as for contrasting time signatures, my favorite example has to be "The
One After 909" on BROWN (another one of that seemingly infinite stream
of Rather Interesting releases by atom heart). this starts with james
brown shouting "1, 2, 3" in the left speaker and another guy counting
"1, 2, 3, 4, 5" in the right speaker. both samples are looped. a
whole other melody starts up in the middle, probably in 4 but i never
bothered to count it. actually it might be in 15, which would be
pretty funny (the whole 3 against 5 thing comes into sync every 15
beats, of course). the whole thing is pretty damn trippy and a rather
graphic demonstration of polyrhythm in action. not a bad tune,
either. :)
1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 3
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5
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