This text examines the main differences in approaching the role of interpreters in the realization of two different game proposals. Therefore, some works of John Cage and practices of groups active in the free improvisation music are compared, especially the group Akronon (to which the author of this article is a member). It is demonstrated that Cage's proposals, which are located in a conceptual plan and the proposals of free improvisation, which depart from a practice based on experimental interactive empirical manipulation of the sounds, result in very different conceptions about the role of interpreter. From this perspective, the vital and dynamic nature of free improvisation is stated, which can be conceived as a sort of ideal game according to a concept proposed by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze.
John Cage; free improvisation; game; music performance; creative processes; indeterminacy and chance