The Body Between Us: Surfing Music’s Emergent Body

<p>One of the weirdest, most confounding aspects of music is playing with other people. It&rsquo;s quite mysterious as each person plays their individual instruments in accordance with something that lives between them all &mdash; melody, rhythm, tone, groove that, taken together, becomes something new: a song with its own logic, its own demands, it own way of going.</p> <p>So you pick up your bass. The drummers are playing their part; the guitarists, theirs. And you: how do you the know that when you hit that next note, it will fit with all the other parts? It&rsquo;s seems like a decision you have to make over and over, in split seconds.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/reading-the-way-of-things/the-body-between-us-surfing-musics-emergent-body-e52aa64dcf9e"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>
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