Euclidean rhythm: Difference between revisions

The '''Euclidean Rhythm''' in music was discovered by [[Godfried Toussaint]] in 2004 and is described in a 2005 paper "The [[Euclidean algorithm|Euclidean Algorithm]] Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms".<ref name="gtpdf">[http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf 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&ndash;5647–56.</ref> The [[greatest common divisor]] of two numbers is used [[Rhythm|rhythmically]] giving the number of [[beats]] and silences, generating almost all of the most important [[World Music]] rhythms,<ref name="gtweb">[http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/rhythm-and-mathematics.html Comparative Musicology - Musical Rhythm and Mathematics]</ref>, (except [[India#Performing_arts|Indian]]).<ref name="extv">The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms, by Godfried Toussaint, [http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff-extended.pdf 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. 47-5647–56.</ref>

[[Open-source hardware|Open-source music hardware]] projects that can generate Euclidean rythmsrhythms, include Mutable instruments' [http://mutable-instruments.net/midipal/build MIDIPal], RebelTech's [[Stoicheia]] and Ruin & Wesen's [http://ruinwesen.com/products Minicommand]

*G. T. Toussaint, [http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf 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&ndash;5647–56.

*Extended version of [http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff-extended.pdf The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms], by Godfried Toussaint, 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. 47-5647–56.