“For me, there’s a difference between improvisation and flexibility. I think with a lot of the music we play, there’s flexibility. So, you mentioned the cactus. When Eric and I play that piece, if we do a duo, we stick to the same form, but there are choices that can be made in lengths of things, or specific quarters. There’s a big form, and there’s flexibility within it. Actually, every piece we play on the show here had some kind of flexibility built in at different moments.”

“What’s funny, is that more than just world music – it’s really a lot of Americana – like a lot of American string music that I think connects this piece (‘Music for Wood and Strings’), he’s Dessner really thought about that a lot with that dulcimer feel in a different kind of harmony. I think you would connect to that too, a different kind of folk music.”