Rhythm in Emerging Dances

David Horne takes the regular four-square seed rhythm and turns it into seven-note patterns in this passage from 'Emerging Dances'.

In this passage from 'Emerging Dances' composer David Horne takes the seed rhythm and inserts a blank space, or rest, in the middle of it. What’s the effect?

In this passage from 'Emerging Dances' David Horne takes the seed rhythm and puts it in different ways into four layers of the orchestra.

Most of the time music has a solid, regular pulse – the bars are the same length. So what happens when you upset the balance and make the bars different lengths, as in this passage from 'Emerging Dances'?

Step inside the orchestra: hear and watch what's going on in David Horne's piece 'Emerging Dances'