Markus Stockhausen
Intuitive Music for me is the most challenging and also most rewarding way of making music, because everything is decided on the spot. It goes beyond improvisation, which mostly happens in a certain expected style, on a song, on a chosen rhythm, a harmonic pattern etc. Intuitive music for me should be fresh, music of this very moment. Everything is decided right now. It demands all your musical skills, the technical and the musical qualities, your fantasy and creative spirit. As a player you need a still and open mind, and even more open ears, to perceive something beyond your personal limitations. Sometimes you play things that are new even to yourself, that otherwise could have never been composed or imagined.
My ideal is a music which is beyond all stylistic directions, but which denies none. This is the only way to allow intuition to be really free, and to produce a music which takes all circumstances into account – the acoustics and quality of the space, the time of day, the listeners present, the momentary inspiration -, and thus gives the musician the greatest possible freedom of expression. And my target is an integrated music which above all can touch people and their feelings, give their fantasy wings, lift them.