Live Improvisation Research #31

This performance is ongoing research as a part of my practice as an improvising musician. Live-streamed performances happen daily, (unless life intervenes) and each installment is a complete performance of approximately 10 minutes. Every performance will be entirely improvised. Musical material might surface in these performances that are parts of previous compositions, or become future compositions. I have been a practicing improvising musician for about 20 years, and have been resistant to livestreamed performance as a part of my practice, which has been inherently intimate and small-community focused. Aspects of ‘mass broadcast’ have felt opposed to the nature of my art making. I realize this is pretentious, and a sentiment when encountered in this medium, may sound defeatist. And in truth, I think this live-streamed performance experiment has come about in reaction to the extreme dilution that music faces in 2026, and its continued devaluation by those with the most capital in our world. While it nauseates me to think that all of this material will inevitably be scrubbed by bots to train AI systems that will be packaged for sale to consumers to the detriment of their musical intelligence, it feels more powerful to me at this moment to inject musical intention into the world than to retreat. Live improvisation performance for me is an act of embodying kinesthetic empathy and compassion, and I hope it activates your life positively. Further discussion of this research and more of my work can be found on Patreon:   / successandopportunity   ♡ b