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Music Morsel: An Animated Description of Mr. Maps

Listen from 2'22" to 3'05".

This is truly an ingenious technique; sampling and cutting up a vocal narration is standard fare, but approximating its rhythm by quantizing it to percussion in a syncopated way is not. For those who are curious on how something like this can be done, check out Propellerheads ReCycle.

Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed.

Music Morsel: Book of Glass

Listen from 3'28" to 4'10".

SYNCOPATION. And crazy amounts of it. There’s another fantastic example of this kind of syncopation in Siberian Khatru from Close to the Edge (1972) by Yes. Listen for it from 7:00 - 7:30.

Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed.