Jacob Collier describes the different values he and Ben Bloomberg have regarding control and risk in their creative collaboration, emphasizing the balance between precision and experimentation.
I guess I could tell, just one thing from my perspective on that, would be that I think Ben and I have different kind of values, the different – different experiential values of control, and when control is necessary. And you know, so I know for example that when it comes to precision of musical information, I’m quite – I’m quite controlled because I kind of tend to know the highest resolution position for this note to be for it to mean the most in the groove for example. And I think less about you know things like – you know is this flow – is the flowchart from the element to this element within the tech going to work every night in a way that means I can – that we can all have a good time? And I guess that means that there are elements of the tech which I’m stretching from my perspective, and absolutely the same in reverse, where you know – Ben for example will be very, very risk aware in some scenarios, but then will also highly encourage me to jump off my own creative rails in a musical sense and try new stuff the whole time, you know. And I think if there’s one thing that comes from making music in one room for ten years and then going on the road, having never done a gig, you know, I don’t tend to think about imperfections being great. You know, I tend to think about imperfections that aren’t to plan being things that I will kind of want to correct and make sure that they are right.