Nick Haywood Quartet - Complexity Through Improvisation
N Haywood · eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) · 2012
Over the past thirty years Nick Haywood has become one of the most in demand bassists and educators on the Australian music scene. The purpose of Nick's PhD research is to develop a greater understanding of the conditions required to enable the improvising musician to maximise his/her potential to create successful, collaborative (in an ensemble sense) musical statements.Simple tunes are used as catalysts for spontaneous collaborative improvisations, with the complexity in the music developing from interaction and musical connectedness between the performer