Rhythm

The blues is a form of poetry and music genre that originated in the Southern states in America in the 1890s. In “The Blues” by Raymond R. Patterson, he says “It evolved from late-nineteenth-century southern rural field hollers (periodic shouts from a laborer) and work songs structured on African Musical…

Only ever two songs from the sea. Sometimes, the spirit of something is plain to see, loud and proud, glinting and glistening on the surface of itself. Other times there’s a pause required, a divine punctuation in time, before the spirit of it presents itself — where it rolls up from somewhere deeper — a dance between…

Blues is a very fun (at first glance) form of writing that allows for rhythm and meter to be used in order to create emotion (as all poetry tends to do). Typically, the blues are meant to make people feel blue, hence the name. The first line of traditional blues…

Euclidean Rhythms are pretty neat, and a good summary can be found at Wikipedia. Despite there being a lot of resources describing euclidean rhythms, I had a bit of trouble finding specific resources for coding the algorithm in Python. So I wrote one from scratch, mostly based off of the…

Welcome back. The third entry of the music theory series will be about rhythm and how it fits in a composition. For reference, please check out my previous posts on music theory: The Basics of Music Theory and The Basics of Music Theory: Harmony. I expound a little more in…

How our business’ pivot has evolved our energy management, creating forward momentum using the metaphor of rhythm. — It’s been one month since we decided to pivot our business & began to action the change, moving the business towards leadership coaching & management consulting. …

The Beat Generation, rebellious in nature, focused less on collective thinking and more on independent thought. In Kerouac’s “Belief & Technique For Modern Prose” list, he focuses mainly on independent style and interpretation. Encouraging the loss of “literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,” as a way of conveying a real, true…

In Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues, specifically the 239th, 240th, and 241st choruses, he describes his admiration of Charlie Parker, a saxophonist from the mid-1900s. Kerouac’s work helped sustain a legacy of importance for Parker even after his untimely, pneumonia-rooted death in 1955. …