I'm a tabla player in (classical) training (still noob though). One of my favorite tala is called "Sardha Roopak", and it's a cycle of 10.5 beats which is trippy. There are other X.5 beat cycles as well.
Here's a video of someone playing a tabla solo in 10.5 beats
I first heard L. Shankar playing against a 9.5 beat tala, and the concept blew my mind. In western terms, it means that the relationship between the rythm and melody (plus any harmony if there is any) shifts 0.5 beats every cycle: for one cycle, the rythm may feel ahead, or on time, and for the next it may feel on time, or late. It's a fascinating technique that I think has no true analog in western music.
It is true that many forms of african-derived music in the US will shift the precise position of beats to create swing/syncopation/dilla-time, but this is generally done on a per-note basis, not on a per-cycle basis as happens with a half-beat tala.
Perhaps I am not conceptualizing this right, but it sounds to me like it is basically a hemiola, which can be found in a lot of western music, albeit not much in classical or pop. If you listen to math rock or stuff like meshuggah though, its all over the place.
Typically in music theory, we would talk about a hemiola as a rhythmic technique in which a rhythm in a simple (2) metric division is introduced in the context of a compound (3) division of the beat, or vice versa.
What the parent post describes isn't an isolated gesture like that, but a sustained state of overlapping meters, if I'm understanding correctly. In the case of the ICM described, as well as math rock/meshuggah/etc, I would describe the technique as "Polymetric" or maybe a "Sustained polyrhythm," and not a hemiola.
I like teen thal and allochotal (not sure of spelling). What really blew me away was listening to zakir Hussein speaking drums, there's some very well developed verbalization of percussion that is a form of poetry I'm not sure what it's called.
Teen taal definitely, everyone loves that. Usually the first taal people begin to learn playing. I think you mean "ada chautaal"?
Yes the verbalization is called the "bol". "Bol" in hindi means things like "word", "speak", "lyrics", etc. Indian classical musicians don't use sheet music, so they have to orally pass down their teachings. The bol that Zakir Hussain (and all other tabla players) say _are_ the notes that they play. Word for word/note for note. Each sound on the tabla has its own name, which is expressed as an onomatopoeia like "dhin". Then you can verbalize the percussion you're about to play.
> there's some very well developed verbalization of percussion
It's called bol[1] in Hindustani music, and koṉṉakkōl[2] in Carnatic music. The basic 4-count syllables are 'na dhin dhin na' in the former, and 'ta ka dhi mi' in the latter.
Both are easily heard and seen performed by live musicians in the archetypal North and South Indian dance forms, Kathak and Bharatanatyam respectively.
For the life of me I couldn't cope with western bar notations especially regarding polyrhythms/polymeters trying to follow accents and groupings ... it gets unwieldy
So in the spirit of "pass the goddamn butter" [0] I was introduced to konnakol via this book [1] some time ago.
There seems to be a lot of truth in the the notion: "if you can say it you can play it". Once I can "vocalize it" it is way easier to translate that into the instrument itself. It is very intuitive to learn this e.g. the "takadimi" route.
[A pretty fun dissection of a Meshuggah song with the help of konnakol.][2]
I think you are exactly correct. My big revelation in graduate school (music performance) was the idea that vocalizations of music "short circuit" our learning process and tend to get a performer closer to what we'd call an "expressive" or "musical" rendition.
Notated music's function is simply to give a systematic way to for people to reproduce/recreate an aural experience, but it is a "lossy" format that western classical musicians have to spend years training in performance practice and interpretation to adequately recapture the expressive elements that are not easy to capture in notation but are vital for engaging performances.
I'm a Hindi speaker in training, but not music theory. I'm curious what they're named for?
Quoting the article:
> For instance, Teentaal (16 beats) is made up of four sections of four beats each, while Ektaal (12 beats) is made up of six sections of two beats each.
why is 'three rhythm' four beats/bar (and four bars repeating) and 'one rhythm' two (six)?
>it is far, far behind what Unreal Engine is capable of these days
Games aren't popular long-term because of their technical achievements. Valve's games have charm, partially due to the engine.
You can't expect them to be oracles though, right? Even the most experienced can give not-good-enough business advice, they don't do it on purpose I imagine.
Hard to say. They could also be lying to further their (in)famy (maybe they never want another professional job), cast sour grapes where they used to work, or were paid to by some reporter who wants to keep the motor running on the story inflation machine. I think some of these stories are just fakes.
In parent's defense, banning kids from reading certain books is not the same as "woke" governors banning or revising classic books for _everyone_, not just kids.
If people are banning books at school because the content can be bad for kids (debatable on what "bad" means obviously) then the parents can go get the book from elsewhere and have their kids read it at home. Whatever. But changing books for everyone is stupid.
That is accurate. This is incidental to the changes in the format, if you've seen the new version. Instead of the characters clearly impersonating Seinfeld in the scene composition eg a man doing standup, shots of the building, internal postures, visual character similarity, music, it's a specifically changed show. I observed a random set of persistent characters making less smooth random motions and strange ML-generated insets to replace problematic scenes, and no music. The language and clarity of speech is a lot better now.
The "fun" parts of GPT shouldn't be fully included in Bing, as Bing is supposed to be for searching the web/getting information as the article says. When these models become more accessible there'll be tons of places to do all the crazy stuff.
Does this mean that Alzheimer's is something that floats around your body? Or signs of it floating around? I always assumed it was something that could develop in anyone, like heart disease or some liver problem (except on the brain).
I can’t claim to know much about this, but as someone who recently suffered from possibly temporary amyloidosis-like symptoms, I’ve had to research this a lot recently.
Basically, amyloids have been known for centuries as e.g. white stuff that collects in spleens and recently research on dementia has turned to amyloids as one of the precursors of one of the types of Alzheimer’s. It’s not yet clear if every case has amyloid involvement or if clearing amyloids can resolve the condition without any side effects yet, in particular there’s been reported brain shrinkage.
I can’t say I’m an expert at any of this though. I’ve mostly looked at this from an AA amyloidosis perspective rather than an Altzheimer’s one.
We actually already have a test for the presence of amyloids - SAA blood tests commonly used to diagnose infection in horses and cats. Other creatures, including humans, can also measure C Reactive Protein, but both CRP and SAA are measures of stress or inflammation associated with bacterial infection. Your body routinely gets rid of amyloids it might produce, which is part of why it’s said people with AA amyloidosis recover when the underlying cause is treated, I think. But it’s unclear how well we can recover long-term and amyloids and biofilms are still active research areas.
All I can say is that for my amyloidosis-like symptoms, taking vitamin C regularly helps my thinking and the occasional high dose of vitamin A appears to temporarily reverse some of the amyloid-induced nerve damage. But I should also clarify I’m still awaiting test results to determine if I have amyloids and also my condition improves with antibiotics which means vitamin A and C might be interfering with bacteria (where biofilm = amyloids) rather than with the amyloid fibrils on their own.
Wasnt the base theory, that some viruses damage cells, that then do not become cancerous, but produce useless protein crap, that spills everywhere? Basically slow death, by spam every cellular division?
Are you talking about cellular senescence? Those cells don’t divide. They produce inflammatory proteins, aka senescence-associated secretary phenotype. More senescent cells in ageing, but no direct link AFAIK.
Yes, yes, that was it. Garbage slowly clogging the maintenance functions, building up other toxic substances, like plastic bags clogging a chemical plant over time..
And it does not have to be directly.. it just has to tilt the chemical environment slowly, but steadily towards something bad downstream.
It is clear that clearing the amyloids does not relieve one from the symptoms of dementia, or stop them. See Aducanumab, and the amyloid hypothesis nature article.
Heart disease risk is strongly influenced by "floating" factors (e.g., apolipoprotein B containing particles).
A risk factor for Alzheimer's disease is your ApoE allele, so it's not particularly odd to me that circulating factors could influence risk. But even if not—even if the test is just picking up on incidentally released factors that are just detectable—it could be sensible.
(I'm saying this completely agnostic to the claims of the article itself, just replying to your comment with general ideas.)
Lol. How you kill the animals, or how many has NOTHING to do with what you're actually eating. If Inuits killed 10,000 animals and only ate 5 of them, parent's comment would still be true.
Parent wasn't talking about the climate or sustainability at all. My point is that that's not what the conversation is about. The parent was talking about _health_, not climate. Sustainability of meat industry is irrelevant completely to healthiness or non-healthiness of being a human carnivore.
One thing I've heard about 4chan is that they're the most diverse group of white supremacists.