Yeah, dude. I feel your pain. But hasn't this discussion suggested that you really don't need to describe "music formerly known as polyrhythmic" as this list anyway? At least so far...
To up the ante on pedantry, I would suggest that the adjective you're looking for is "polymetric", describing music that has a *common pulse* among different rhythmic layers that suggest different time signatures. Polyrhythmic music, as I understand it, can be polymetric in specific cases, but can also have layers moving at tempos with no rational relationship (in the mathematical sense!) to each other. And this technique does have a foot in the IDM door.
For example, there are parts on Hrvatski's "Oiseaux 96-98" that have loops going out of phase with each other: the last minute or so of "Corcoran" has polyrhythm between drums and guitars, and there are other places on the album that allow slightly mis-synced groups of drum loops to slide around each other in what sounds like a polyrhythmic way. Damned if I'm going to look for them now...
There are probably much better examples out there than this, but it's just the first thing I thought of when I read your post -- I was just listening to the album earlier today.
Cheers,
Peter
Michael Upton <JetJag@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
quoted 5 lines I'd accept that the usual meaning of "polyrhythmic" is now "complicate>I'd accept that the usual meaning of "polyrhythmic" is now "complicated
>rhythms", but I just get a little exasperated about the loss of a once useful
>technical term. There is no longer a word I can use to say "containing
>different parts in several time signatures simultaneously" without having to
>be explicit that that's what I meant.
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