Improv

Improv

Backline Inertia

July 15, 2012

1360 Views

You stand with 7 strangers on the backline. Either someone who runs the jam you’re at, or a peer with ambition, steps out and gets your one-word suggestion. They step back in line with you, and the eight (ten, including the representatives of the host team) of you stand there, digesting the suggestion. For an…

Improv

Drunk Bet

June 27, 2012

1561 Views

In my life as a professional musician, I’ve come to distrust people who tell me we need to get a scene together, because that usually means they want to form a new community, and place their own project at the center. The improv world is nothing like that. Nobody gets anywhere if everybody else doesn’t…