{JACQUES DERRIDA INTERVIEWS ORNETTE COLEMAN, 23 JUNE 1997}
JD: I am not an "Ornette Coleman expert", but if I translate what you are doing into a domain that I know better, that of written language, the unique event that is produced only one time is nevertheless repeated in its very structure. Thus there is a repetition, in the work, that is intrinsic to the initial creation —that which compromises or complicates the concept of improvisation. Repetition is already in improvisation: thus when people want to trap you between improvisation and the pre-written, they are wrong.
OC: Repetition is as natural as the fact that the earth rotates.
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