Re: delay tricks

[kflint@annihilist.com (Kim Flint)]

>I use a counting method with a guitar (could be any instrument, though) &
>delay, which may be of interest, so I will try to communicate it here:
>

>I hope this wasn't too confusing.....(or too anal)!
>
>- chris
>

Not to me, I thought it was really interesting. I like your approach of
representing a musical idea as a particular symbolic/algorithmic approach,
extending the algorithm in obvious ways, and reapplying that to the musical
idea. Allows you to find new things that would have been missed in praxis.

I've started doing similar things with polyrhythms lately. I think of a
particular beat division I want to work with (fives lately) and another
beat division to cross it with (five over two, say). I'm not good enough
rhythmically to play something like 5:2 right off the bat, so I carefully
figure out all the subdivisions and the locations of each strike. Then I
practice it slowly and build the tempo as I get the feel. Great way to pass
time in boring meetings and irritate co-workers!

I think I might try combining this with your ideas to make some more
complex polyrhythmic loops! With the echoplex its pretty easy to get a
couple of them synced together in cross rhythms, using midi clock and
different 8ths/beat settings. there are also ways to do it with
BrotherSync.  I assume you've tried this sort of thing?

kim

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