questionnaire

 Alessandro Bosetti
 Alfredo Costa Monteiro
 Andrew Drury
 Axel Dörner
 Bechir Saade
 Bertrand Denzler
 Bhob Rainey
 Bonnie Jones
 Bruce Russell
 Bryan Eubanks
 Burkhard Beins
 Christian Weber
 Christof Kurzmann
 Cor Fuhler
 Dieter Kovacic (dieb13)
 Doug Theriault
 Dragos Tara   new
 eRikm
 Greg Kelley
 Günter Müller
 Heddy Boubaker
 Howard Stelzer
 Ignaz Schick
 Jason Kahn
 Jeff Gburek
 Jeph Jerman
 Jesse Kudler
 Joe Foster
 Julien Ottavi
 Kai Fagaschinski
 Lee Kwang Goh
 Liz Tonne   new
 Lucio Capece
 Mattin
 Michael Renkel
 Michel Doneda
 Reuben Radding
 Róbert Rózsa
 Robin Hayward
 Ruth Barberan
 Sharif Sehnaoui
 Thomas Ankersmit
 Tomas Korber
 Valerio Tricoli
 Will Guthrie

     In february 2007, addlimb.org started the project of e-mail questionnaire with a number of musicians/artists that we could reach, and thought that had something to say on the topic of contemporary improvised music and improvisation...

(You can browse this questionnaire by questions (by clicking on the questions below), or by interviewed artist (by clicking on the artist name on the side bar).


     There were 8 questions:

1. Have you got any formal musical training, and what do you draw from it now?

2. What kind of equipment/instrument do you use, and what is you relationship towards it? What do you think lies behind your choice of the equipment/instrument?

3. What is it that attracts you towards musical experimentation?

4. Why are you involved in improvisation, and how do you perceive it?

5. How do you perceive the relation between planning and spontaneity in improvisation?

6. Do you "practise" for an improvisation, and what are your general thoughts on the idea of "practising" for improvisation? When you improvise, do you use sounds that you've already "tried out", and how much room is there for actual sound experimentation?

7. How do you evaluate an improvisation? What is it, according to you, that makes one improvisation better than another?

8. When you are recording for a release, does the awareness of being recorded influence your playing, and in what way?


     We would like to thank all of the artists that responded to this questionnaire (and those who didn't), and excuse ourselves to those who were out of our reach at this moment...