{"id":67205,"date":"2015-11-20T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T22:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=67205"},"modified":"2015-11-27T11:52:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:52:58","slug":"an-introduction-to-euclidean-rhythms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2015\/11\/20\/an-introduction-to-euclidean-rhythms\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction To Euclidean Rhythms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Euclidean Rhythms\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwigqSwYNaQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This video, via\u00a0<a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink g-hovercard spf-link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC9y4nruLDg5DYgzEn8bJxxA\" data-sessionlink=\"itct=CDEQ4TkiEwjKsLKH_5_JAhWUEk4KHe0OADYo-B0\" data-ytid=\"UC9y4nruLDg5DYgzEn8bJxxA\">Voltage Control Lab<\/a>, takes a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/tag\/euclidean-rhythms\/\">Euclidean Rhythms<\/a>,\u00a0Godfried Toussaint&#8217;s theory that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgm.cs.mcgill.ca\/~godfried\/publications\/banff.pdf\">The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms<\/a> (pdf).\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The basic concept of Euclidean Rhythms is that distributing\u00a0an arbitrary number of beats evenly over a larger number of pulses generates a musically useful rhythm &#8211; and that many of these rhythms are found in music around the world.<\/p>\n<p>At a basic level, distributing 4 kicks over 16 pulses and 2 claps over the same 16 pulses results in one of the most common dance music patterns. But Toussaint shows that more complex relationships, like 3 beats over 8 pulses gives you the Cuban <em>tresillo<\/em> pattern, 5 over 16 gives you the <em>bossa nova<\/em> and 7 over 12 gives you a common West African bell pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a deeper look at using the Mutable Instruments <strong>Yarns<\/strong> module to generate Euclidean Rhythms:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Euclidean Rhythms in Eurorack with Yarns\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qQMGNBKDOhE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video, via\u00a0Voltage Control Lab, takes a look at Euclidean Rhythms,\u00a0Godfried Toussaint&#8217;s theory that\u00a0The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms (pdf).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4387],"tags":[27241,2605],"class_list":["post-67205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-reference","tag-euclidean-rhythms","tag-music-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/euclidean-rhythms-e1448056872144.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}