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PHILIPPE CASSARD, ANNE GASTINEL, DAVID GRIMAL 23 Anne Gastinel: I feel that everything connects more easily, in a more fluid way. While the desire to exchange, to make propositions, to try them out, is still as strong as ever, there are more and more points which we don’t need to discuss any more as they seem so natural to us. It’s true that we’re starting to know each other really well. But that doesn’t mean everything is predictable: what links us is the urge to try things out. So what I find extremely pleasant is that we can always talk freely among ourselves. We’re never afraid of being eclipsed by someone else because the other person has a better idea. There’s no misplaced pride among us, no reserve or narcissism. Maybe that’s also why no one sticks to his or her preconceived ideas. Yet, at the same time, we don’t feel at all that we’re making concessions on our personal aesthetic principles, our own playing; none of us has the impression that we’re making ‘sacrifices’.