Nevertheless, here goes.
It's tricky to use even terms like jazz, rock, funk, blues, or prog to describe the Improv Project. There are certainly elements of all these. The one thing Improv Project aspires to above all is freedom. Complete freedom from structure and form (except as necessary to form the backbone of more experimenting) such that musical elements are free to change at any time, whether time signature, tempo, or style. The band borrows musical quotes from everywhere. Classical, fusion, and even TV themes and show tunes can be heard: anything that might be a recognizable melody. Songs that people might recognize get played, but they may slowly mutate into their evil twin. The band sometimes juxtaposes a melody from one song on top of the form of an entirely different one just to see what happens.
Everything gets recorded and published to the internet, true to the intentions of the Crap Art Manifesto : the point being to maximize the flow of creative output, freed up from any requirements as to 'consumability,' to coin a term. We revisit the most interesting ideas, refine them, reinterpret them, and try to always keep moving forward. Generating new ideas is second only to having fun.
As a result, the Improv Project's music can get quite humorous, as more often than not, a song ends with most of the band busting out in laughter, trying to puzzle out, 'How the heck did we manage THAT?!' This kind of whimsy is a key element of the Improv Project and is what keeps the band engaged. It can be about as much fun as musicians should be allowed.
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