Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] XAP: a polemic
From: Tim Goetze (tim_AT_quitte.de)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 17:51:59 EET
Steve Harris wrote:
>> rhythmn is always based on one integral periodic 'pulse'. if
>> time is not divisible by this atom, there is no musical time.
>
>I think there are some counter examples, eg. Reich's phase music? How
>about african polyrhythms? I'm not sure but I dont think the time unit is
>integral in those cases.
it is with african music for all i know, and with steve reich's
music, it is simply many, but still integral, rhythmns at the same
time.
more examples?
>Seriously, there are good technical reasons for representing everything
>you can with floats.
just as there's good reasons to represent things like 1/3 with
fractions, right?
tim
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