- Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:31 pm
#963
So people not born into this music tend to get obsessed with numbers like 1 and time and such.
One teacher in Africa told me to forget about time. That there is not time. The dun duns are the time.
Ok so the traditional kenkeni for kassa is just on the time....
So I didn't really believe him, after all, I've seen great players bouncing their legs occasionally and surely the dancers must dance on something.
But dancers often dance off the time so that argument doesn't really stand.
I was thinking recently about the the 3:2 clave, which is off the time, but from my (admittedly somewhat ignorant) understanding it is the base from which all other instruments work off in some Latin music.
So couldn't the dunduns act in exactly the same way?
Wouldn't we have better understanding by forgetting time (a human created concept)?
Traditionally there is no call, that's just a ballet thing, so technically there's probably no one either?
What do you reckon?
One teacher in Africa told me to forget about time. That there is not time. The dun duns are the time.
Ok so the traditional kenkeni for kassa is just on the time....

So I didn't really believe him, after all, I've seen great players bouncing their legs occasionally and surely the dancers must dance on something.
But dancers often dance off the time so that argument doesn't really stand.
I was thinking recently about the the 3:2 clave, which is off the time, but from my (admittedly somewhat ignorant) understanding it is the base from which all other instruments work off in some Latin music.
So couldn't the dunduns act in exactly the same way?
Wouldn't we have better understanding by forgetting time (a human created concept)?
Traditionally there is no call, that's just a ballet thing, so technically there's probably no one either?
What do you reckon?
