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Traditional / experimental practice

Ancient Rhythms · Where Rhythms Meet

Distant traditions can share the same skeleton. The Turkish düyek and the Arab maqsum strike in the same places. 2+2+2+3 is the shared form of the Turkish aksak and the Bulgarian daichovo. The tresillo is played both in Cuba and in Ghana. Finally the bell pattern known as Bembé: the spacing of its seven strokes in twelve units is the same as the spacing of the major scale in twelve semitones. A structural likeness does not show a shared origin. 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.

8 minNo headphones needed

Liner notes

Strikes
Percussion ×4
What do you hear?
busy

4 layers, one sound engine; generated on this device every time it plays.

How is this sound made?

  1. Percussion−8 dB

    Percussion · a 5-stroke pattern, cycle 2 s

  2. Percussion−6.7 dB

    Percussion · a 4-stroke pattern, cycle 1.64 s

  3. Percussion−6.3 dB

    Percussion · a 3-stroke pattern, cycle 1.25 s

  4. Percussion−12 dB

    Percussion · a 7-stroke pattern, cycle 2.5 s

  • Reverb: room, 12% mix

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Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 6 s fade-in at the start and a 0 min fade-out at the end.

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B: neighbours on the map

8 trials, half of them the same sound; get at least 7 right and the difference is audible. The result stays on this device.

What do we know, what don't we know?

S · Soundscape, no claim

No health or mental-effect claim at all; it is simply a soundscape.

This session isn't linked to any claim of effect.

A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.

Its neighbours on the map

The five sounds closest to this one by measured sound features.

  1. 1Rhythm Labyrinth · Hearing AksakWarm · rhythmic · wideBoth beats and pulses · both rhythmic · same goal: explore
  2. 2Ancient Rhythms · The Asymmetry of the BalkansWarm · rhythmic · wideBoth beats and pulses · both rhythmic · same goal: explore
  3. 3Ancient Rhythms · The Drums of Central AsiaWarm · rhythmic · wideBoth beats and pulses · both rhythmic · same goal: explore
  4. 4Rhythm Labyrinth · Four and FiveWarm · rhythmic · wideBoth beats and pulses · both rhythmic · same goal: explore
  5. 5Ancient Rhythms · The Usuls of the Middle EastWarm · rhythmic · wideBoth beats and pulses · both rhythmic · same goal: explore
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