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improvise verb adept, ad-lib, compose, concoct, devise, extemporize, fabricate, invent, invent offhand, make up, originate, play by ear, ride with the waves, utilize, without preparation See also: compose, conjure, contrive, create, devise, invent, make, originate, scheme How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Adherence to this conception of time fuels both the patron's desire to "blot out" time and the narrator's aspiration to fix the improvisatory and collective musical practices he encounters in the South within the framework of a narrowly conceived classical form. She calls this improvisatory state "open attention," and the whole experience a "dive" because the mover travels beneath the surface of known movement. The Combines' extreme messiness and improvisatory construction probably gave them an aged quality even then, but the artist's emphatically nonarchival approach to materials assured a literal aging and fading that impart an autumnal glow reverberating strangely with the anarchic aggressiveness of the individual works. |
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