[NewMusic] natsuya takatani

[damon]

For some reason I have gone out to see music for 7 nights straight. 
Monday was not my favorite, I liked the solo but I really preferred the 
quartet at 1510, even the quiet/EAI sections felt charged with energy, 
Greenleif, Cremaschi Djll all sounded great.
As far as the quartet I did, "not being alive" is not an option with 
Joelle playing next you, so that set seemed to have plenty of life.
I don't find lack of evolution to be a problem, development in 
improvised music can be way over rated.

damon


On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:07 PM, corey fogel wrote:

> a little late, but, I want to say I saw the performance in Berkeley on
> Monday and I found it pretty boring. It was not ungraceful, not 
> unmusical,
> not even uninspiring necessarily. plenty of great colors, space, 
> melody,
> texture. but i felt his performance was ultimately more precious than 
> alive.
> the dynamics were a little understated for me. I didnt see much 
> fluidity or
> (ANY evolution) happening as far as direction/narrative. I really 
> liked the
> way theresa treated alot of moments with perfect contrast. but, 
> overall, i
> thought it was that seemingly arbitrary indeterminant collagey 
> disconnect of
> probable-improbable spontaneous music. I could have used either alot 
> more
> nuturing of raw expression, stream of consciousness vocabulary, 
> anything at
> any moment, or, more nurturing of the compositional entities of ideas 
> born,
> implemented in the moment. personally, i dont prefer the in-between, 
> which i
> feel is extremely common. the wishy-washy need to play the improv 
> genre.
>
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