Bonjing About Town

[ted]

Loosely translated, the term refers to a grossly and comically immature hobbledehoy. My wife asserts I am such at seventy-three so I adopt the persona in public to her simultaneous delectation and chagrin.

[quantum]

I feel that art and music often requires of its creators to explore beyond the medium in order that its creators may thrive with fertile ideas within said medium.  If that means Bonjing About Town, then that is what it takes. 

This improvisation is filled with an intriguing complexity of ideas.  Many fragments that suggest an avenue to be explore, yet just as quickly, another fragment in contrast complements the previous.  There were moments that reminded me of Debussy. 

Well done!

[ted]

Thanks for listening Neil. Yes, hundreds of ideas crowd in on me during improvisation these days and usually I let them all run free. I could restrict and control them, as I could rein in my technique but I wouldn't enjoy my music as much. Nothing wrong with conscious structure during improvisation, of course, but its presence or absence is an artistic option just like any other musical facet. I agree that anything external to the music, whether from physical reality or from the life of the mind, is grist to the mill for idea generation, and often the trivial and mundane attain immense significance when expressed through art; that is surely the magic of the process.