Eric Weinstein
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And this is new, right?
And just the way this...
Antoine de Portrain that's taking over the world is basically you hear the Middle East, but these guys are basically into microtones.
If you take 24 beats, you can divide it by sixes, you can divide it by fours.
So the mathematics of rhythm, the stuff that only Vinnie Cayuda was able to do before people are sort of getting hip to, things that were happening on oud are now happening on microtonal guitars.
And what it is, as I see it, is this violent birth of people bored by standard Western forms.
I'm not for all of the slop that, you know, like young people are always into the coolest stuff.
There's really cool stuff happening now.
It's the fact, particularly this Quebec kind of thing that broke out with these guys in costume.
Antoine de Portrain, something like that.