[up until now, Salieri has been listening to their explanations quietly, processing, thinking...
But then Discord draws that symbol on the board ("Chaos isn't focused,") and the SQUIP mentions something familiar ("-a brute force attack-") and somehow, he can see the pieces of the puzzle coming together, directed--]
We don't need to brute force anything. In fact, doing so would be completely detrimental and useless.
What we need to be able to do is convince reality that it wants to go where we want it to go. [he's got one arm still folded, while the other has unthinkingly raised his hand a bit above that folded arm, and that hand is now conducting a very small 4/4 measure in the air a bit above his elbow, over and over again]
For example, if reality is in 4/4--[and his motion with the hand become a little more obvious] --then perhaps we can coax it into an 8/8 meter, because they're similar, just doubled--[and the movements of his hand become more elaborate--8 beats instead of 4]--then that could easily lead into an off-beat 5/8--[the beats change once again--more sharp, off balanced]--to a 6/8--[the beats smooth, though the handmotion becomes more flowing, with a slight twist in there, a curling of his hand and a flick of his wrist]--to even a waltz in 3/4. [and now just one sweeping motion of his hand, up-down, up-down, all three beats contained in that one movement--
And then he looks up, back at the board, as if snapping out of a reverie]
That's how we guide it. That's how we guide the music and the story. By being able to change it to something different on a dime--coax it, direct it, but not force it.
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But then Discord draws that symbol on the board ("Chaos isn't focused,") and the SQUIP mentions something familiar ("-a brute force attack-") and somehow, he can see the pieces of the puzzle coming together, directed--]
We don't need to brute force anything. In fact, doing so would be completely detrimental and useless.
What we need to be able to do is convince reality that it wants to go where we want it to go. [he's got one arm still folded, while the other has unthinkingly raised his hand a bit above that folded arm, and that hand is now conducting a very small 4/4 measure in the air a bit above his elbow, over and over again]
For example, if reality is in 4/4--[and his motion with the hand become a little more obvious] --then perhaps we can coax it into an 8/8 meter, because they're similar, just doubled--[and the movements of his hand become more elaborate--8 beats instead of 4]--then that could easily lead into an off-beat 5/8--[the beats change once again--more sharp, off balanced]--to a 6/8--[the beats smooth, though the handmotion becomes more flowing, with a slight twist in there, a curling of his hand and a flick of his wrist]--to even a waltz in 3/4. [and now just one sweeping motion of his hand, up-down, up-down, all three beats contained in that one movement--
And then he looks up, back at the board, as if snapping out of a reverie]
That's how we guide it. That's how we guide the music and the story. By being able to change it to something different on a dime--coax it, direct it, but not force it.