Xenochrony is a studio-based musical technique developed at an unknown date, but possibly as early as the early 1960s, by Frank Zappa, who used it on several albums. Xenochrony is executed by extracting a guitar solo or other musical part from its original context and placing it into a completely different song, in order to create an unexpected but pleasing effect. He said that this was the only way to achieve some rhythms.
I was pleased to learn that this was done by Frank, because without any knowledge of this technique, I too experimented with taking pieces of composed and improvised bits and extracting them like DNA into something not originally contemplated. I had no knowledge that this technique was ever performed actually. It's creates another field of creativity not ordinarily exemplified. I had some guitar guests perform on some of my work and I always kept a copy of their track dry so I could possibly dissect and re-rhythm the guitar into other pieces, which I've done.
Here is one INCREDIBLE piece of guitar work. In my humble opinion, Zappa played guitar like no one else. A true original approach with such mind bending concepts in both rhythm and melody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp93bcp4HCM&feature=related
Enjoy!
I was pleased to learn that this was done by Frank, because without any knowledge of this technique, I too experimented with taking pieces of composed and improvised bits and extracting them like DNA into something not originally contemplated. I had no knowledge that this technique was ever performed actually. It's creates another field of creativity not ordinarily exemplified. I had some guitar guests perform on some of my work and I always kept a copy of their track dry so I could possibly dissect and re-rhythm the guitar into other pieces, which I've done.
Here is one INCREDIBLE piece of guitar work. In my humble opinion, Zappa played guitar like no one else. A true original approach with such mind bending concepts in both rhythm and melody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp93bcp4HCM&feature=related
Enjoy!