The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
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And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.
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There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.
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The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
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