![]() Somehow, he finds the time to create on top of teaching it all. “It might seem intimidating that they’re in 19/16 or 19/15 - they are in these weird, challenging time signatures - but not really, not once you realize that these are ratios.” “We spend more time unlearning the grid than we do actually learning the tunes, and once you unlearn the grid, learning the tunes becomes pretty fucking easy,” he said. Because rhythm is ratio - it isn’t fucking increments.”Īnd more challenging than teaching the arrangements, Spruance found, was freeing minds from the Western structure. I feel like that’s an area to help us reconnect to a more primal sense of what rhythm is. “There are other ways to think about rhythm that have more life to them. ![]() “All of Western music is based on subdivisions and increments,” he said. ![]() Burman and Ananda Shankar as Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann, Spruance spends a great deal of time alternating scales. His near-orchestral works, often both beautiful and haunting, evoke classical Indian scores. “It might seem intimidating that in 19/16 or 19/15 - they are in these weird, challenging time signatures - but not really, not once you realize that these are ratios.” – Trey SpruanceĪs for the music, much of what Spruance writes lies outside of the Western school. The mythological elements are subservient to the symbolism that relates to my understanding of the fundamental Pythagorean principles.” These are fundamental realities that can be articulated. “This isn’t really something for an academic repository, where we just stroke our chins. “It is essentially rooted in the Pythagorean understanding of the universe,” he said of the designs. It may seem needless to go these lengths of symbolism, but for the masterful composer/guitarist, it’s all part of the bigger picture. In Spruance’s cosmological context, the symbol for The Electromagnetic Azoth - a colorful, intertwined image of light and dark peacocks and their brilliantly colored feathers - has a dual nature and represents Caduceus, the double-snaked staff of Greek god Hermes. These factions, all still under the greater SC3 umbrella, are distinguished by their lineups, styles, and meanings The Electromagnetic Azoth, for example, is a percussion-heavy union that serves as a central nervous system of sorts for the rest. That album gave birth to a series of Chiefs subsets. Bungle, sought no exception to aurally cross over on the Chiefs’ 2005 release, Book of Horizons ( Web of Mimicry). His meticulous compositions span a vast spectrum of sound, ranging from Indian to Spaghetti Western and surf to death metal, and Spruance, best known for his work in Mr. Long a purveyor of genre splicing and cultural convergence, Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3 has carved a niche in the American music scene that few co-inhabit. ![]()
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