xenochrony

English

Etymology

xeno- (“alien”) +‎ Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”), coined by Frank Zappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ziːˈnɒkɹəni/

Noun

xenochrony (uncountable)

1. (music, uncommon) A studio technique where a guitar solo or other musical part is transposed into a completely different song.
   • 1997, Andre Kostelanetz, The Frank Zappa Companion: Four Decades of Commentary, Schirmer Books, →ISBN, page 183:

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

   • 2016, Tim Hodgkinson, Music and the Myth of Wholeness: Toward a New Aesthetic Paradigm, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 148:

     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.

Derived terms

• xenochronous

Further reading

• xenochrony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia