Sunday, January 19, 2014

Classical Improv?

There’s a (cover version of a) song (“Dream Lover”) by a punk rock group (The Plasmatics), where they proudly state on the album that for the solo section, the musicians were separated so that they couldn’t hear what each other were playing, and they mixed that together for that extra unlistenable experience. And I always used to think, after hearing this for the first time as a child: “Hey, they should do a whole orchestra like this!” And they could call it “Classical Improv”.