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Indeed, the same is true for me. As a child, I was always intrigued (hip-mo-tized, more like) by columns of turn signals that flashed asynchronously; or wiper blades of multiple cars sweeping at different speeds and different intervals, etc. It was out of that fascination I conceived "Gradus," but with the 'quantization' of the asynchronous loops to a coordinating grid for purposes of performability. I tend to enjoy playing with multiple planes of time simultaneously and certainly enjoying hearing others do so. Messiaen and Carter are definite influences on me in this regard (though I've never approached the complexity of Carter's use of time). Incidentally, I just remembered that early experiments with prime numbers and voices moving at different speeds were done using Tim Thompson's KeyKit, particularly the kboom tool. Actually multiple kboom tools, sometimes sync'd to a common grid, sometimes free. Tim was particularly helpful in e-mail exchanges while I was building these contraptions. Cheers, Jon Southwood On 6/21/05, Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com> wrote: > > So for me the use of primes is a way to keep the music pulsatile while > avoiding simplistic metric relationships. -- > > >