Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
Derek Baileywas an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth29 January 1930
music children skills
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.
english-musician found people using
I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.
destroy difficult good matter quality recording
It's difficult to destroy a good concert. The quality of the recording doesn't matter if it's a really good concert.
musicians playing
I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.
english-musician except familiar internal method shock
I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.
although company concert english-musician knew quartet single together
The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.
way company stills
For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
moving people way
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
kind found areas
Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.
thinking stuff electronics
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
research
I don't research anything.
studios
Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
murder concerts solo
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
people kind sometimes
Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.