This week is mostly dedicated to a dance/improvisation/sound workshop which Ilanit Tadmor and I are giving every evening to some 18 dancers, somewhere in Jaffa. On Sunday we worked on melody, on Monday we worked on harmony, and yesterday we worked on rhythm.
After working for about an hour an a half on different rhythms, multiplying rhythm, dividing rhythm, polyrhythm (working in different rhythms simultaneously) and the such, we came to the real thing: ignoring rhythm.
I then told them of Dune, the desert planet, where huge worms devour anyone who walks with any kind of rhythm on the sand. And then we played it, and I took upon myself a double role – both the thumper, giving an annoying fixed rhythm which should be ignored, and, naturally, the mighty worm.
At first the people almost went out of their minds with the effort – try it at home sometime – but they took to it very quickly, and we had splendid unrhythmicality.
So now I have my own troop of mighty fremen. Beware!
ניר יניב
דמות בדיונית ומעלליה
הו! ימין ושמאל רק חול וחול!
קהל המעריצים מחכה בכליון עיניים, אני מזכירה לך.
ונראה לי שמהיום אני מכנה אותך "התולעת הגדולה" בפורומים. זה נשמע ממש מתאים.
One of Fatboy Slim's songs has a line that goes "if you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the worm… if you walk without rhytm you won't attract the worm… if you walk without rhythm – aah, you never learn".
Always wondered if it came from Dune. Because, frankly, I've seen other movies/computer games where worms were attracted to people walking directly on the sand.
The book was published in 1963. I doubt that any of the movies and games you saw were written before that time.
Of course. But it could just be a common idea that other people have thought of without knowing Dune. Plus, the song may be referring to something other than Dune, even if that other thing did get the idea from Dune.