Compress a figure to half its length and play it twice.
The repeat is what makes this the mirror of halfTime rather than a
figure with a hole in it: the bar stays full.
Halving brings positions together, and two onsets of one stream landing on
the same step are one stroke played louder rather than two: a drum struck
twice at the same instant is a pair of note-ons a reader turns into a hung or
cut note, so the pair is merged and the louder of the two is what sounds.
Streams stay apart, since two limbs striking together is a chord and not a
repeat.
Compress a figure to half its length and play it twice.
The repeat is what makes this the mirror of halfTime rather than a figure with a hole in it: the bar stays full.
Halving brings positions together, and two onsets of one stream landing on the same step are one stroke played louder rather than two: a drum struck twice at the same instant is a pair of note-ons a reader turns into a hung or cut note, so the pair is merged and the louder of the two is what sounds. Streams stay apart, since two limbs striking together is a chord and not a repeat.