2 – Pygmy Polyphonics (Protracted)
May 7, 2009
No-one knows at what stage the various Pygmy cultures developed polyphony… I like to think that it was sometime before it developed in the West, although I have no evidence to support that! It’s incredibly complex stuff, without the rigid structures imposed upon it by Renaissance composers or the 20th century minimalists. I wanted to slow it down just so I could really appreciate what was going on, so I did.
