TEK: Listening for Meter and Timbre in Chicago Footwork 

The following essay and derived sonic system were produced by Victor Burton through a collaborative interinstitutional effort with Jeremy Tatar, supported by the Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) project in Montréal. An excerpt of the text, intertwined with the first sonic system, was presented remotely at the Y6 ACTOR Symposium held in summer of 2024 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. A subsequent lecture also paired with the presented system was performed live in Berlin at Cashmere Radio in July 2024.