Re: Re: POLYRHYTHMIC COUNTERPOINT

[Raul Bonell <raul.bonell@gmail.com>]

2010/9/9 Toby G <carpet8@mac.com>:
> They may not get distracted but they will count beats/pulses incorrectly.
>
> t

the trick was that being 29 beats each bar, you have to concentrate
counting. which is not so difficult, but you *have to be really*
counting each beat to sum the total amount of silent bars. otherwise,
if you write 7*(4/4)+1/4, people gets comfortable seeing that *common*
seven 4/4 bars and thinking they can rest and catch the time line
later... which not always happen ;)

> once, attending to a composition workshop led by orlando jacinto
> garcía (who studied with morton feldman) i asked him why he was using
> *really* odd meters like 29/4 and left intentionally in silence a
> bunch of bars for some parts ... i couldn't figure out how somebody
> could count that at first sight or why he was not using more
> efficiently the meter tool, but he told me that that was the only way
> he had found to make the performers count silent bars and don't get
> distracted :)
>

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