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That’s SO cool to see it explained

Something like this made its way into european music in flamenco via gitanos/romani people whose origin was ultimately in india

although ‘dithering’ already has a meaning as an audio term, in pixel art it’s a way to produce gradients by alternating very different tones:

in this way you get a whole range of shades with only two color values. the indian musicians are doing the same thing with sound, a pixelized gradient of scale. it’s extremely cool.

Something like this exists in Celtic music too. I’ve only seen it notated in bagpipe music, where “grace notes” are written as 1/32nd notes, but my dad was a piper and explained to me that while they’re written as 1/32nd they don’t actually take up any time, you could have 32 of them and they still wouldn’t take up a whole note.

It’s just a little flip or dither of the notes around the note upon which you’re going to settle. I haven’t studied it formally, but you hear it in pibroch-style pipe music– a solo bagpipe, as opposed to the massed formations of them you mostly get with pipe band competitions etc– and you hear it in sean nos style singing. Both instruments, the pipes and the human voice, as performed this way, make use of ornamentation rather than western-style dynamics, the pipes because you can’t make them louder or softer, and the voice because that’s just the style– when you want to express greater emotion in a phrase, you add ornamentation to it, rather than getting louder.

But, again, I only know it from listening, I haven’t studied it formally and don’t know what it’s called. (Your picture was not posted)