On Wednesday night at the Jazz Standard (116 East 27th Street, Manhattan), where she will perform through tomorrow, she presented a few elegant new pieces suggesting that she is expanding her concept of rhythm.
He brought these players into his own group as well, concocting larger frames for his music as he recorded at a quick pace; he wanted, he said, to have a group in which one unit played his established concept of rhythm and harmony and another played outside a tonal center and a steady beat.
The sequencer uses the concept of "rhythm necklaces," which are utilized in multiple disciplines crystallography, radio astronomy, ethnomusicology, nuclear physics to visualise repeating patterns.
In European music the great variety of styles derives its relation to melody from different concepts of rhythm.
His new book, "Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise," mulls the notion that we humans might have adopted our concepts of rhythm and dance from the chitters, chirrups, buzzes and whirrs of the insects that surround us.
"These works try to establish precise connections between sounds, shapes, colors and movements, to visually translate the concepts of rhythm, melody, harmony, pitch, timbre and intensity".
Historically, researchers in robotics have been interested in applying the concept of human rhythm to robots for many years.
After his trio disbanded, the new concept was a fusiony expansion of rhythm, texture and repertory, with ever-changing instrumentation.
But while staying solidly grounded in post-bop concepts of harmony and rhythm, he left a pleasingly personal mark on a selection of original compositions and familiar standards, notably an uncharacteristically high-energy " 'Round Midnight".
We read that Forster was, especially in his youth, a devoted Wagnerian and that the concept of leitmotifs influenced his ideas about literary rhythm, though Forster felt his own rhythms were less obtrusive than Wagner's recurring themes.
But as she plugs back into the kind of rhythm tracks Rufus once gave her, the title announces the concept: "Funk This".
