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Gonna submit a proposal to do a talk at the University of Guelph during their jazz festival. My idea is a music/language communication analogy (writing: composition, conversation: improvisation) and then say something interesting from there.
It might involve Aristotle's activity/process distinction (activity: done for its own sake, process: done for the sake of something else) since I tend to not enjoy the process of writing, but I do it because I enjoy having written something. Conversely, conversations tend not to have much end result but when they go well I get lost in them. Tie that into "I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks"-type ideas. Good writing/composition is an act of amplifying self-consciousness to make something perfect, while for good improvisation/talking you need to lose self-consciousness.
Second thought is that I tend to listen to jazz for the general mood that makes me happy, and this mood is created throughout an entire song, while I tend to listen to composed music for the moments of dramatic release that make my skin tingly.
Last thought is David Foster Wallace saying that he likes literature and writing because it covers topics that you can't talk about.
I feel like I could tie this into an overall theme of describing and distinguishing the merits of spontaneity (chrome just tried to correct that as "spontaneousness" lol) and composition.
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