While in the bardo, the soul negotiates different stages and encounters various visions, created from the souls prior life experience. The soul either ascends to nirvana or returns to another corporal existence. Over time the name has acquired entity status. Their method of working is discovery through improvisation, then remembering, recreating, practicing. Sometimes a tune continues mutating, yet still retains the basic shape of its original conception.
Many tunes intentionally open up for lengthy exploratory passages.
Though neither of them took up an instrument until they were in their twenties, Michael and John Gibbons were always interested in causing a racket. John initially got hooked on percussion, while Michael was in art school at the time and started to get interested in Ornette Coleman and his Electric Band Primetime, No Wave, Material etc. He started experimenting with music while he was living with his then girlfriend, whose house was filled with electric guitars, synthesisers and such belonging to her brother. Eventually, Clint moved out, with the excuse of wanting to attend graduate school. Isobel was attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where John was also a student.