The sessions, Mr. Martine said, were recorded to 16-track tape — not the infinite number of infinitely changeable tracks available with digital recording — and the vocal and instrumental sounds were not always isolated, making them impossible to tweak.
Like its feeble competitors, however, Jacobson's book is infinitely changeable.
Instead of printed volumes, manuals are now usually PDFs or downloadable templates, instantly distributed and infinitely changeable, to suit the current preference for regular "brand refreshes".
Meanwhile the long-haired saxophonist Michael Lewis just blows and blows, a jazz musician in love with long-form improvising and the infinitely changeable melody.
This all seems belt, braces, sun cream and brolly stuff, choice but no choice – an infinitely changeable forecast, with a chance of raining on your parade.
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (Penguin) shows us that at last neuroscience has caught up with what mystics and meditation have taught for centuries - the brain is infinitely changeable.
