Art Jarvinen, whose rhythmic intricacies are second to those of no one I write about, offers a different genealogy for how he came to metametric complexities. In ninth grade (circa 1971) he discovered Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band’s then-brand-new album Lick My Decals Off, Baby, which he found, as he puts it, thoroughly “post-minimal/totalist, with the crunch that was supposedly added to the prettier pattern/phase things of Reich et al by my generation of composers.” As evidence he sends an mp3 of the song “I Wanna Find A Woman That’ll Hold My Big Toe Till I Have To Go,” which you can listen to by clicking the link. Art didn’t hear of Steve Reich till he got into college, and never heard the word phasing until his senior year, 1978, when percussionist Jan Williams lectured on the topic. By then, the metametric idea had already long been sown in him, via Captain Beefheart.