Traditional / experimental practice
Ancient Rhythms · The Usuls of the Middle East
In Turkish makam music an usul is a cycle defined by the order and strength of its strokes; the strong stroke is usually the low 'düm', the half-strong and weak strokes the high 'tek'. Four usuls in turn: sofyan (four beats, three strokes), düyek (eight beats, five strokes), semâi (three beats, three strokes) and aksak (nine beats, six strokes). The tempos were chosen. This is the skeleton of the cycle, not a performance: the positions and order of the strokes come from the sources, the sounds are abstract percussion timbres. There is no claim of any effect.
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- Percussion ×4
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- Percussion−6.7 dB
Percussion · a 3-stroke pattern, cycle 2 s
- Percussion−8 dB
Percussion · a 5-stroke pattern, cycle 2 s
- Percussion−7 dB
Percussion · a 3-stroke pattern, cycle 1.49 s
- Percussion−7.5 dB
Percussion · a 6-stroke pattern, cycle 2.27 s
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