swimming music

"Perhaps the decisive point has now been stated. The 'infinite melody' seeks deliberately to break all evenness of time and force and even scorns it occasionally; the wealth of its invention lies precisely in that which to an older ear sounds like a rhythmic paradox and blasphemy. The imitation or domination of such a taste would result in danger to music which cannot be exaggerated: the complete degeneration of rhythmic feeling, chaos in place of rhythm."

Conlon Nancarrow - Study for Player Piano No. 21 (Canon X)