On Wednesday, March 28, 2001 at 1:39:48 AM UTC-5, Proulx wrote:   
   > A quote from FZ:   
   >    
   > "It's a matter of pattern recognition.  Do you know what a hemiola is?   
   > That's where you play a pattern across a bar or series of bars - the faster   
   > they can comprehend what my subdivision is and where I am going and what   
   > they have to do to make that thing pay off.  There was a couple of things   
   > that happened - on one song I played this hemiola that this was really   
   > complicated over seven bars.  The big monstrosity thing that's... the time   
   > is 4/4 and I am playing something really weird over seven bars and it comes   
   > out exactly on the down beat of bar number eight.   
   >     "And the drummer got it exactly right and I waited about twenty bars and   
   > did it again, the same type of rhythmic thing came out again.  When you see   
   > that stuff on paper that's science fiction.  That proves ESP.  Guarantees   
   > it.  There is no other way that you could do something like that, because if   
   > you took each part and wrote it out and saw what rhythm was, how else could   
   > it have happened?  These people have to be reading my mind.  I'm not reading   
   > theirs because I am not thinking about that, I've got something else to   
   > worry about." [1982]   
   >    
   > My question is, do you believe in ESP?  Do you believe you have   
   > telepatically connected your mind with the minds of your fellow bandmates   
   > while you play?   
   >    
   > NP  Upon The My-O-My   
   >         Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band   
   >    
   > Proulx   
   > --   
   > "Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and   
   > feel.  It complains so.  By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders   
   > and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.   
   >    
   > -William Niles Rumfoord   
      
      
   21:14 (there are 14 half notes in 7 bars of 4/4) is 3:2. This same ratio can   
   be applied to quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and so forth   
   (42/28, 84/56, 156/108, and so forth).  I think any of those tuplets would be   
   a monstrosity; I think    
   Zappa knew what a hemiola was. Regardless of how you subdivide the rhythm, the   
   ratio is the important thing here people.   
      
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