not small sycophants with mpd

What do the Grammys have to do with anything? I couldn’t find anything in the entire list of nominations that inspired curiosity. Please let me know if you think I’ve overlooked something.

Words for the day: Polyphony and Micropolyphony.

As it applies to medieval music, polyphony is a liturgical chant that includes a combination of different but harmonizing melodies, as opposed to plainsong.

In the previous century, it became the simultaneous sounding of two or more melodies of equal importance; also known in jazz as "collective improvisation;" the simultaneous expression of two or more instruments improvising with equal individual melodic and counter-melodic significance (e.g., polyphony is a key element in Dixieland jazz.)

To me, the etymology of the term micropolyphony could be a bit misleading because it isn’t really about polyphones made smaller. The polyphones are made smaller so that distinct patterns can move past each other and the interference can register as dissonance, much like a moiré happens visually. It destabilizes the “melodies” to create a new compositional form. Here’s the wiki definition of micropolyphony and a few Ligeti videos for your edification. (Actually, the metronome video doesn't really demonstrate micropolyphony- it just looks cool.) My apologies for being pedantic this week.

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Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes




Requiem (2001 - A Space Odyssey)