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No Click is a simple constraint for recording in a DAW: don’t play to a metronome click. Without a click, the producer’s playing is free to follow its own ever-changing tempo. Without a click, the producer unfolds a performance with its micro-timings intact—in other words, a performance that captures a moment’s real time flux. No Click frees the musician from the tyranny of bar lines and boxed-in 4-bar phrases, of the pressure to measure one’s playing into quantizable units, of the tendency to hear one’s music as fodder for a loop.

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