Creativity is improvisation when it all goes wrong
Wednesday, 28 Nov 2012, 17:08
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 28 Nov 2012, 17:12
Fig. 1. Edmund de Waal - Ceramics and Creative Writing
In discussion on Desert Island Discs this week. Some marvellous insights into his take on the creative process - the confidence to make it up if it all goes wrong, as Ella Fitzgerald does in the particular track he chooses of her singing Mack the Knife and forgetting the words.
'This is making it up as you go along. This matters to me because this is what the experience of making things is like. That’s improvisation. That’s when when you think you’ve got it made before you start. And then … it all goes … it doesn’t go wrong - it goes different'.
Creativity is improvisation when it all goes wrong
Fig. 1. Edmund de Waal - Ceramics and Creative Writing
In discussion on Desert Island Discs this week. Some marvellous insights into his take on the creative process - the confidence to make it up if it all goes wrong, as Ella Fitzgerald does in the particular track he chooses of her singing Mack the Knife and forgetting the words.
Edmund de Waal
Desert Island Discs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01p067p
Sunday 25th November 2012
'This is making it up as you go along. This matters to me because this is what the experience of making things is like. That’s improvisation. That’s when when you think you’ve got it made before you start. And then … it all goes … it doesn’t go wrong - it goes different'.