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48.25Level 10 — rhythmic cycle as form

A repeated 5-sixteenth pattern realigns every 5 bars.

Use that realignment as a section marker.

For example:

Bars 1–5: one chord color.

At the moment the riff finally returns to its original metric position:

change register.

This makes the mathematics perceptible as form.