Unrestrained by your prejudgments, your taste for consonance and dissonance shifts back and forth like the desire for hot and cold. What feels better after playing in the snow all day than a warm fire and some hot chocolate? But after sweating awhile and removing more and more clothes, doesn’t going out into the cold air sound appealing? In the same way you would fluctuate between consonance and dissonance. After a period of playing ”inside” the changes or chords of a tune, my ears delight in the sound of playing ”outside” the changes. But as soon as I feel the responsibility to ”play out,”
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