“We simply begin by improvising,” says Helena Gaunt. Whenever they meet, in any setting, Helena Gaunt and Bart van Rosmalen simply start by playing. You cannot theorise beforehand, because there is nothing yet to theorise on. The situation in improvisation is that you know that you don’t know; there is no time and there are no criteria for deciding whether something is good or bad. You have to postpone your judgement. Bart van Rosmalen: “And you need that for the creative situation; you have to take intuitive decisions.” Exercising improvisation helps you to develop this ability of postponing the judgement. Like Miles Davis said: “Play it first , and tell what it is later.”
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