remixes
As far as the musical traditions I was exposed to, my main objection is the metric simplicity. Hence I spent much time with resequencing
existing music into odd meters. It does seem that the key to understanding rhythm is the psychoacoustic capacity of cyclic expectation.
A regular pulsation is thus the necessary point of departure together with the ability to divide time durations and appreciate the cycles
of 2, 3 and 4. My interest for complexity has led me, in my teens to dive into odd meters and reject the palatabilty in search of novelty.
At one point, this led to me hearing the regular ticking of a clock in a 7/8 meter. Initially unconcscious strecthing of the cyclic
expectation thus develops on top of the love for displacement of cycles and their additive construction. It takes time to
follow these remixes according to their cycles, and this does not necessitate being able to count them.
gagtime (2013) zipped
One of my important early inspirations has to be ragtime music. A good dose of irony and rhythmical invention delivering uplifted moods align
with me tremendously. In order to augment these characteristics I engaged in recomposing tunes by Scott Joplin to groove in odd-meter rhtyhms.
A very meticulous manual rearrangement of notes in MIDI format yielded what I consider a thorough study in odd-time syncopation. A good sign of
having acquired odd-meter cyclic expectation is when this music appears bang-on time allowing syncopation to rise above the downbeats.
This is a bold attempt to define the rhythmical framework for the next (musical) century, the way ragtime rhtythmically defined the previous one.
01 cascades
02 easy winners
03 elite syncopations
04 the entertainer
05 maple leaf rag
06 pecherine
07 strenuous life
dj glatko (2010...)
As a matter of rhythmical exploration I have produced many remixes of popular music. Curiously, my elitistis heritage is blocking the main stream
musical expressions from appreciations. However, the popular art is a creepy and too easy to consume for maintaing a healthy distance. Hence,
my solution is to recompose this music into odd meters and add a more intense rhythmical element, the jungle beat. This brought about immense healing
of this inner conflict making it possible for me to love the earworms that were implanted by the marketing channels I was exposed to. In the
first stage of remixing thes were done by manual splicing. Later, I have developed a weighted random based algorithm that hugely sped up the process.
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dj dokuzz (2017...) zipped
Once I established that odd meter remixes facillitate the apprehension due to the familiarity of popular tunes, I realised that adding in a video
in sync with the remix serves the purpose even better. By this time all the remixes were algorithmic, they rely on simple repetition or exclusion
within every bar of the music. As such the duration of each bar shrinks or extends by the same amount. This makes it possible to stretch the video
with a constant factor such that all the bars align. A variety of such video remixes is hosted on vimeo and youtube
01 nerdesin aşkım - hadise
02 kaçak - melis kar
03 öptüm - ikizler
04 cevapsız çınlama - aleyna tilki
05 bi dakika - aynur aydın
06 canavar - derya uluğ
07 sığamıyorum - bengü
08 afitap - sila
09 al dudağımdan kiss - melis kar
10 okyanus - derya uluğ
11 κάνω ότι δεν βλέπω - κατερίνα στικούδη
12 şampiyon - hadise
remix phoenix (2011) zipped
A variety of early manual remixes have been published as an album that abuses the thin line between fun, love and insanity. An absolute must for rhythmically knowledgeable.
01 cupurlika - goran alacki
02 isn't she lovely - birelli & sylvain.mp3
03 hiwar - hassan erraji
04 superstition - yesterdays new quintet
05 uci me majko, karaj me - kocani orkestar
06 cold sweat - james brown
07 kaja - plavi orkestar
08 sarajevo, grade moj - halid beslic (zb remix).mp3
09 srce, ruke i lopata - zabranjeno pusenje.mp3
10 crni voz - dejan petrovic.
11 mas. que nada - leo gandelman
12 my way - paul anka