Analyzing musical cycles as concurrent fluxes of expectation
by John Roeder Co-PI of this study group presents his theoretical framework for the analysis of cyclic musics. The paper combines cognitive- and process philosophy-informed perspectives to develop an understanding of what makes musical cyclicity an especially rich construction, suggesting why it may be found across the world. Download as PDF
Tags: Flexible Cycle Length, Long Cycles, Loose Cycling, Metric Cycles, Morphing Cyclicity, Nesting Cycles, Ostinato
Meter in Bulgarian Folk Music
Nathan Bernacki discusses the concept of meter in a Bulgarian context, noting the discrepancies between emic and etic conceptions of meter and the way that academia has influenced its categorisation.
Tags: Eastern Europe, Metric Cycles, Non-isochronous-metric Cycles
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