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INTERVIEW: Ben Grossman

Ben Grossman, Paul Watkins

Published: 2014-06-24

ICASP researcher Paul Watkins sits down with musician, composer, and improviser Ben Grossman. They discuss Grossman’s musical influences, the hurdy gurdy, general approaches to music and aesthetics, innovative music creation, the Silence concert series and space, and building community.

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So one of the things that improvisation has come to mean in the context of highly technological performance is that improvisation is the last claim to the legitimate presence of a human in the performance of music.

– Bob Ostertag