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Icp Orchestra
As the name implies, everyone involved shares credit. Let us share a short story before starting off with the writing about the ICP orchestra. Two different people gave a description on the word improvisation.
Both the chaps had different meanings after all every body is a thinking individual who speaks readily about what he / she think of about a particular thing. It all started when a guitarist of the 1950s used the term instant composition to describe improvising.
After a span of few years, Misha Mengelberg, un aware of an earlier meaning, gave his version and it stuck. A quiet manifesto, those two English words countered notions that improvising was either a lesser order of music-making than composing, or an art without a memory, existing only in the moment, unmindful of form.
And since majority is authority, Mishas version attracted people towards him. Even though the story ends here, it starts a whole new series of things involved in the music industry.
Though Mishas version was focused upon, but according to him he was thinking about instant coffee all this time, something that any caffeine addicted chap recognized as a sham substitute, however aggressively sold.
Hes all praised for the instant poetry that came out of the Fluxs art movement he was involved with earlier According to him the recipe to making instant poetry a instant hit was to put individual words on strips of paper, place it in a jar and shake. Years later it turned out to become a commercial novelty with words on tiny magnetic tiles you can arrange on a refrigerator door.
An intellectual in his own way, Misha was a person who was content to even think of music as play, a statement that he had given 30 years before. A Chinese proverb goes like this, Learning is like rowing main stream, not to advance is to fall back.
This proverb is so true and is also an indication how important education is in the lives of people all around no matter what profession does an individual wants to select for him and no matter how much potential that the individual possess within, only education is one tool that stays very essential to fulfil ones work.
In fact education works more like a bridge between the individual and his step towards gaining his profession. In this scientific world of today it is not very easy to surpass the element of education.
Misha Mengelberg was a star in his own right. A professional musician who would to entertain his audience not only with his witty gigs together with 2 of his partners but also with his intellectual creativeness. Mengleberg happens to be one of the gems the music industry could have. It was Mengleberg who had brought in a whole new paradigm in making people notice such personalities as of him and gained appreciation from the public at large.
Misha has come a long way and has contributed passionately to the world of music, the proof being is immense popularity in the music industry which it self is an achievement and encouragement to strive again with showing more of his innovative work and guiding a lot of amateurs who want to follow in his footsteps.
After long learning journey, Misha eventually thought of becoming a pied piper who would act as a leader and take in as many youngsters to walk in the same path. Aiming high has always been a desire for people who start off from scratch. Similar is the case with this artist who tends to attract attention of the music lovers towards the music world.
And this is especially said for the amateur musicians who tend to mark their name in the music industry. They gain a lot of learning and encouragement via the academies opened in their respective cities.
Anything is needless if no effort is made to try and reach their desired goal, even if it means to meet their inspiration in witty gigs or music at large for that matter.
Improvising music is not everybodys cup of tea, one needs to know about how to start upon with it. Not everyone gets the chance of doing so as Mengelberg and his partner got. They both put together ad hoc groups to improvise music with a shifting foundation.
They were already interested in the big picture and not just the improvised moment, or the shape of a piece or set or entire evening, but in how the ways people deal with each other off stage help shape the music.
In short, both had the mutual concept of knowing about human psyche and that behavior towards others as they both were God gifted in getting to know more about people by their attitudes and actions both.