Tom improvised.

There's the improvisational side of jazz.

34b (1957) Hamlet Improvisation for large orchestra, Op.

But improvisation is simply unsustainable in the long run.

Instead, I'd like to try something called improvisation.

Now when I think about improvisation and the language, well what's next?

He enrolled in The Second City Toronto and took improvisation classes.

I'm going to show you a clip now of the very first improvisation session that we had.

Now inspired moves of improvisation could be recorded, saved, considered, prioritized, made into intricate designs.

BeatJazz is 1. Live looping, 2. Jazz improvisation And 3. Gestural sound design.

So we basically copied the format of the comic book to actually tell the stories of behind the scenes, how our projects actually evolve through adaptation and improvisation.

Because we now have new methods that can enable us to take this process of something like this, complex jazz improvisation, and study it rigorously.

And then there's improvising on a scale quarter notes, metronome, right hand scientifically very safe, but musically really boring.

And there began to be a real difference at this point between the art of improvisation and the art of composition.

Now Ted entered this realm every day by improvising in a sort of Tin Pan Alley style like this.

During this period he was also teaching musical theory and improvisation at the Jaques Dalcroze Institute, and chamber music at the Geneva Conservatory.

Unlike their past work, Sylvian decided to use methods of improvisation like those he explored in his work with Holger Czukay.

Rather than revolution, we're much more interested in evolution, this idea that things gradually evolve by adapting and improvising to the changes of the world.

And what I'd like to do now, in an act of warp speed storytelling, is tell the story of how two projects evolved by adapting and improvising to the happenstance of the world.

The first is the status quo which would entail cobbling together responses to future mini crises as they arise, following the pattern of the past few years.

And what we see, we do see language areas lighting up, but then eyes closed when you are free styling versus memorizing, you've got major visual areas lighting up.

The culture in which we live now is awash with music of improvisation that's been sliced, diced, layered and, God knows, distributed and sold.

The supporting cast includes actors known for their improv work Angela Kinsey, Kate Flannery, Oscar Nunez, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Melora Hardin, and David Denman.

While one reviewer savaged the novel as the irritating noodlings of a teen age sociologist , a more sympathetic reviewer thought it funny and offhandedly brilliant .

I was the better at improvisation, You were the better at spinning the plates I was the better at procrastination, You were the better at quiet debate.

And this video is a video of Keith Jarrett, who's a well known jazz improviser and probably the most well known, iconic example of someone who takes improvisation to a really higher level.

So once he gets to that point of beginning to create, like Jennifer did in her improvisation, a new reality that is, a moment of ecstasy he enters that different reality.

What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don't react to them appropriately.

As I started taking improv class at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and meeting other creative people and other performers and comedians, I started amassing a mailing list of people who wanted to do these types of projects.

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai, the once swaggering, media savvy former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief of Chongqing, veered anomalously into improvisation.

SB Well, I think the only way I know to do it is to have accumulated the advisers that I have who go from practitioners who can establish through improvisational play or clowning or whatever a state of play.

Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out. What he and his team found has deep implications for our understanding of creativity of all kinds.

Usman Riaz is a 21 year old whiz at the percussive guitar, a style he learned to play by watching his heroes on YouTube. The TED Fellow plays onstage at TEDGlobal 2012 followed by a jawdropping solo from the master of percussive guitar, Preston Reed. And watch these two guitarists take on a very spur of the moment improv.

The landslides resulted in extensive damage and shed light on the local and central government's lack of emergency response and planning in a known vulnerable disaster zone. Chosica's Mayor, Luis Bueno, who has been in office for 20 years, was criticised for allowing houses to be built in disaster prone areas, and for not taking the necessary measures to minimize damage caused by landslides, year after year.