Improvisation

[orbsycli]

Improvisation is understanding,
combined with transcending

What I can't figure out
is how fast it all works.

When I play guitar
and I'm just pluckin' like a gypsy
it's as if This is
my song,
and it was always going to play
and I learn along the way.

It's weird,
an ability i've developed
because every night
i just thought
and thought
and thought
and thought
and Listened
instead of heard.

Anybody else here improvise anything??
It's the weirdest ability. .

[nickelfire]

Hi, I guess improve can be interpreted in different ways, instead of direct art such as meaningful, soul wrenching music or gripping paintings (being more dramatic examples) I've always been fascinated with the written word, and the difficulty and challenge of expressing oneself through these words, I've been writing for a long time and will say so myself that at least once or twice I've come across on paper, (words) exactly how I wanted.
Anyway, sometimes when I write, the ideas (sometimes large ones) are straight from my head and onto the page, with no thinking time. Well thats about it for my improve experiences, what do you think?

[orbsycli]

I think it's all jazz,
all of this.

We can spit jazz
with words,
or motion
And it feels
O SO GOOD

[Magnet Man]

Been building a training center for ten years, from recycled material. Have to improvize ten/twenty times a day to make it all work. Many unique architectual results that could never have happened otherwise.

[orbsycli]

Like what?

[Magnet Man]

orbsycli said:

Like what?

Normally one draws up architectual plans and then buys the relevant materials and builds. Working with recycled materials forces one to work in reverse and build around what is available. This entails endless improvisation, which in turn reveals novel solutions that money cannot buy and schools do not teach.
For instance: Without the money to pour massive cement foundations, it forced me to realize that the silt on the dry lake bed was a firm enough foundation in itself. This proved true. A series of stone arches, stretching two hundred feet down one side of the building and supporting the veranda roof, weighing several hundred tons, have not been displaced by one milimeter, even though they were built directly on the sand. A large tiled patio has been laid on barely a half inch cement base, again with no cracks.

Digging a large basement and plastering it with a thin layer of cement, has doubled the house size and, via the stairwell, provideds year round air conditioning for the rest of the house. (Earth temp is a constant 55% F.)

Stone and mud buildings this size in an earthquake zone need special steel reinforcing. No steel made me realize that the accumulation of 80 feet of silt on the forty mile-long dry lakebed. acted as a water-proof plug ontop of the water-table and would neither liquify or crack during a prolonged shake, but simply swish back and forth and stay level. This has also proved true so far, without any reinforcing there are no cracks in the walls.

Also, dressing wood beams with granite tiles to make stone arches. Finding out that cement adheres stongely enough to adobe to dress the face of the buildings with with field stone slabs. Lots of little improvasional things like that which add up and which would not have happened otherwise.

[orbsycli]

I don't even know what to say,
Tho I can barely fathom your achetectural composition,
sounds like it's flowing beautifully, to me.

[piper]

orbsycli said:

Improvisation is understanding,
combined with transcending
Anybody else here improvise anything??
It's the weirdest ability. .

[piper]

orbsycli said:

Improvisation is understanding,
combined with transcending


Anybody else here improvise anything??
It's the weirdest ability. .

I have found that poverty can make one improvise alot. If you have everything at your fingertips you just use things. I learned early on that without money I had to learn to be more creative. Once you are stuck inside the box it is very hard to get out of it. But if you watch life you see that the ones who improvise and have the courage to step outside of artificial constructs are the ones we admire most. On the other hand I believe that through learning a discipline and mastering it can also bring the ability to improvise to the forefront of consciousness.

[Trivium515]

I also have found that if you really have to work hard for something you appreciate whatever it may be a hundred times more than if it were simply handed to you.
And also, you take care of the things you had to work for, I personally find that the things I cherish most are the things that didn’t come easy…

[soulatom]

quicksilver said:

And also, you take care of the things you had to work for, I personally find that the things I cherish most are the things that didn’t come easy…

Sometimes I have found you can work at something and work at something and zip...empty...nothing....you can give up and decide that it just isn't happening, but then you can go through that area and take a leap of faith, stop doing it with the idea in mind that something will happen and then bam, something clicks and something magical happens something you didn't even think could happen....I wonder why we are so quick to rob ourselves by giving up on a creation? I mean what else is there to do?

[soulatom]

Hey Quicksilver..love the avatar but see if you can make it bigger its a little hard to see!