Time & Perspective Quote by Eberhard Weber

There is a quiet provocation in Weber's practicality: the orchestra, that citadel of prestige and tradition, simply is not built for jazz's reflexes. He's not romanticizing a genre clash; he's pointing at the infrastructure. Jazz wants elasticity, quick decisions, a living relationship to time. Orchestras want consensus, notation, hierarchy, and the kind of repetition that turns risk into reliability. When Weber says it "requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time", he's naming the real gatekeeper in high culture: not taste, but cost.

The pivot to "much easier to do on a synth or sampler" reads like surrender if you believe authenticity lives only in wood and brass. In Weber's mouth, it's closer to liberation. The synthesizer isn't a cheap imitation; it's an end run around institutions that can't (or won't) contort themselves into jazz's demands. Technology becomes a collaborator, not a compromise, letting a jazz mind sketch orchestral color without paying the entry fee of an orchestra's schedule, union realities, and rehearsal politics.

"So, we came up with that idea" lands with understated confidence. It's the sound of an artist refusing the false binary of acoustic purity versus electronic fakery. The subtext is ECM-era modernism: cool, meticulous, unflashy innovation where the studio is an instrument and the arrangement is a design problem. Weber frames hybridity as a solution to friction, turning limitation into a new palette rather than a lament.