I was sent a TED talk no mistakes on the bandstand by Philip Boxer – we reminisced about jamming. I have forward the link to colleagues, collaborators, clients.
Vibes’ player, Stefon Harris describes the bandstand as a special place, incredible and purifying, where….
- there is no chance to think about the future or the past
- there are so many decisions being made when we are here
- there is no time for projected ideas
- the idea of a mistake…I am not able to perceive what something else has done
- we question, ‘what is the idea of a bad note’…you only have to play on this palette…
- it is only a mistake because of how we reacted – is we accept his idea, it is not a mistake…
- if I dictate, if I force the music to go in a certain direction, then it sounds chaotic and I am bullying
- I listen, and I pull from something around me…gradually it builds and it builds
- when I am pulling ideas, and this allows creativity…
I don’t take it for granted – but I am sensing, ‘has the idea been taken in?’ Or in the language of innovation theory, has the idea been ‘adopted’?
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