Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949)[1][2][3] is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. (wikipedia)
There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?
I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with.