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That is excellent news. Although I have to admit I’m not so much an avowed Jazz aficionado as I simply enjoy it as background atmospheric “pairing” when I’m wo

• inopinatus 8y ago
  Jazz improvisation to me is like programming; the refactoring of existing themes, and the introduction of new features, under time pressure.
  • bshepard 8y ago
    Post-"representational" Painting is also strangely like this as well, even, strangely enough, with a certain time pressure: the first mark/stroke will, most of the time, be be better than the marks that come after that, and a corrected stroke almost invariably worse. Plus, as time continues, the surface ages. Here's a concept from 19th century music that seems connected to the question of thematic refactoring/development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_transformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thematic_transformation