Carl Testa’s Sway gives the computer a say

People often talk about machines taking over society like it’s a bad thing, but Connecticut multi-instrumentalist Carl Testa envisions a relationship in which musicians and computers coexist just fine. Testa plays double bass and electronics with bandleaders such as Anthony Braxton and Tyshawn Sorey, but in his own bands he likes to focus on playing his strings, while computer processing adds dynamics to the sound.…