Is the rhythm from Fatty Boom Boom (Die Antwoord) a canonized rhythm?

:sweat_smile: Doesn’t make it better. Especially in this case I don’t understand the tone and references between the lines :innocent::sunglasses::wink:

It means that I make a general statement and that I’m not replying to anything specific in this thread, or a specific person in this thread. I don’t write between the lines.

Not necessary, because if someone applies math to something and it looks like it makes sense does not mean it was correct. For example, dividing something in bars may lead to a result even if the music wasn’t meant to be put into bars but is based solely on elemantary pulsation instead. But in any case, all I’m saying is … what I already said. To take things people say about things as ideas, not as truths.

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Hm, I don’t follow, but seems way too OT right now :smiley:

This sort of directs to neurophysiology and how mammals perceive time and everything time related:

OT neurophysiology music, time perception

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661318301918
Frontiers | Music, emotion, and time perception: the influence of subjective emotional valence and arousal?
https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/41628/chapter-abstract/353469499
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00578-5
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691822002165
Frontiers | Toward a Neural Basis of Music Perception – A Review and Updated Model
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2012.01213.x
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00315-y

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Well, I don’t know what you are talking about either (cold and cruel what? mammals who?) :wink:

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It feels super on-topic to me, especially in this context!

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Neurophysiology and perception of time and rhythm?

Review
Special Issue: Time in the Brain
The Evolution of Rhythm Processing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661318301918

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Yes, it’s cinquillo. You can see the pail drummer at the very beginnning, playing cinquillo in one hand, and filling in notes in between with the other hand.

There’s also a handclap part here that embellishes it, that’s not cinquillo.

(Nerd Note: The word “cinquillo” is originally used to describe that particular 5 note rhythm when it’s used in old Cuban styles like contradanza and danzon… per Rebeca Mauleon-Santana’s SALSA GUIDEBOOK.)

Cinquillo sounds like this:

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I mean that’s the blessing and the curse of using multiple lenses. They never have to be taken prescriptively! They’re as useful as they prove to be and to you, no more, no less.

I enjoy looking into opinionated experts, just offline, and… willingly :stuck_out_tongue:

Thank you for the recommendation!

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You’re welcome! Rebeca was gigging as a pianist here when I came to SF to study Cuban percussion, way back in the early ‘90s. She knows her stuff.

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