Oliver Schwerdt. Photograph by Christian Hüller

1. What’s your best pleasure in improvised music?

   
   Since I’m not solely an improvising artist the unequalled pleasure I acquire in
   improvised music sums up to a triadically dimensioned pleasure: whereas
   selecting the artists for the following ensemble I already benefit from the music we supposedly are going to appreciate all through activating my sonic creativeness,
   whereas on stage I benefit from the feeling of the huge freedom of speech primarily based on
   the chosen private vocabulary and materials that wants instantaneously to
   be activated throughout the thrill of situational concretization through the
   precise energized speaking streams of exploring interaction, whereas
   experiencing the captured sonic doc afterwards I get pleasure from actually
   focusing a scenic creativeness.

2. What high quality do you most admire within the musicians you carry out with?

   Inside an important factor of reliability within the private fashion of the
   collaborators, I like their capacity to react and act with surprisingly
   and convincing statements and their capacity to contribute to a foreground
   of a solo passage with properly supportive accompaniment. Generally the
   best magnificence happens when guys like Christian Lillinger and Child Sommer
   select a minimalistic means in accompanying or when a man like Peter
   Brötzmann steps again to let his co-workers explode in the absence of his
   line.

3. Which historic musician/composer do you admire essentially the most?

   Frank Zappa, the inventor of
   
   Läther
   
   : the frappant conceptional i.e. partially humorous version of a number of
   musical types.

4. If you happen to may resurrect a musician to carry out with, who would it not be?

   I’m a giant fan of resurrection. With none doubt by way of necessity I
   must resurrect Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, as a result of there’s nothing
   that may full the dynamic musicality realized by my very important duo interaction
   with Lillinger than his energetic altissimo. However, in exploiting the
   phantastique dimension of the query extra significantly: Let’s take Peter
   Kowald, who died in the 12 months I invited Child Sommer for the primary time: I
   can hear him in a crunchy quartet with an earlier state of Anthony Braxton
   and Child Sommer, additionally I can hear his type of mystic tone in a single of my
   legendary doubled double bass quintets with Tomasz Stanko, who, as we know,
   died, within the 12 months I have already got been speaking to him for a participation in
   such.

5. What would you continue to like to attain musically in your life?

   I want to be requested for curating an annual week of improvising
   workshops presenting the additional improvement of my solo piano work,
   igniting some extra first-time duo-encounters and persevering with my bigger sound
   focusing ensemble works with out regarding concerning the financing on my own.
   These annual weeks ought to occur twice a 12 months, each in California, Japan
   and, after all, in Switzerland. 

6. Are you interested by standard music and – if sure – what music/artist
   do you significantly like?

   Sure, I do love the B e a t l e s. The sound of the primary album of the F o
   o F i g h t e r s units me into heaven in addition to the music of
   Michael Haves‘ S u p e r 7 0 0.

7. If you happen to may change one factor about your self, what would it not be?
   
   Oh, that’s humorous: Since I’m king of myself, I can change every part.
8. Which of your albums are you most pleased with?

   The trio album with Child Sommer and Barry Man known as
   
   One For My Child And One Extra For The Bass
   
   .

9. As soon as an album of yours is launched, do you nonetheless take heed to it? And
   how usually?

   Sure, I do, once I maintain the ultimate file in my fingers, it’s like listening to
   the music for the primary time. I can’t change something anymore, so, with out
   any productional ideas, I can actually take heed to the music. On common
   let’s say I take heed to each file each 5 years as soon as or twice.

10. Which album (from any musician) have you ever listened to essentially the most in
    your life?

    Most likely Form of Blue. However principally I select Alexander von
    Schlippenbach‘s Twelve Tone Tales and C i r c l e ‘ s
    
    Paris-Live performance
    
    to encourage me when I’m making ready an upcoming live performance.

11. What are you listening to for the time being?

    Driving the automobile, Pat Metheny’s American Storage.

12. What artist exterior music conjures up you?
    
    Kliff Lanzarote, the girlfriend of Friedrich Kettlitz‘ sister Sirina
    Lipett-Buff.

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