were actually
making music together now and we were
even improvising a little bit it’s not
not so hard this can be a way in to the
world of improvising actually
improvising has been around in all kinds
of music in all times
and sometimes when I think about
improvisation I I divide it into three
parts and part one it’s like
improvisation exists like a method
method in different in different kinds
of musical dialects you know in jazz we
have one dialect in folk music in
different one in Baroque music in Indian
music or in Brazilian music it’s all
different and the second part is like
music improvisation can exist like a
genre in music or in the arts and the
last part improvisation exists also like
an attitude an attitude towards life an
attitude in life that makes our life
more fun when we trust our intuition and
when we jump straight into the creative
act we’re thinking gets too slow thank
you
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
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[Music]
thank you very much
[Music]
improvisation is something that I have
been using in my life as a musician and
as a teacher and as a composer for a
little bit more than 30 years think it’s
a fantastic thing and I still don’t know
really what it is too bad entropy to be
honest but if I normally you know like I
did now I was improvising from the
inside this is how I do it but to look
on it from the outside it’s not so easy
but I will try to speak about it and I
think it starts with an action you have
to do something you have to jump
straight into the creative act where
thinking actually gets too slow and you
don’t have any possibilities for editing
and that can be a little scary of course
from the beginning but but I think it’s
a good thing to use I think we all can
use improvisation in our daily life just
to make life a little bit more fun you
know take a different way home from work
or or just realize that there it’s not
only one way of doing things we can
think differently about many things and
do things in many different ways so what
does it take to improvise well
I think it takes it takes that you are
in the present moment that you listen
and of course it takes courage because
you have to welcome the future you have
to welcome the unknown it’s not so fun
so easy always but it’s it’s about that
I was lucky when I was a kid I grew up
with parents that were working as
volunteers in the local jazz festivals
and I was lucky to hear some fantastic
music when I was a kid I heard fantastic
musicians I met some fantastic musicians
and when I got older I also worked in
the organization a little bit I helped
receiving tickets by the entrance I
brought sandwiches to the musicians you
know giving flowers to the singers and
to to the musicians after the concerts
and stuff like that but there was there
were there was the music of course
attending these concerts fantastic
concert to listen and to see those
luminescent brilliant musicians playing
their hearts out on stage it was
fantastic it was so inspiring
I felt that wow I want to play music too
and I discovered I fell in love with
this instrument the saxophone not so
much about the sound actually in the
beginning but the looks of it it’s
beautiful isn’t it shiny a lot of keys
and at when you are 10 or 12 you don’t
understand all the small codes in music
but now when I’m older I realize that
the musicians they were improvising they
were playing with music in the truest
sense and it was for me it was
completely something magic about it and
I also I think I learned that maybe
music can be the sound of the soul and
if it’s that way
maybe improvisation is the soul of music
when I teach beginners how to improvise
I try to remember this and I try to give
my students something of that as I said
earlier it can be scary in the beginning
when you improvise so you have to take
the students by the hand and you have to
take them with you into the exciting
bubble of music because when you
improvise for the first time it’s like
entering a different reality it’s like
getting in touch with the process or
really making music
after almost any raw material at all so
when you do that for the first time it’s
nice to be together with your some
friends and maybe your teacher or
something like that because you it’s
like you entered the bubble of music and
you see the colors for the first time
and you feel the smell of music and you
try to gain the courage to to jump to
create to do something so I have this
maybe it’s a strange idea but I have
this idea that we shall do a small
improvisation together we will make some
music together
do you want to try to do something okay
good good
okay we will work with three boxes and
in box number one I I will give you very
simple very basic tools so in box number
one we have the glissando tool and a
glissando it’s you take your voice and
you do up and down like that
and you can choose the speed and arrange
its you can improvise that I don’t mind
let’s listen to that box number one
glissando and you don’t have to do it
simultaneously you can do it like this
yeah that’s better that’s great that’s
wonderful
okay and let’s move over to box number
two this will be the sound effect nature
box we will have wind and we do the wind
like this that’s great and we do some
water like
wonderful and and you can choose one of
them or you can do them at the same time
that’s cool
yeah so that’s box number two and then
we have box number three in box number
three we will be a bunch of barking dogs
you you can choose your favorite dog
sounds okay okay Ready Steady Go
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
[Applause]
so did you realize that we were actually
making music together now and we were
even improvising a little bit it’s not
not so hard this can be a way in to the
world of improvising actually
improvising has been around in all kinds
of music in all times
and sometimes when I think about
improvisation I I divide it into three
parts and part one it’s like
improvisation exists like a method
method in different in different kinds
of musical dialects you know in jazz we
have one dialect in folk music in
different one in Baroque music in Indian
music or in Brazilian music it’s all
different and the second part is like
music improvisation can exist like a
genre in music or in the arts and the
last part improvisation exists also like
an attitude an attitude towards life an
attitude in life that makes our life
more fun when we trust our intuition and
when we jump straight into the creative
act we’re thinking gets too slow thank
you
[Applause]
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