Re: Polyrhythms etc

Hi Jacky,

Yes, I like polyrhythms a lot.

I like 4/4 too if it has some life and
variety to it - what I find a bit tiring
is the music you often hear that has a pulse
going on at clock like regularity.

After a few beats it kind of loses any life to it.
That applies to some of the FTS tunes too, and
that's why I'm so keen on fractal rhtyhms,
polyrhythms, and using seeds from recordings
etc.

Somehow polyrhythms aren't the same. Even
if you have two clock like polyrhtyhms,
the variety of pulse you get from the two
gives the result a lot of life I feel.

FTS has polyrhtyhms and fibonacci rhythms.
The fibonacci rhythms are based on an idea
by David Canright.The interesting thing about
those is that though they have a lot of structure
to them, they never ever repeat exactly.

Larger and larger fragments of the rhythm
repeat but the whole rhythm never does
(at least ideally if you have arbitrarily
many layers - in FTS you have 30 layers
maximum so they do eventually repeat
but only after many beats, e.g. days or
whatever).

However, I think what I find hard to
take in the clock like 4/4 is also
exactly what many people actually like
about it - the way the rhythm is so
regular it almost becomes not a rhythm
any more, just a tick tick tick.
Sometimes I can appreciate that
a bit, usually if there is something
else going on, or it fades in / out
or something like that.

Robert