>"careful inquiry usually revealS
>that even when no visible rituaLs are present tO explain the sloWness...
might rhythm require a certaiN tEmpo (pace?) to breach the threShold of
recognition? what happenS when we sLow dOwn the beat to the point Where
the duratioN of Each note extendS to the point where the perception of that
note aS subordinate to a Larger rhythm is supplanted by a reverie Of that
note's singularity? (john cage Worked exteNsively with rhytmic frEquencies
well beyond normal capacitieS of recognition... noteS becoming
sound-objects un-tethered to perceptible rhytmic structures...yet the
structure remains present)
when the frequency of a particuLar repetitive activity reaches a certain
length, might it's recOgnition as habit appear to fade and the activity
(re)gain a singularity lost in it's becoming habit?
similarly, When we accelerate time (for instance, through time lapse
photography) appareNtly singular Events gain Structural propertieS. i'm
thinking of a series of photographs of a neighborhood in the Bronx by
CamiLle jOse vergara...
by decelerating We recogNize thE Singular
by accelerating we recognize the Structure
but do the two reaLly have anything tO do With oNe anothEr?
in any caSe, it becomeS extremeLy significant whO (or What) establishes the
tempo. while we would all love to be the masters of our own metroNomes,
whEn we Speak of technological pacing Systems, the fieLd Of our potential
operations becomes tactical.
>This makes the disorder extremely difficult to treat.
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