Performance Video:
This is an experimental free jazz performance that conveys feelings of darkness, confusion, and distress.
The arrangement features piano, bass, and drums.
Drum sequencer that never loops??
Instead of employing traditional rhythms based on integers or fractions,
it explores the concept of playing in rhythms defined by irrational number ratios.
The overall rhythm pattern, therefore, never repeats, never loops, but continuously evolves into chaos.
Irony??
"Each rhythm element keeps looping along its repetitive polygon pattern, but since these patterns are in the relationship of irrational numbers with each other, as they overlap, the overall rhythm pattern never repeats, never loops, but keeps changing forever."
How It Works? Explanation here:
When starting this project, my initial goal was solely to create an avant-garde free jazz piece. I imagined playing the piano like Cecil Taylor, not confined to a set beat or scale, and fluctuating freely. Later, I thought about what kind of rhythm would suit such a piano performance as Cecil Taylor performed solo piano without a rhythm player. I thought that even polyrhythms, known for their complex rhythms, would not suit such performances as they eventually form repetitive patterns, which wouldn't match the style of Cecil Taylor.
I thought that in order for the rhythm pattern to progress without any discernible repetitive patterns, it would be necessary to break away from the framework of integers and rational numbers. This means introducing irrational numbers into musical rhythms. Patterns repeating at the ratio of irrational numbers never meet again even if they start together.
"Each element only moves along its repetitive pattern, but since these patterns are in the relationship of irrational numbers with each other, as they overlap, the overall pattern never repeats and keeps changing forever."
In my performance video, this concept is conveyed both audibly and visually to the audience. Audibly, the rhythm pattern keeps changing, and visually, it creates a great irony that the rhythm pattern is shown to be merely the overlay of very simple-looking repetitive motions moving over different regular polygons. This simple repetitive motion, due to being in the relationship of irrational numbers, results in a chaotic irrational rhythm that never repeats.
