large meters meter for free rythm

Sherry and John

Thanks for your comments.

1. (Sherry) I have had some larger meters working up to a point - Mark's nominal 93/8, for instance, and a couple of others with beats in excess of 100, trying to make the whole piece one bar to start with - though with the drawbacks I also mentioned to Mark. So do you reckon, pending work on Composer, 28/4 is actually the de facto top limit? Have you any impression whether it's the '28' that's the boundary, or (say) the (4x28 =) 122 ?

2. But I'm more interested in your musical response - that you could imagine playing a 4/4 bass line under this.

Going back from this into what I'm trying to do : this is an improvised line. Some at least of the irregularities are in the pauses between phrases, and yet if I listen to it without looking at it, it does feel right. So in getting a grip on it in order to make a 'proper piece' of it, I'm inclined to try and hold to the timing 'as is'. I.e. what I'm saying is I'm still trying to make sense of it myself, and I don't have a pre-determined idea I want to use Composer to realise.

I think what I hinted at before may be right - I have to step outside simply trying to process this midi file (which is complicated by the fact the pulse and metre settings are NOT specific to the music) within software.
It would help if I had the whole thing by heart, and I can work at that.
And maybe also I could try to re-record it (possibly listening to it at the same time) with more specific settings for both pulse and metre and see how it then transcribes.

Anyway, guys, thanks for your interest.

Sincerely

Ian G.