Improvised Music - Essays And Interviews by Jakob Thorkild Overgaard. From the preface: This book is the child of my extensive personal experienceas performer of musical improvisation. I havea large number of concerts recordings and bands inmy baggage and throughout my career as performerI have reflected much on the music as such its origins and its effects on performer and listener alike.In addition to this my M.A. in Music from CopenhagenUniversity provided me with a theoretical foundationwhich has sharpened my reflections on musicand fostered an interest inthe spoken word.As its point of departure this book will attempt a discussionof improvised music after 1968 as a conceptand as an actual performing art. I shall use the terms‘free improvisation’ or ’ freely improvised music’ – as Ithink that they are the best although I am of coursefully aware that there may be several other adequateterms for this music... ...There are sections solely based on my views and analyses as well as sections taking their starting point in the views of other writers and artists. Besides the book contains interviews and communications with prominent performers of improvised music and theorists such as inter alia Danish Peter Ole Jørgensen Swedish Raymond Strid Danish Vagn E. Olsson and Torben Sangild Postdoc at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies Copenhagen University.
