Michael Bettine USA


Arcs of Time


Time. Everyone seems to know of it, but does anyone really understand it? As a drummer for the past 50 years, my assignment has always been to provide the ‘time’ for the rest of the musicians. To give a sense of propulsion to the music. This ‘time’ was a very mathematical type, with things chopped up into small increments, then assembled into a logical stream made up of these smaller parts. But I always felt this to be very restrictive, with little freedom to move away from rigid 'time.' When I finally abandoned playing in bands, I was free to explore what ‘time’ really meant. And it took me years to unlearn my time sense as a drummer in order to ultimately free myself from ‘time.’


This master class looks at how we relate to time, specifically how we relate to ‘clock time.’ What interests me more now is ‘waves of energy,’ instead of the restriction of ‘time.’ I want to step out of our normal sense of ‘time’ and demonstrate how to expand it, how to feel longer time arcs that expand us, and how to use the gongs to bring us into a sense of ‘no-time.’ Gongs/bowls/bells are the perfect instruments to help free us from being locked into ‘time.’


But it’s a bit of a paradox here isn’t it, as I will talk about ‘time,’ when there really is no ‘time.’


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