Rich Seymour's stochastic statements.

I would have to say one thing mainly… improvisational experimental, avant-garde music. John Zorn just got a MacArthur grant, which is to say there will probably be even more experimental music out there than ever before. For some reason the roots of improv Jazz run so deep in NYC that the far out stuff you see there is almost always being performed by seasoned veterans as opposed to youths obsessed more with loudness than anything. I still remember catching Cecil Taylor and Thurston Moore at the Cooler or honestly a million other acts there or at tonic or the knitting factory.

So there, I said it, that’s what I miss about New York the most. I guess I feel guilty about not specifically searching out improv experimental stuff here in LA perhaps for fear that I would find something that would compete with the clubs (often free) in NYC.