{"id":14494,"date":"2024-10-12T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14494"},"modified":"2025-04-08T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T08:55:25","slug":"improv2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2024\/10\/12\/improv2\/","title":{"rendered":"improv2: wooten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

previous: improv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

while helping my ~1yo son go to sleep I was clicking around on YouTube and I ended up watching a rick beato interview with Victor Wooten and they talked about improvisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think there are broadly two kinds of improvisation, and they rhyme with finite and infinite games- improvising within a frame and improvising with frames entirely<\/p>\n\n\n\n

one of the reasons I post so infrequently on here (by my own measure) is that I\u2019m thinking about how to improvise with the frame itself of the essay. that\u2019s half the story. Theoretically speaking, there\u2019s no reason why messing with frames is something that should take more time than messing within a frame. In practice, I think it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been emotionally flinching from the idea of getting bad or mediocre results. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve written about this on here several times already in a few different ways. There\u2019s a predictable cycle that happens, where I ruminate in my mind, or in sketches that I don\u2019t publish, and then eventually I write something that\u2019s sort of an apology for not having anything good to show yet. I feel like this is me apologizing to myself more than anybody else in particular. But as I lay it out like this now, I can see quite clearly that this premature judgement is an impediment to the experimentation I want to be doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m writing this particular piece of writing in my notes app on my phone. I don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going. I\u2019m holding an intention of, \u201cit\u2019s the feeling that really matters. It\u2019s feeling that should guide the process,\u201d thanks to Wooten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

well, what am I feeling? some excitement, some frustration, some intimidation. I feel like I\u2019ve figured out what I want to write about, but as always, I\u2019m nervous that it\u2019s not going to be good. Well what if I wrote it badly on purpose? I don\u2019t really want to do that\u2026 but maybe that\u2019s what I should do? My feeling is that I should try something that approaches it, something in the vicinity of the thing I want to be doing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I\u2019m tempted to go check Instagram or twitter to distract myself from this, but I caught myself and returned. What would be something that approaches the thing I want to do? Well, I could write about Back To The Future, or Rick and Morty. Or I could continue that hypertext thing I started yesterday. Let\u2019s go with that since I have my baby on me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before I learned about Google, I used to set yahoo.com as my homepage on my browser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I got my own personal website, one of the things I was excited to do was to link to other sites that I liked to visit- typically video game forums and \u201cshrines\u201d. I was reminded of this when watching Inception recently – in cobb and mal\u2019s shared dreamworld, they\u2019d assemble all of their past homes in the same \u201cneighborhood\u201d, such that you could walk past several of your childhood homes on the same street. I was struck by hypertext allows us to do something similar online. We can link to all of our favorite things. We can also effortlessly make and share copies of pretty much any media. This is a kind of magic I was inspired by as a child and continue to be inspired by even now as an adult. How amazing is it that you can just look anything at anytime, and actually find it near instantly, and play it instantly too? This is particularly striking to me in the domain of music. Suppose you wanted to listen to a song from each genre for the past 50 years. This might\u2019ve taken weeks of effort 20 years ago, it might\u2019ve been literally impossible at some point in time. But now it takes seconds, and it\u2019s basically free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which brings us I suppose to questions about information overload. I think some of us who grew up as Netscape navigators and Internet Explorers maybe have an easier time with it, because maybe we cultivated some skills that we didn\u2019t particularly do consciously. The Internet is not a \u201cnatural\u201d place. Bruce Sterling described it as a funhouse mirror\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

previous: improv while helping my ~1yo son go to sleep I was clicking around on YouTube and I ended up watching a rick beato interview with Victor Wooten and they talked about improvisation I think there are broadly two kinds of improvisation, and they rhyme with finite and infinite games-… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-improv2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14737,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions\/14737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}