In "Captains Courageous," he helped Tracy focus his threatening manner into a single strong shaft of feeling with the slightly off-center rhythm that became Tracy's signature.
Looking up at her long form, as she turns this way and that — she has an interesting, off-center rhythm that slows the action down even as the script and the director want to speed it up — you may mistake the subtlety of her movements for depth, but clouds are surface attractions, and Hall's performance is mostly just that.
A computational model of the mammalian spinal cord circuitry incorporating a two-level central pattern generator (CPG) with separate half-center rhythm generator (RG) and pattern formation (PF) networks is reviewed.
Today, the music's choppy, off-center rhythms are blanketing London.
But he finds off-center rhythms, attaining a little bit of freedom and knocking his instrument from side to side for tremolos.
Extravagant choral outbursts, feverish street-band percussion and balladlike barroom solos take on sophisticated off-center rhythms and shifting meters; there is little loss of spontaneity.
(Mr. Williams is a beneficiary of the off-center rhythms created by the hip-hop producer J Dilla, which arrive a hair too late or too early and confound your notion of the four-beat measure).
Against this music, how do we measure pieces like "The Soldier's Tale," coming just a few years later, in 1918: tight, glaring, dry-eyed, boogying its way through off-center rhythms and uneven meters?
There are lots of nice things to say about the show and the album — you can focus on Mr. Rawlings's elegant and driving guitar playing, for instance, and Ms. Welch's calm, centered rhythm-guitar accompaniment, functioning in the slowest songs almost like a bass player — but it's still a misuse of resources.
A brain-stem autonomic oscillator, together with a hypothalamic and a cortico-frontal centers entrained by baroreceptor input, have been proposed as the heart rhythm control system.
