In live performances, is there any element of spontaneity or improvisation, or is it all very composed beforehand?
Ken Winokur: There is very little different between our recorded corpus and our live shows. We do occasionally do an overdub; I find that if I’m going to play the clarinet and play the drums, the drums overwhelm the clarinet and I just have to put it in later, that way I can correct my mistakes. But for the most part, what you hear on a DVD or a CD is very, very similar to what we play live. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t improvisation. Our live shows involve improvisation. We write very elaborate scores; we write incredibly extensive notes about what we are doing, musical notation, storyboard; my music is basically a storyboard that tells every scene that is going on, all the major changes, and then another column has got the music that I’ve got to play. Roger has very traditional music; our scores are completely different from one another, it’s kind of funny. Roger has traditional music notation, which he is able to print out on the computer. He plays the keyboard, the comput
