Plastic [derek] Room

"There has to be some degree, not just of unfamiliarity, but incompatibility [with a partner]. Otherwise, what are you improvising for? What are you improvising with or around?You've got to find somewhere where you can work.If there are no difficulties, it seems to me that there's pretty much no point in playing. I find that the things that excite me are trying to make something work. And when it does work, it's the most fantastic thing. Maybe the most obvious analogy would be the grit that produces the pearl in an oyster,or some shit like that."

http://kargatron.net/mp3/Derek%20Bailey%20-%20My%20melancholy%20baby.mp3

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/audio/eman27a.mp3

http://efi.group.shef.ac.uk/video/vbailey1.mov

music by Derek Bailey