In 2024 I was invited by the Charles Ives Society to participate in two events: a solo lecture filmed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, where Charles Ives’s studio has been painstakingly reconstructed, and a panel discussion titled ‘Improvisation and Ives’ alongside Bill Frisell, Phil Lesh, Ethan Iverson, Jack Cooper, and David Sanford, moderated by musicologist Judith Tick. It was one of the most stimulating musical conversations I have had in years, a