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# Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

**Brand:** stephen nachmanovitch
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Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art

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## Customer Reviews

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    The best
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 25, 2023*

Life-changing book. Amazing writer. Can’t recommend enough!!!

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    Excellent articulation of abstract corrollations
  

*by M***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2022*

Excellent book on an undertreated topic.Excellent articulation of abstract corrollations. At times his writing reminded me of Alan Watts.

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    Keys to Unlock your Creativity
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2013*

This book had been lying on my shelf for a few years when I finally opened it and found some wonderful advice about how to approach improvisation and composition. Having been a serious musician for over 35 years, I am pretty confident in my abilities and suffer very little anxiety when I know I will have to improvise for a crowd of people. The one thing that I have noticed--and this book addresses, is that the daily grind, the endless tasks of survival, and just the passing of time can have a negative affect on that part of me from which improvisation originates.It can be very easy to lean-on techniques and tricks that have been ingrained and become like an old pair of shoes, however the freshness and excitement of playing can suffer thus making the improvization seem "stilted" or "scripted" to the discerning ear. Reading this book illuminated all the pitfalls of trying to perform/compose while being in the wrong frame of mind and suggests zen-like ideas and games to loosen-up so the performer can be in the correct frame of mind thus allowing creativity and spontaneity to flow unimpeded, and that makes all the difference.Yesterday I had a few hours scheduled to compose/record so I re-read several chapters before I headed to the studio. Some of suggestions that I took into the studio were:1. Approach the subject material in a child-like manner like I was playing my instrument for the very first time.2. Detatch from reality as much as possible and focus upon a muse or some inspirational event. I thought about this on my way to the studio and reflected upon the spirit of joy present during a recent childrens birthday party. I focused upon how I sat watching 5 chldren running around the house, tearing up the place all the while playing with great joy and abandon. How they were always in the moment unconcerned about the past or the future. How their play had a sense of urgency and longing as though they were more aware of their mortality than the adults sitting around watching.I have to say that when I completed my work and listened back it was apparent that the message of this book is a very authentic one. The recording engineer remarked that the recording had a sense of urgency, fire, and a longing that at no time seemed stilted or forced, and that the accidents were happy accidents. I was satisfied with the session for I was able to pen the kernel of three new compositions and I look forward to getting back even more prepared to enter the correct mental zone. I was in the zone and know how to get back there when I need to.I spend a great deal of time working my technique yet it seemed that just a little of this book went a long way. If you are unaware of how to improvise or are suffering from "old pair of shoes" syndrome I am sure that a dedicated reading of this book following by some effort will pay those invaluable dividends that are found in the greatest performances/recordings. If nothing more, it will force you to evaluate your approach towards you particular art form and if you are satisfied.There is an Ambrose Bierce story about a shepherd who encountered a gorgeous woman while attending his flock. He had never seen a woman so lovely, so free, just wandering aimlessly about the countryside yet every time he tried to take hold of her she disaapeared. This kept happening and he fell into a dispondency until he happened upon a man who was wiser than he. The man pointed out that what he had encountered could not be tied down at all for it was the spirit of beauty and joy and it had to be enjoyed while it was there for it was both temporal and perenial.I can think of no better example of what I found in this book for I know that when I improvise I am fliriting with the immortal and as a mortal I found this bit of wisdom alone makes all the difference.thank you

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