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’s quite mysterious as each person plays their individual instruments in accordance with something that lives between them all — 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’s seems like a decision you have to make over and over, in split seconds.</p>
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