PHASING
Phasing
Phasing is a compositional technique in which the same part is played on two musical instruments, in steady but not identical tempo. Thus, the two instruments gradually shift out of unison, creating first a slight echo as one instrument plays a little behind the other, then a doubling with each note heard twice, then a complex ringing effect, and eventually coming back through doubling and echo into unison. Phasing is the rhythmic equivalent of cycling through the phase of two waveforms as in phasing. Note that the tempi of the two instruments are almost identical, so that both parts are perceived as being in the same tempo: the changes only separate the parts ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Phasing (music)
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phasing
Noun
- Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle.
Verb
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