Total improvisation vs professional training
 

Prevost 73: "Total improvisation (which admits all sounds and all possible performance strategies) is a process foreign, and perhaps abhorrent, to the conventionally trained musician"
 
related, 71: "the more uncertain the manner and means of making music, the more likely the admission of new influences and meanings to perception"
 
also related: this note on the "technically adept," p. 138: "The technically adept may delude themselves that they have mastered the medium. Such instrumentalists are supercharged automatons, revered in a technocratic culture."

> from Edwin Prevost's No Sound Is Innocent: AMM and the Practice of Self-Invention (1995)

> tagged with #improvisation, #music, #amateurism

> created March 9, 2026 at 5:23:31 PM


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