What intrigues me about music making is the unique possibility of changing the basic parameters at the core of the musical practice. In real time. It goes beyond genre politics or audience expectation, and certainly beyond most of what I read from reviews of music. It starts with me as a listener: all the musicians that I really admire have this in common, that they are actual innovators that have found a place in the collective for their personalities, their singular expressions. A great musician does not play a solo or accompany a soloist, a great musician creates a new genre when performing, a genre for and to themselves.