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Rough Grooved Surface
There are 3 parallel meters used: 3/4, 12/8 and 6/8+3/4. A common characteristic in African music is a 12/8 meter that can be related to on various levels. In Western music, meter gets divided or simplified into a basic meter and syncopation is used for rhythmic complexity. Since African music is not about scored music, different metric layers can be easily added over the top without consideration of how it relates to 12/8. Rhythmic levels: Rhythm By Addition by Lee Barry
Mirror Rhythms
In the Francis Ford Coppola film Tetro , a writer's cryptic notes are decoded by holding them up to a mirror. I thought this might be an interesting idea for for text-based artwork, but experimented with creating mirrored 1-bar rhythms, as a way to generate variation. They can also be done with 2-bar rhythms, or rhythms of other phrase lengths. Here is the MIDI file . Each rhythm repeats 4 times. *** A jazz-funk idea a la Tower of Power that uses a mirror rhythm: Cult Status of Casablanca - Lee Barry (9/21/1998) by meta4s
Daily Rhythm: Roulette Wheel
A "roulette wheel" rhythm gradually slowing down in both note values and with ritardando: MIDI File
