Mr. Taylor keeps refreshing the picture before us: no sequence, geometry, group, rhythm outstays its welcome.
In one ensemble the group rhythm interconnected with its crisscrossing pattern: one line of four dancers moving one way kept meshing with, parting from, forming mirror formation with, a second line of two dancers.
The production by the award winning contemporary Malaysian gamelan group, RHYTHM IN BRONZE is in collaboration with children's theatre advocate, JUMPING JELLYBEANS.
Still, the distinctive palette of the group — rhythm-section heavy, with multiple woodwinds but just one trumpet, and no trombones — registered clearly in the compositions.
Within this genre there were large-group and small-group rhythm and blues.
Another hallmark of small-group rhythm and blues was the relegation of the guitar, if indeed there was one, to a time-keeping status, because guitar soloing was considered "country" and unsophisticated.
Mr. Moran's band plays reformatted Ives music; things are looser in Mr. Hollenbeck's group, but rhythm is dominant, and the solos (on clarinet, vibraphone, saxophone, drums) are short and to the point.
At the point we meet, though, Young and Johnson are cheerful as they talk about Rock or Bust, the first album they have made without Malcolm Young, Angus's brother, and the group's rhythm guitarist and founder, whose retirement was announced earlier this year after his dementia made it apparent he could not continue in the band.
The university, located in a hippie-friendly city 75 miles south of San Francisco, already teaches a popular undergraduate course about the Grateful Dead's music, and is known as "a hotbed of current Deadhead culture," said Bob Weir, the group's rhythm guitarist.
As Carry the Cure's website describes the group's "Rhythms of Life" program, 'The "Rhythms of Life" school assemblies are designed to encourage students to commit to life.
The drummer Ola Jagun, from Nigeria, is a Yoruba priest, and his group, Ancestral Rhythms, mixes age-old chanting and drumming with contemporary dance rhythms.
