WHAT’S UP? MUSICIANS’ UPDATE #8

How is everybody doing in these anonymous and isolated times, without performances? A small tour along the (Amsterdam) improvised music scene to find out.

Alistair Payne (trumpet)

How do you feel?
I feel less. As if the range and spectrum of emotions has narrowed into fairly hungry & quite sleepy. I’m not particularly sad, or particularly happy. I’m just in a constant state of nostalgia.

How do you stay inspired?
To be honest I don’t. I rely more on the routine of going to practice, like eating your greens. Usually my colleagues and the stage keep a state of inspiration, or at least provides the deadline to make stuff happen. Without it (or them), inspiration is sparse for me. I have, however, made my peace with this knowing that it will be our time again.

Describe in 1 word or sound what it will be like for you when you can perform live with an audience again.

LOUD