What are 'cascade arpeggios'?

Here's a cute sound design technique that results in odd arpeggios: play several notes at different BPMs and find places where they phase in and out of sync.

Contents:
0:00 Listen to this!
0:20 The inspiration meme
1:09 Making things less griddy
1:29 Sketch composition
1:53 Making chord changes
2:50 Public service anouncement

[IzakayaDeployment]

A creative way to play arpeggios or the ultimate beatmatching nightmare for djs lol

[lfovco]

Nice reminiscent of Steve Reich Piano Phase.

[pcuadra]

I love when people rediscover phase music and find fun ways to use it!

[djanishanand]

This is cool. This technique has been always in front of us and was overlooked. Thanks buddy for sharing this and triggering this idea again. WOW sounds

[undergrads]

That's genius. This seems like it would would work amazingly well in a the breakdown/bridge. Thank

[DielectricFailure]

Yes. New inspiration is awesome. Thank you! ✌️

[toxicthecat]

This adds so much interest - great stuff.

[OmarP]

Muy buena idea Óscar. Muy inspiradora!

[pablojescobar]

Its super serious when the scarf goes on

[ironqueen_osrs]

I never thought about this.. Its so cool !!
you can do so much interesting and different stuff with this!!
Im going to the lab >>>

[stephanschuster]

In minimal music this concept is called Phasing.

[LuigiElettrico]

I'll definitely try this in one of my melodic techno tracks :D

[btsndcts]

I have use this kind of idea and run it through a ping pong delay. Getting the cascade running left and right.

[lawrencekelly]

Love this. So much so I'm nicking the idea, I'll have a massive hit with it, make me world famous, then I'll probably mention you in my grammy acceptance speech, the worlds press will go wild at me for it and then I'll be back to the day job. Cheers for the brief moment of fame though.

[uplatenyc]

Sounds amazing. But. I was really hoping for a full tutorial how exactly you placed the notes ☹️

[philfiebz]

Thanks for showing us this simple but effective concept. Never thought of trying that out. Today I want to showcase two tracks with creative use of white noise: “Black 8 & Arrab – Sandwaves” and “Stephan Bodzin – Boavista”.

[chocomalk]

"It's loose and you can incorporate it"
haha!!

[markzambelli]

There's an analogous thing going on in Dan Deacon's - Learning To Relax (Official Audio) Youtube video but not with the sound... it's with the visuals! Out of phase stuff leads to all sorts of weird effects (bit like the Moire Effect) and patterns in that video so it's nice hearing the audio-version of that idea here.
PS for anyone wanting to see Dan's video please read the disclaimer in their 'Description'

[split]

Nice Oscar! Gives inspiration to try new things

[Auditium]

This reminds me the way that Jooris Voorn played main riff in Ringo. Very cool method.