Oscar Smith’s annotated transcription, showing colouring for motivic analysis, of a cyclic piece of kulintangan music from Sabah province, Malaysia, on Banggi Island just north of the northern-most tip of Malaysian Borneo. The kulintang gong-row instrument and snare-like drum (both played by women) play an ostinato that approximates the interonset interval sequence 2122 1222 (14 fastest pulses); the melody plays this duration sequence nine times before repeating. They repeat many times (~10.5 minutes) before the final two cycles come, which introduce some variations, included an extended final cycle before a tight finish.
There is some fairly pronounced microtiming, and occasionally the kulintang player would appear to swap the inital durations of each sub-group of 7, i.e. 2122 is sometimes 1222 and vice versa. Transcribed from this video: https://youtu.be/Hhcb_fCT4sk?si=zi_vfqtghfnC2Bx3
