Derek Bailey may refer to:
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors. . . . And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making. . . Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
I don't research anything.
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic. . . . The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone - beginners, children, and non-musicians.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.