We encouraged him to improvise.

There's the improvisational side of jazz.

The MC would improvise lyrics in the same way that the jazz players would improvise melodies.

So now I have to improvise again.

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They are acting in the sense that they're emulating the original mashup.

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It's really a remarkable, awesome thing that happens there.

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So the bands started to improvise new melodies.

And I think that's sort of the point of Improv Everywhere.

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

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And over here there's a golf course going in.

You can go to a concert and hear guitars jamming.

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A wise person knows when to improvise.

And in fact, I want to do a little something improvisational for you here.

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Were they in fact just playing a lot more notes when they were improvising?

I started Improv Everywhere about 10 years ago when I moved to New York City with an interest in acting and comedy.

In other words, it's kind of random, kind of ad hoc, how we figure out what we should do.

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

I started with improvisation, in a particular form of improvisation called theater games, which had one rule, which I always thought was a great rule for an ethic for a society.

Now improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown.

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

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.

But too many rules prevent accomplished jazz musicians from improvising.

Mediation and improvisation also assume a special place in this new pantheon.

Bach was like a great improviser with a mind of a chess master.

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

And he'll improvise entire concerts off the top of his head, and he'll never play it exactly the same way again, and so, as a form of intense creativity, I think this is a great example.

And that's actually what drew me to the Mola in the first place, was this terribly bizarre shape.

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What I will do is probably make a few off the cuff comments on the debate that has gone on so far, rather than read a written statement.

And most important, a wise person does this improvising and rule bending in the service of the right aims.

They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising.

The next artist is Kay Overstry, and she's interested in ephemerality and transience.

So I'd say over the years, one of the most common criticisms I see of Improv Everywhere left anonymously on YouTube comments is These people have too much time on their hands.

And then, as if by magic, they will spontaneously improvise a load of harmony around that tune because they can.

They don't know what's coming, but they'll hear something off the cuff.

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