EPISODE · May 24, 2026 · 1H 7M
TALKING HANDS: Most commercial music fits this 7 TEMPO OCTAVE template. Why?
from Cliff Crego · host Cliff Crego
Liberating our sense of moving sound is what TALKING HANDS vocal yoga practice is all about….. As a thought experiment, sit down in a shady sidewalk cafe anywhere in the world w/ Western commercial music of the past 50 yrs playing in background speakers. My conjecture is that everything you hear will fit this pattern of 7 octaves (doublings) of tempo (or time). But mechanically. Like a drum computer. Like a click track. This is what I think of as the PIANO IN THE BRAIN, a self-world view which shapes both our thinking about, and our perception of, music. In TALKING HANDS, based on movements of the non-mechanical, embodied, DOWNLOAD a working draft of The TALKING HANDS / TALKING FEET FLORILEGIUM:—100 poems, sayings, chants, songs, & rhythms to learn by heart, by Cliff Crego [1Mb] http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/talking-hands_florilegium.pdf
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TALKING HANDS: Most commercial music fits this 7 TEMPO OCTAVE template. Why?
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