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Improvisation to me is something that some people are very fearful of when they think about going up and just speaking on the fly, but in actuality, you're doing it all the time. Um a conversation that you're having with a friend is improvisation, uh unless it's scripted and that would be a weird friendship, but I suppose those do exist. So, I've been dealing with improvisation all of my life. Uh I It's hard for me to write things down. Ted was so gracious to allow me to come up here on the stage when they keep asking, uh "Can we see that uh script? " And I was like, "I'm sorry, I don't have that. " Um but after I perform it, then you'll have that. Um So, I'd like to show you an element of improvisation, and I'm going to start by doing something like this. Now, because this is looping, it gives me time to think about what I want to do next. So, I think I'll probably add Who knows? Maybe a bass-like thing. Let's see if I can remember what a bass looks like. Okay, now that'll tell me what it sounds like. Now, maybe I'd like to subdivide. And then I might just stop. So, improvisation is something that I love very much because it is the center of existence to me. And for me, uh that allows me to reformat any situation at any given time. Cuz I do think about situations where you might feel imprisoned uh in some way. You always have your mind, and you can always recontextualize anything at any given time.