Music Shows

I really love improvisations that go nowhere. Improvisations where there is no goal… just an impulse to follow feelings in the current moment.
In fact, some have described this kind of music as self-indulgent – a kind of musical fantasy world where the focus is more on the band than the listener.
Of course, this isn’t the case at all. You see, most of us are used to having our music wrapped up in good neat little packages.  all of us  aren’t used to actually listening to music.  all of us  expect an “emotional experience” right away. And it better happen in 3-4 minutes or else.
Take Japanese Shakahuachi music for example. For those of you who don’t know, the shakahuachi is a Japanese flute. It’s beautiful sound is appreciated by a lot of in the East.
I have a few CDs of this music and everytime I listen to them I hear something new. It’s as if each time the CD  is played I hear it for the 1st time. It never gets old. Why? Because of the absence of musical form!
There isn’t much for the mind to grasp or hold onto. Repetition of musical phrases is al most non existent. Instead,  all of us  get music in the absence of goals!
If the re is a goal at all, it is that the person performing the music remains in the present while playing. What  all of us  hear is the “state of mind” of the band at the exact time the recording is made.
In one of my own piano pieces “Cirrus,” (listen to it at http://www.quiescencemusic.com) I do the same thing. And everytime I listen to it, it seems that it is somehow vary d. Yet the music always remains fresh and pliant – waiting to be located again and again.
Having said all of this, I have little against musical form and the works that come from it. I just think the “other” kind of music is just as valid and important