mccStrange science facts: In nuclear power, functional nuclear fission reactors were constructed as early as 1942, yet nuclear fusion remains elusive and can only be achieved for short periods. In jazz, on the other hand, jazz fusion was invented in the early 70s, and jazz fission remains purely theoretical even today
John Francis@mcc we must split....the jazz.
The Queen of Weltschmerz🏳️⚧️@johnefrancis @mcc Quick! To the Large Hardbop Collider!
@rebelrebel62 @mcc start with a large complicated progressive jazz, and smash into it with some tiny high speed minimalist jazz particles
Alex Swaim
margot@mcc conclusion: jazz is way harder a practice than nuclear science
Daniil Baturin
Clifton Royston
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@mcc individual instances of jazz fusion also last a long time, based on the track lengths I'm seeing
I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!@mcc Pretty sure Steve Coleman was made a MacArthur fellow for his work in Jazz Fission.
Torb@mcc Not only was fusion there from the beginning, they did cool fusion from the get go!
Paul-Gabriel Wiener@mcc In jazz fission, it's about the atoms you don't split.
Nick Appleyard@mcc
Break it down
Break it down
Q. Edwards@mcc This joke made me angry.
Mr. Completely@mcc there's a cool jazz -> cold fusion joke in here somewhere but I'm on the clock so it will need to be left as an exercise for the reader
kechpaja@mcc Challenge accepted.
Tim Hergert@mcc addendum 1: While Jazz hands remain a popular form of social expression - Nuclear hands are like, straight up, a really super bad idea.
MacCruiskeen@mcc Legend has it that this is how jazz itself was created by Buddy Bolden in 1907. However, as it resulted in Bolden never recording and led to his being institutionalized, the experiment was never repeated.
Brian Webster
solaslux@mcc jazz fission, or jizz as I've taken to calling it, was invented in 1979 and featured in Star Wars
Carlos Solís@mcc And in Yugioh, monster fission (or De-Fusion as it's called) was invented in 2001, just two years after the game's official release. Unfortunately its utility is limited to janky combos, due to it requiring more resources than a typical fusion with even less of a payback. yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/De-Fusi…
Rain Dog@mcc I'd assume "jazz fission" involves having a saxophone and a keyboardist busking at opposite ends of the subway station
@mcc @lisamelton Also: fusion food gets all the attention- why no love for fission food?
Coprolite9000@rebelrebel62 @mcc @lisamelton
... fission chips?
Jess (ontological)@mcc you could say it's about the atoms they're NOT splitting
Mister Moo 🐮
Josh@mcc It's a scientific impossibility to blow that many notes simultaneously on a saxophone. The sax was not meant to doublestop.
West Lawns⚡️@mcc I believe the theory of melodic fission was covered by Dowling in 1973 in the paper on interleaved melodies.
Bach is said to have used this:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Violin_Partita_No.1_in_B_minor,_BWV_1002_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)
The nearest I can come to for (interleaved melody) jazz fission as a non musical cat, is this album:
Thorne Lawler@mcc @DamienWise Jazz fission:
Doug 🌈🇨🇦 
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Jazz Fission, is that dancing for trout?
Jazz Fission, is that dancing for trout?
Daniel Lakeland
Joël Franušić