Alan is talking about the importance of rhythm and rhythmic pulse.
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
There must be no "compression" in your playing
Alan talks about the beginning of his work with Kemal
Alan introducing the concept of rhythmic differentation
How should we really perceive gravity
Go to the hypermeasure without losing any of the subordinate rhythmic patterns
and it must be inflected
to get it out of certain patterns
Rhythm is music meter are not the same thing
