this is my improvisation hat

i made this comment up on the spot, do i get a prize?

no?

:C

hey guys how do i do epic jazz stuff on the pianer help me now thank please

OMINPIGEONMASTER HOSTING A MAJOR IN 2025? CRAAAAAZY STUFF

waow this is cool I like to improvise (maybe too much)

how heavily improvised does it need to be?
right now I assume the rules are similar to liveplay, as the entry is fine as long as one element or track of it is improvised?

I mean, the more improvisation the better ofc, but it may be helpful to define some sort of minimal legal entry for this

so many ways to go about this EXCITING!!!

agree with kaizokufish. i wanna know what ideas of mine will work or not

this is neat! however, i think something like liveplay might have been a better format?

edit: oops! guess it was a technical error on the hosting side. fun times await!

oh shit instrument gang we out here

re: "how heavily improvised does it need to be?", the rules say "heavily improvised or at least predominantly focused on improvisation" and i don't think we can really be more specific than that - if it's in a gray area, the voters will have to decide individually for themselves, similar to other format/bitpack boundaries. i do think that if you have track elements which are not improvised then you should make a note of them in your entry description

common liveplayz W

I can really only improvise on one instrument, but I'll try to get something!

argh, if only there were more botbrs in my area... doing a full jazz band would be awesome

i hope i can bash my computer keyboard to get last place

not if I bash in your cranium first...haha just kidding...unless?

@Retrokid104 Great idea!

I wonder if you could mimic this, by doing something silly like, you do a one take improvising thing, then send it over online to another person, they try and do one take of improvising with it etc? if this sounds like something that's reasonable and you'd like to collab, hit me up on discord! (my jazz is wonky as hell, but down to clown!)

Are we meant to only use first recordings of improvisations or can we re-record an improvisation with a cleaner performance

I don't think re-recording the same thing is still improvisation personally, the spontaneity is the point. not sure if that's what you mean; I'm reading that as trying to play the same thing you played before.

recording a second improv take that launches from a similar theme though I would say is on the right side of the line, I just think it needs to be distant from "I'm deliberately trying to do what I did in the last recording"

what's the ruling on a mostly pre-composed "base" (chords, bass, drums, my rhythm section of sorts) with prominently featured soloing?

edit: just read further into jangler's post, i suppose i have my answer

Need to figure out the right converter cable to use to upload my stream of conscious into midi format on the spot, would go a long way towards getting my spontaneous ideas out without loss of authentic improvisation value.

@Icrawfish What equipment are you using/ hoping to use? if you have a keyboard with usb input, you can hopefully run it into a DAW software and use it as a midi keyboard to record it that way? both getting sound and Midi note input?

I just found this VST plugin to send midi cc messages using your mouse, this can be pretty handy for people like me who don't have a sophisticated midi keyboard with modulation wheels!
https://github.com/whoadrian/MidiPad

Note: it also works on linux if you compile it from source

@Connor Baxter I mostly said that to joke about plugging a chord into my skull, but I would genuinely like to set things up so that my basic yamaha keyboard can play midi into my daw, and even more so see if it's possible to get my EWI to behave as a midi controller, since that'd really open the door on freestyling without disturbing the apartment neighbors.

Forgive me for not believing what you speak on behalf of a self-described "sworn nemesis" of yours, but I do eagerly await OminPigeonMaster's take on my question. Your enthusiasm has not gone unappreciated.

If hearing the sludge and the slop of the moment of creation cannot be dispensed with, then by all means, #nofilter

Those EWi's look so fun, hope you can get it working nicely soon!!

I took like four takes before I landed on one I liked, and I had some ideas as a launching off point

I think the best way to do it is to just keep scrapping takes and trying stuff until you play something you like

That's a very good question Great Achievement. So good that it took me a century to respond apparently.
On this matter, I am of the same mind I think as Damifortune (nemesis of my great pigeon empire as they are) and Flaminglog.
I'd have to say that if you copied your improv from a previous take, then it would no longer be improv. Drawing from it to a degree I think is alright, but the exercise is largely about spontaneous work.
I'll try and clarify better, if that's still a bit too vague. Hoping I understood the question correctly.

the moment i get out of the hospital (im fine, its a psych ward) ill submit something, but rn hipaa says no

ill try to make it really really long but as good as i can i promise

I've been waiting for this moment （｀・ω・´）