Friday, October 26, 2007

How psychotronics works Pt. 2

The more i play the better i get. same for anything one does, or any band, i suppose.

how do bandmates intuit where a piece is going? surely jazzers have speculated about this for lifetimes. psychotronics doesn't bother- we just end up where ever we do and getting there is the fun. along the way mistakes may be made- we tolerate them, no- we embrace them. "doesn't sound right? play it again just to make sure, still no? one more time- wait, it's getting better... now that time it sounded like it belongs there... hmmm. matter of fact- i like that note there!"

this is how mistakes become "genius". now it's the audients turn- so, if we play a mistake over and over does it become the correct note? does the listener come around to accepting it or do the qualities of the note change? context is everything in this case, i s'pose.

every time psychotronics gets together to play we go through the above process countless times per minute.

Curt has used the phrase "noise management" to describe certain parts of his method. how apt.

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