Played tonite with some folks over at Bryan's house--3 cellos a viola 3 guitars and a banjo that was passed around. Mainly it was people who have not played alot of freely improvised music. We maintained a "modal" thing that at first was very reminiscent of the Ole groove on that Coltrane record of the same name. Oddly enough when I asked if that was what the cello player was refering to (he started it mommy!!!) he did not know what I was talking about and said that it was more like a Masada piece...what is post-post-modern??? I got to thinking that everything refers to everything else and with any given series of notes you are, by the very nature of our society and exposure, passing thru time and thru all the layers of information that exist in some tangential way and people (or you) will eventually see every other note in every other context but analysing it reduces what it actually references to your miniscule personal experience of references...like all music is an infinitely sided prism (globe?) that reflects the light/sound in all directions at once but reflects something different when you are actually looking at it....I WANT A QUANTUM GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!

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