xenochrony
English
editEtymology
editFrom xeno- (“alien”) + Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editxenochrony (uncountable)
- (music, uncommon) A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
- 2016, Tim Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 148:
- Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits. Xenochrony became, in fact, an important strand in the story of K-Space, the trio that Ken Hyder and I put together with Tuvan singer and instrumentalist Gendos Chamzyryn.
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editFurther reading
edit- xenochrony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia