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Badra Song from Buzi, Papua New Guinea
John Lai's analysis of a metric cycle with microtiming sung by a mixed group from South New Guinea.
Tags: Metric Cycles, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia
Flute Music from the Kuna of Panama (Part 1)
John Lai's analysis of a flexible length cycle played by panflutes in Panama, where different material is inserted between identical starting and ending phrases.
Tags: Central America, Flexible Cycle Length, Loose Cycling, South America
Flute Music from the Kuna of Panama (Part 3)
John Lai's analysis of a Panama flute cycle where the cycle length is varied by extending a fragment of material.
Tags: Central America, Flexible Cycle Length, South America
Folk Dance from Pakistan
John Lai's Analysis of a Pakistani folk dance from Sindh, played by a double-reeded instrument, featuring a cycle with consistent beginnings and endings, but flexible material in between.
Tags: Central Asia, Flexible Cycle Length, Indian Subcontinent
Konnakol Duet in 75/16: Using Non-Isochronous Cycles as a Framework for Durational Transformations
Oscar Smith's analysis of the various time-shaping strategies occurring in a collaborative online konnakol video by South-Indian musicians B.C. Manjunath and Varijashree Venugopal.
Tags: Konnakol, Long Cycles, Non-isochronous-metric Cycles, South India
Paane ni Rokera, Panflute Music of the ‘Are ‘Are people of Malaita, Solomon Islands
John Lai's analysis of an interlocking flute duet from the Solomon Islands that uses small variations to create a large-scale directed formal process across cycle repetitions.
Tags: Morphing Cyclicity, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia
Shop Diaphonic Singing from Dyakovo, Bulgaria
Nathan Bernacki's analysis of a long, strophic, rhythmically flexible cycle sung by two women from Western Bulgaria.
Tags: Eastern Europe, Long Cycles, Non-metric Cycles, Strophic Cycles
Tangsulangga, Tratnien (guitar) Music from East Tibet
John Lai's analysis of a strummed string instrument playing a cycle with a very flexible form; a stretch to make a template of the cycles.
Tags: Asia, Central Asia, East Asia
Uusuusuha, Panflute Music of the ‘Are ‘Are people of Malaita, Solomon Islands
John Lai's analysis of a Solomon islands panpipe quartet that clusters several smaller cycles together to form a meta-cycle.
Tags: Morphing Cyclicity, Nesting Cycles, Pacific Islands, Southeast Asia