Name: Why is Improvising Important: interview with Susan Alcorn
Duration: P00H37M37S
Description: This is the thirteenth interview from a 2018 series by Caroline Kraabel, initially broadcast on London's art radio station, Resonance 104.4 FM. Susan Alcorn, creative virtuoso of the pedal steel guitar, talks about her life, Country and Western music, and the many ways in which she has gone beyond genre through improvisation and composition.

Why is Improvising Important: interview with Susan Alcorn

from Why is Improvising Important? by Caroline Kraabel

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This is the thirteenth interview from a 2018 series by Caroline Kraabel, initially broadcast on London's art radio station, Resonance 104.4 FM. Susan Alcorn, creative virtuoso of the pedal steel guitar, talks about her life, Country and Western music, and the many ways in which she has gone beyond genre through improvisation and composition.

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"Maybe if you approach these noises with love, that's what transforms them into what we would call music"

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from Why is Improvising Important?, released January 23, 2019
Recorded by Caroline Kraabel; thanks to Susan Alcorn, Resonance 104.4 FM and John Edwards.

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Caroline Kraabel is an improviser in music, art, politics and life.

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