Pateras, too, is constantly on the move, touring with various bands and improvisational groups, writing concert works for orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and running the text and music project, Immediata.
Within a short time he was acting in improvisational groups and writing monologues for his own performance pieces.
There's something improvisational about jazz, and you're improvising as you're writing.
Karl Hyde and Rick Smith remain obsessed with experimentation – whether working on art and design projects as part of the Tomato collective, Hyde's role in Brian Eno's improvisational "supergroup" Pure Scenius, or writing movie scores for the late Anthony Minghella (Breaking and Entering).
I thought, 'How hard can a course in radio/TV be?' (laughs) So initially I was looking for an easy way out, then found I really liked radio and television, which evolved to working at local stations, then to me moving out west to study acting, which led to improvisational work, which led to writing.
Its members rotate in and out of a quarterly production schedule, acting, writing, directing and presenting improvisational comedy the way it has been performed here for over 40 years.
I think that part of the tradition of writing for a jazz improvisational context is that you don't want to necessarily define every aspect.
Writing loquacious, freeform short plays that mimicked the improvisational structure of the music, Shepard was lauded by Edward Albee and became the new crown prince of the avant garde.
Bennett is currently writing a mystery novel, acting with her husband in their improvisational theater company, and running the writers' program at her local library.
In writing about this period in his memoir, Adler mentions attending and admiring performances by Israel Grodner, a Brody singer and improvisational actor who would soon become one of the founders of professional Yiddish theater.
"When they could have done solo projects of improvisational music, they chose to write songs and sing".
