Combining varied pulses and effects yields unusual polyrhythmic textures

Evidence

In A Study in Pulses there is opportunity to create unusual polyrhythmic textures by combining varieties of pulses and processing them with effects such as filters, reverberation, delays, envelopes and other possibilities. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 281

Categorization

  • SEED: Could scaffold a composition workshop on deriving polyrhythms purely from found environmental sound rather than instruments.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 281
  • XREF: connects to: All environments offer audible repeating pulses across time scales — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 277; A constant pulse stream can be re-perceived by accent groupings. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 262; A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094 (+1 more)

Broader Connections