[linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic

Tim Goetze tim at quitte.de
Wed Dec 18 13:12:01 UTC 2002


Steve Harris wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:51:59 +0100, Tim Goetze wrote:
>> it is with african music for all i know, and with steve reich's 
>> music, it is simply many, but still integral, rhythmns at the same
>> time.
>
>Is that true of phase music? The tempo of each part changes cyclicly and
>smoothly over time, you /could/ reipresent it as 543875436/10000000000 or
>something but that's just silly.

reich started, afaik, with tapes running out of sync. but
it's a tempo thing with him, not meter -- his music is very 
much tied to integral meters.

tim




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