On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:

Unless you happen to be listening to Carter, Cowell, Ferneyhough, Johnston, Nancarrow, or anyone who has ever happened to use a quintuplet (Chopin, Elvin Jones, maybe Al Pacino in "Heat")

This reminds me, I was just reading The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play by Ben Watson, and he quotes an interview with Frank Zappa about his favorite records:

"'Can I Come Over Tonight' – The Velours. Any musicologist that can find that record and listen to the bass singer ... he's singing quintuplets and septulets. And considering where it came from and when it was made (it was on the East Coast Onyx label) it was amazing."

Judge for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-eO1TIgT8A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tn9TONsftM

--Stefan