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Serialising the album Pretentious Incongruity by Key 13 (@keefmarshall)
Pretentious Incongruity: 2020-2024 is a retrospective compilation looking back at some key milestones in the first five years of Key 13 as a recording identity.
Track 16
I’ve been trying to make a decent minimalist track for a while, and I think I got part way there with this one. I’m quite pleased with the way it ebbs and flows, changing time signatures and themes gradually with polyrhythms along the way.
The title is a nod to a new way of understanding neurodivergence, yet to gain widespread clinical adoption but finding a lot of support amongst neurodivergent folk in how it explains their (our?) experiences. The track itself is intended to be reminiscent of a flow state – able to drive forward, adapting slowly and introducing new elements without losing the thread of deep concentration.
This was intended to be the first of several tracks in a series, exploring similar themes, but the rest have not (yet) shown any signs of manifesting so it’s included here because it has nowhere else to go.
Influences: Steve Reich
– From Key13’s Pretentious Incongruity: Track Notes
