The album 'Time Poetries' is a groundbreaking concept album by Portuguese composer Carlos Guedes, featuring the acclaimed percussion ensemble Drumming GP and virtuoso João Dias. It unites two major works: the six-part cycle 'Time Poetries' (2021–2024) for percussion quartet and fixed-media electronics, and 'Fragile Ecosystems' (2019) for bass drum and electronics. At its heart lies the exploration of time as music's essence – inspired by Susanne Langer's concept of music as "time made audible." Guedes delves into auditory illusions pioneered by Jean-Claude Risset, such as endless accelerandi and ritardandi, Euclidean rhythms discovered by Godfried Toussaint, complex polyrhythms from Carnatic traditions, and polymetric overlays that create rhythmic tension and expansion. What starts as simple, repetitive pulses evolves into labyrinthine structures, blending minimalism's discipline with Drum & Bass energy and spectral blurring. The 'Time Poetries' cycle – prologue plus five "time poems" – takes listeners on a trance-like journey. Highlights include: Prolog – 647 Bateqs per a Miq: A solo dedication to Miquel Bernat using 647 prime-number beats to make a metronome seem to warp speed. Time Poem #1 – Sliding Pulses: Marimbas cross-fade in illusory acceleration, merging into electronic tremolo. Time Poem #2 – Euclidean Imbalance: Unstable "maximally even" rhythms dedicated to Toussaint, shifting from dub-like chords to polymetric bells. Time Poem #3 – The Grand Ritard: A four-minute slowdown across glockenspiel, vibraphones and marimbas. Time Poem #4 O – Poeta da Percussão: Homage to Naná Vasconcelos with shakers, handclaps and accelerating Drum & Bass grooves. Time Poem #5 – Resynthesis: Uplifting polymetric finale with four simultaneous meters. ​ Electronics – drawn from Eurorack, Buchla and Minimoog – sync precisely with percussion via click tracks, creating psychedelic fusions where mallet timbres bleed into synthetic ones. 'Fragile Ecosystems' distills this into bass drum solos: techno peaks, Escher-like ritardandi and metric irregularities like 8/4 dissolving into 13/8. As António Pinho Vargas notes, it's music born from rhythm's labyrinth; Lukas Ligeti praises its disciplined innovation, proving 99% of possible music awaits discovery. Perfect for fans of contemporary percussion, electronic minimalism and perceptual experiments – stream now and let time unravel.