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Rising Star
All music can be seen to be in all time signatures at once.
I hear, naturally, any piece of music in the time signature that most economically describes the pattern. By this I mean that I use the time signature with no over or under-lap in reference to the pattern of the music. This happens automatically without the need for abstract knowledge regarding time signatures. However I recently noticed that I could listen to a piece of music written in say 4/4, as if it was in say 5/4 (other examples apply), which would cause an overlap of the signature I was using with the natural understanding of the form causing me to hear the song differently. This is fun to do if you have an instrument and can play a continuous loop. Within the loop you can forget about beginning and end and use your mind to reimpose beginning and end wherever you want, although to reimpose a new model of the loop I have so far had to forget the old one first. With varying degrees of mental strain you can get any number of perspectives on what you are playing, but if anyone were to hear you they would probably not hear what you are hearing as they would be in the natural context.
Just a "fun" mental exercise.
I did something similar using a loop of notes whilst varying the space between each in a way that gave me differing patterns, I could use two or more loops and it not sound repeated. After I had established a few different meta loops using the differentiation of space, I realized that from any point in any of the meta loops, I could transition to a corresponding point in any of the other meta loops. At this point I was overwhelmed and had to take a brake.
hurrah!
I hear, naturally, any piece of music in the time signature that most economically describes the pattern. By this I mean that I use the time signature with no over or under-lap in reference to the pattern of the music. This happens automatically without the need for abstract knowledge regarding time signatures. However I recently noticed that I could listen to a piece of music written in say 4/4, as if it was in say 5/4 (other examples apply), which would cause an overlap of the signature I was using with the natural understanding of the form causing me to hear the song differently. This is fun to do if you have an instrument and can play a continuous loop. Within the loop you can forget about beginning and end and use your mind to reimpose beginning and end wherever you want, although to reimpose a new model of the loop I have so far had to forget the old one first. With varying degrees of mental strain you can get any number of perspectives on what you are playing, but if anyone were to hear you they would probably not hear what you are hearing as they would be in the natural context.
Just a "fun" mental exercise.
I did something similar using a loop of notes whilst varying the space between each in a way that gave me differing patterns, I could use two or more loops and it not sound repeated. After I had established a few different meta loops using the differentiation of space, I realized that from any point in any of the meta loops, I could transition to a corresponding point in any of the other meta loops. At this point I was overwhelmed and had to take a brake.
hurrah!
