The Jammy Coffee-Bean

The Jammy Coffee-bean is a form of music used for entertainment originating in The Avarice of Improving. The form guides musicians during improvised performances. Three speakers recite any composition of The Sentience of Deducing while the music is played on a gax. The musical voices are purely rhythmic. The entire performance should be melancholic. Never more than an interval sounds at once. It is performed without preference for a scale. Throughout, when possible, performers are to alternate tension and repose.

• The gax always provides the rhythm.
• The Jammy Coffee-bean has the following structure: a theme and a lengthy series of variations on the theme possibly all repeated.
• The theme gradually slows as it comes to an end, and it is to fade into silence. The passage is performed in free rhythm.
• The series of variations is extremely fast, and it is to be very soft. The passage is performed in the reraspog rhythm.
• The reraspog rhythm is made from two patterns: the exusp (considered the primary) and the obungasnu. The patterns are to be played over the same period of time, concluding together regardless of beat number.
• The exusp rhythm is a single line with sixteen beats divided into four bars in a 4-4-4-4 pattern. The beats are named ozu (spoken oz), dusmorabur (du), kulu (ku) and doram (do). The beat is stressed as follows:
• | - - x - | x X x x | x - - - | - - x - |
• where X marks an accented beat, x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.
• The obungasnu rhythm is a single line with eight beats divided into four bars in a 2-2-2-2 pattern. The beat is stressed as follows:
• | x - | - x | x - | - x |
• where x is a beat, - is silent and | indicates a bar.

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