Meaning of xenochrony | Babel Free

Definitions

A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.

uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“Still, xenochrony was new: he had to fight his own engineers to allow him to do it, and it resulted in some extraordinary music.”

“Xenochrony is the technical term for this, and you can hear it when several shamans participate in one ritual, each with a personal tempo of drumming, each addressing personal spirits. Xenochrony became, in fact, an important strand in the story of K-Space, the trio that Ken Hyder and I put together with Tuvan singer and instrumentalist Gendos Chamzyryn.”

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