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Monday and Tuesday in the space of Wednesday

🔗D.Stearns <stearns@xxxxxxx.xxxx>

8/5/1999 1:37:06 PM

[Drew Skyfyre (quoting Frank Zappa):]
>In this technique various tracks from unrelated sources are randomly
synchronized with each other to make a final composition with rhythmic
relationships unachievable by other means. Inordinary polyrhythmic
terms we speak of 5 in the space of 4, or 7 in the space of 6. In
Xenochrony we deal with larger units of time; a complete solo at one
metronomic rate in the space of a track at another ... sort of like
Monday and Tuesday crammed into the space of Wednesday."

Yeah! Take out the 'random' in "various tracks from unrelated sources
are randomly synchronized with each other," and this is a technique I
use all the time in my music. I've also found that 'thinking' or
hearing in this way ("with rhythmic relationships unachievable by
other means") has over the years steadily infiltrated my real-time
playing and 'thinking...' which I also believe in turn, had certain
liberating ramifications on my approach towards (and conceptions of)
intonation and tunings.

Dan