**Links to**: [[Metalearning]], [[Song]], [[002.1 Modulations]], [[Noise]], [[Samuel Beckett]], [[Refrain]], [[Rifference and Depetition]], [[Jazz]]. > “... there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, **together with the obligation to express**.” > [[Gary Peters]] in “[[Improvising Improvisation]]”, 2009, our emphasis. This obligation is witness to the radical importance of [[Collective intentionality]]. Without it, who are we improvising for? If we are improvising a hut in the woods, alone, we still want ourselves to survive.