Bzw. ۲ ۴ ۱ [»You Don't Know Why« for Alto Saxophone, Flute and Piano (1995), R. A. ol-Omoum. - Dedicated to Roscoe Mitchell & the AACM]

["Black Saint #23", Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis]

 It was only for kicks cracks and flacks

          plicks and placks and plickers

Lackplacker Lackplicker

loundwadtti Daago

Nickers flickers lackpicker

                     Kicks flicks plack and ack lackflacmac

ack ack macflacklack

 Concladoso Oselacon Seaco

Decoula Seaco Coonclaso

oolinoundnighhentti

            ooo―――tti nigoundhheintti

ouncladose lacontti

  ooo―――oun―――tay

[Roscoe Mitchell]

["Black Saint #19", Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis]

May the past, present, and future be ever before us as one. [Muhal Richard Abrams]

I think the best thing you can teach a person is how to learn. And once they discover their own individual approach to that - which is inside all of us - then all of a sudden, they've opened up a door of endless resources. [Roscoe Mitchell]

What I'm after is a composed music that will sound like improvised music when improvisors play it. You shouldn't be able to tell what parts are being improvised and what parts were written out beforehand; it should sound like the same music. [Roscoe Mitchell]

["Black Saint #20", Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis]

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that. [Roscoe Mitchell]

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. [Anthony Braxton]

["Black Saint #22", Lorena Kirk-Giannoulis]

A piece of improvisation is done, and after it's done, there's nothing to be said about it because it affects your life whether you like it or not. [Leo Smith]

Words

Arbitrage

Novella

Protagonist

Impute

Parsimonious

Gainsay

Locus

Congeries

Ambience

Exponential

Verbose

Nemesis

Ipsofacto

Tabula rasa

Vicissitude

Ebullience

Enervate

Canto

Synergism

Bemuse

[Roscoe Mitchell]

The phenomenon of sound, whether natural or when produced by the formal process of structuring music, where creative individuals improvise and/or write music in order to organize sound from a particular point of view, has always fascinated me. As a musician and observer, I am constantly stimulated and educated by the variety of activities that take place in the incredible world of sound. [Muhal Richard Abrams]