Musings

I'm standing in front of the bathroom mirror, shaving and applying my daily moisturizer to ensure that all remains smooth and creviceless and the mind starts pondering things.

Although I am still in the final stages of one piece, I had to move onto something else for a break. I began a somewhat hypnotic piece that began with a fairly tight delayed repeating arpeggiated line running over a rumbling drone I had recorded some time ago. I was wondering throughout this how to apply what is created in a static and controlled comfy studio like environment to a more improvisational on the fly performance circumstance. There are so many directions to take with that idea and this is something I need to seriously consider.

For instance, how much is meticulously learned ver batim and then played exactly as recorded or how much is simply pre-programmed backings as so many Live PA's do? I am unable to answer this for myself as of yet. I do spend a great deal of time constructing pieces that are meant to be pretty static works on their own. How to apply them to live performance is a completely different task that I am a bit perplexed about.