The Poetry of Prediction: Musical Time, Rhythm and Groove

Music is a temporal art, unfolding like a ribbon and transforming our experience of time itself.

This lecture demonstrates how music harnesses our unique and intricate listening faculties creating a complex interplay between sounding events and our internal predictions. This forms a predictive tapestry whereby the listener – usually unconsciously – ‘explains’ temporal events in reference to multi-layered streams of expectational waves. How musicians exploit such expressive opportunities is explored in a wide range of musical styles.

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