polyrhythm
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After his lessons with Smith, Naqvi was best known as the drummer from Dawn of Midi, a mesmerizing trio that approached polyrhythm with a thrilling, almost scientific tenacity.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
The familiar beat of my day-to-day has degraded into something more like a circadian polyrhythm, and I wasn’t much of a dancer to begin with.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2020
It’s got so much going for it: mellowness, intensity, space, polyrhythm, slow grooves, deep funk, momentum — and teacherly lessons, in the English-language tracks “To Whom It May Concern” and “Which Way Africa?”
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2012
It's Eastern European folk music with some African polyrhythm and American funk bounce.
From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 23, 2011
But polyrhythm conceived from scratch by a composer, written down on the page, imposed on the Western symphony orchestra, player by player, was an utterly novel concept.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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