Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.
Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.