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"The result is, that it takes an electronic impulse about 130 milliseconds to go around the world once. Translated into pop music vernacular, that's an ordinary 16th note. If part of a musical composition is always one 16th note behind the rest, the piece will give you a kind of musical motion sickness. People will imagine that it is a mistake in the performance. Ears are far more sensitive than that. We've got to get around the speed of light or the performance won't work."