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Turkish makam

Aksak — Rast in a 9/8 usûl

The limping Aksak 9/8 usûl driving a Rast melody — Turkish rhythmic cycles in action.

1 cell6 nodes1 voice
Aksak — Rast in a 9/8 usûl: the opening bars as grafer engraved them
The notation, exactly as grafer engraved it from the graph.

How it is built

Aksak — Rast in a 9/8 usûl. The Usûl node supplies Aksak (the limping 2+2+2+3 cycle), wiring its Beats/Unit into the Voice's time signature; Rhythm Repeat tiles the aksak cell across four bars and the velocities emphasise the düm on each downbeat. The pitches come from makam Rast via the Seyir node (ascending), notated at 24-EDO.

The graph

The node graph of Aksak — Rast in a 9/8 usûl in grafer's Graf editor

Nodes in this study

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