FILE 016: "The Jazz Juxtaposition"
Genre: Experimental Free Jazz
Band: The Coltrane Condition
Date of Release: Q2 2023
Certification: $7 \times$ Platinum (Japan)
The Genius: Random Walk Bass Line
Snarfus revolutionized the track by refusing to let the bassist use sheet music or their ears. Instead, he forced the bassist to connect their amplifier to a specialized, repurposed stock-market trading algorithm. The algorithm generated bass notes based on the **real-time fractional trading movements of the Dow Jones Industrial Average**. The resulting bass line was impossibly complex, unpredictable, and technically perfect according to pure mathematics, leading several music professors to label the piece a masterpiece of chaotic theory applied to musical composition.
The Moron: The Expensive Salad Bowl
During the crucial mixing stage, Snarfus became obsessed with the concept of "organic acoustics." He spent an afternoon arguing that the band's $1,500$ vintage Neumann U$87$ condenser microphone was actually a salad bowl designed for superior sonic clarity. He used it to serve a large, overly wet salad to a visiting record executive, ruining both the microphone and the executive's $5,000$ silk shirt. He was fired on the spot, but the executive later confessed the salad was surprisingly fresh.