‘For many, the improvised musical performance serves to create- in the midst of hierarchical social relations- a utopian space, a genuinely democratic realm full of cooperation, coexistence, and intersubjective exchange. Without established musical or social props, everything is held together by these intersubjective relationships that are as strong and as fragile as a spider’s web, and, as such, constantly under construction and repair.’
-Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, p.251-252.
