And that's a short chronology of The Hp Show for the first two years. It ran altogether for about seven years with a couple of breaks. When HP began working together we each did everthing. I don't recall ever actually talking about rules or systems we should follow. Rather the regular and constant audio improvisations we got involved in on air necessitated such an enveloping undestanding of each other's minds, abilities, weaknesses and strengths that our off air working system was virtually just a slower version of what we did on the air. Which is not to say that things always went smoothly. I was always at some odds to looking at the show as necessarily being art. Art, of itself, has always been something of questionable value to me. It's need to be continually redefining itself and it's function to suit the situation, it's encompassing of expression and emotion beyond the requirements of searching for truth. to me seemed a bit frivolous. |