Here’s a wonderful guest post from jazz bassist Thomas Morgan on Ethan Iverson’s Substack.

Morgan draws out the connections between jazz and hacker culture:

Whatever is shared, discovered, or invented has the potential to be applied in the very same moment or soon after. With such a tight feedback loop, ideas can compound, and the music is essentially optimized for learning as much as possible every time you play.

The essay goes deep into the weeds on how Morgan created his strange digital instrument WOODS, featured on Morgan’s new album Around You is a Forest. 🎶