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An Experiment In Xenochrony
Steve Baker - Guitars, looping, samples and xenochronous audio assembly
Thanks to Cosmos and Mitch Lapute (rhythm section)
© Steve Baker 2022
"['Friendly Little Finger'] is one of the earliest examples of a technique I developed called Xenochrony (strange synchronizations). Other examples include 'Rubber Shirt' on Sheik Yerbouti and every guitar solo on Joe's Garage except 'Watermelon In Easter Hay'. In this technique various tracks from unrelated sources are randomly synchronized with each other to make a final composition with rhythmic relationships unachievable by other means. In ordinary polyrhythmic terms we speak of 5 in the space of 4, or 7 in the space of 6. In Xenochrony we deal with larger units of time; a complete solo at one metronomic rate in the space of a track at another ... sort of like Monday and Tuesday crammed into the space of Wednesday."
- Frank Zappa
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released July 22, 2022
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