spaz

the last four jams I have played in
have all had significant moments
of polyrhythm taking flight

it seems many people have a natural capacity for it
even if it sounds goofy or wrong at first

keep at it
find the appropriate volume for the competing rhythms
and feel the transformation wash over
with new focus drive and joyfulness

I am thrilled at this unfoldment

since it expresses an essential truth to me
of some wisdom in the dancing body

that all people's have in their native music

and to connect with another culture's rhythm
or tonality for that matter

is liberating and to me
completely ecstatic

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I became aware today
it reflects an essential process
of finding the divine within divergent voices

for there is always a relation between all rhythms
by nature there must be

and the effect is to bounce my body in a different direction
than it was originally headed with the single beat
setting up a ping pong game my brain enjoys

and spontaneously
my hands have become completely able to
maintain focus on the alt rhythm
without any thinking or analysis whatsoever

just jumping in with an upbeat or every third eighth note
or a three over a four

and no one has gotten angry at me yet

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it is a strange and exquisite moment
to find that door opening
every time I play

it is a way to express my opposition to western civilization's more dogmatic forms
as well as making an existential statement about how life is
constantly getting bumped in a new direction
and being open to surfing it

and a way to resolve autonomy needs within music
since I am playing along
yet accenting something up-to-then hidden
already within the rhythm of the music

it allows my spasticity to find its purpose


polyrhythm
the gift of my handicap

a new genre I call

spaz