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*[http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue40/features/wardhaugh/index Musical pitch and Euclid's algorithm] by Benjamin Wardhaugh on Plus |
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*Links to videos about and a Flash app for experimenting with [http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-rhythms/ Euclidean rhythms] |
*Links to videos about and a Flash app for experimenting with [http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-rhythms/ Euclidean rhythms] |
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[http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~mcleish/644/Projects/DerekRivait.1/ A tutorial on ''The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms'' by Derek Rivait] |
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Revision as of 09:23, 1 July 2012
The Euclidean Rythm in music was discovered by Godfried Toussaint in 2004 and is described in a 2005 paper "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms"[1] The greatest common divisor of two numbers is used rhythmically giving the number of beats and silences, generating almost all of the most important World Music rhythms[2], (except Indian).[3]
Open Source Hardware Projects
Open-source music hardware projects that can generate Euclidean rythms, include Mutable instruments' MIDIPal, RebelTech's Stoicheia and Ruin & Wesen's Minicommand
Other uses of Euclid's algorithm in music
In the 17th century Conrad Henfling writing to Leibniz about music theory and the tuning of musical instruments makes use of Euclid's algorithm in his reasoning.[4]
References
- ^ The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms by G. T. Toussaint, Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 31 to August 3, 2005, pp. 47–56.
- ^ Comparative Musicology - Musical Rhythm and Mathematics
- ^ The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms, by Godfried Toussaint, Extended version of the paper that appeared in the Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science’’, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 31-August 3, 2005, pp. 47-56.
- ^ Musical pitch and Euclid's algorithm
External links
- G. T. Toussaint, "The Euclidean algorithm generates traditional musical rhythms", Proceedings of BRIDGES: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music, and Science, Banff, Alberta, Canada, July 31 to August 3, 2005, pp. 47–56.
- Generating African rhythms using the euclidean algorithm
- Musical pitch and Euclid's algorithm by Benjamin Wardhaugh on Plus
- Links to videos about and a Flash app for experimenting with Euclidean rhythms
A tutorial on The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms by Derek Rivait