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
thinking want way
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
playing-music theory music-is
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
player young middle
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
song duos
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
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.
murder concerts solo
Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
studios
Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.
research
I don't research anything.
thinking stuff electronics
I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.
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.
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.
way company stills
For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
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.
effect english-musician liked somebody
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.