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Either meaningless nonsense, or displays a complete ignorance of jazz. You pick.

• agumonkey 11y ago
  No fixed / hard-coded information; everything reacts adapts, is fluid, interacts with other parts. Compared to how things were done in the past it seems improvised and free. Not far from jazz.
  • stephencanon 11y ago
    My objection is the conflation of [sloppy <---> precise] with [improvised <---> specified]. In reality they're more or less orthogonal qualities; Elvin Jones, for example, is about as close to a musical equivalent of "controlling every pixel" as I can imagine.
    • agumonkey 11y ago
      I guess jazz is too fuzzy, I heard Miles Davis never played the same note twice, not sure if conscious or not. Roy Haynes says he's not a metronome and everything flows with almost no structure. All in all, it's hard to say if it's controlled or not. These guys have highly refined skills, even when they change course almost randomly, they know how to bend time and harmony, nothing is random.