This topic is musically fascinating! We discussed about expressive deviation from “regular timing” with respect to Gamelan music often, and came to the view that - as Gamelan music is ensemble music - an adequate description must include an idea of how multiple performers influence each other, of how effective timing is a result of negotiation between multiple agents. Unfortunately that “multi-agency” perspective made things very complicated from the outset so that we never actually reached a stage, in which timing was actually generated interactively. I am looking forward to learning how things were “thought” in Bol Processor!
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