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2026-07-04 13:22 UTC

@mcmullin@musicians.today @sknob@mamot.fr @meljoann@topspicy.social I've always thought of time division as akin to numbers themselves -- when we divide anything (time, space, ??) into equal parts, we have a way to interface with it that suits our cognitive tendencies and limitations. (Why? Ummm...I don't know.) Even distribution also creates a consistent rigidity that's incredibly practical, e.g. a sewn seam. 1/x

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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com 2026-07-04 13:24

@mcmullin@musicians.today @sknob@mamot.fr @meljoann@topspicy.social The cool thing about music to me is that, at its best, it is actually *not* evenly distributed time, but a performer's stretching and shrinking of time. There's been a lot of really interesting research done on micro-timing, and how incredibly consistently and precisely good performers mess with time. Very interesting stuff! And it's also the thing we've lost when we dump everything onto a grid and quantize it. :(

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