It is sometimes difficult to put into words what genius is.
But you do feel it when you experience it.
This is Jacob Collier as he improvises with an orchestra performing with the world's first Audience Symphony Orchestra in San Francisco, a gathering of fans from all over North America, conducted by Suzie Collier. In the middle of the show, this happened - no rehearsal, no sheet music, no prior discussion.
@EricPurchase A supervisor of mine Paul Connerton, whose distilled, spare and luminous books I recommend, once advised ‘have confidence in your ideas, and express them as simply as possible’.
Obfuscation is a symptom of an empty head or insecurity or a need to play power games… or all three.