----- Original Message ----- From: "ahorton" <ahorton@vt.edu>
myself, I'd rather hear an artist attempt to describe what they do in as far out and interesting a fashion as they see fit than just reduce it to the obvious mechanical aspects.
Well, that's one approach; but it seems to me that Mori (and many modern-improv artists that engage in this "exceedingly creative description" of their own work) are simply being dishonest. They're self-conscious; in a field (modern improv/jazz) that values an "intellectual", "academic", or otherwise "professor-esque" approach to one's music, they're afraid and ashamed to admit that they're simply doing what "feels right", what "comes naturally."
It's the "grant proposal" dialect. You don't get the grant unless you talk the talk.