re: GODDESS's forward/reverse 'accident

["Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>]

Dear Goddess,

Viz a vis this idea of forwards and backwards loops.
Try this on for size:

Start playing around with some palindromic rhythms.

an example would be this simple rhythm in 5/8


5/8   ||: D*T*D :||

where D = a bass note
      T = a treble note
      * = a rest

These could be melodic or percussive sounds.

Flip 'em over backwards and , voila, you have the same rhythm coming as
going!!!!

Here's a beautiful rhythm from Cuba called 'Cascara' that is rhythmically
palindromic:

||:  T*TT*T*TT*T*TT*T  :||
     1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a

*by the way, if these rhythms don't line up, select them and change the 
font
to courier or andale (fixed width fonts that make all characters line up).
That's how we send rhythms on the frame drummers list without having to use
a notation program.

Now make the melody palindromic as well, as in:

||:  1*33*5*77*5*33*1  :||
     1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a

I'm using 1, 3, 5 and 7 as whatever degree of whatever mode or scale you
happen to choose (hence, locrian mode would be 1,  flat 3,  flat 5,  flat
7).

You see what I mean?     Excellent for forwards and backwards and forwards
playing that still stays 'consonant' both rhythmically and harmonically.

Try it,  you'll like it..........  <smile>

Hope you are well.  How's that new repeater coming along?  Can't wait to
hear you perform at the World's First All Woman Looping Festival, October
4th at the San Jose Museum of Art.  Amy X Neuburg was phenomenal and
phenomenally well recieved at this past weeks' Y2K2 Loopfest, btw, and she
will also be on the bill with you as the headliner.  It's going to kick
butt.

warmly,   Rick Walker (loop.pool)