I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.