What are Euclidean Rhythms? In this video, we explore the intersection of math and music to generate traditional world rhythms.
Check out our article on Euclidean Rhythms for more details!
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I am a physicist at CERN - I have re-calibrated the large hadron collider to make beats for my dubstep tracks...
I wanna hear those transnational wobbles!
I'll take stories that didn't happen for 500 alex
This is really cool! I had never heard about Euclidean Rhythms until I watched this video! It's like a whole new world of beats opened up for me! THANKS!~
+FrankJavCee Thank you! They are really cool aren't they?
Hey Frank, I love watching your videos. Didn't know you were into modular gear too.
Frank! :D
Lovely to see people putting so much care and effort into the content they create. Great video, mate.
+Cazaq Thank you for watching and for your very kind comment, it means a lot!
Are you the same guy who does afrotechmods? Thanks a lot for the videos they are very helpful and clearly explained.
Not me!
thanks for the history and real word examples of Euclidean Rhythms. that's really cool you included those in the video.
Straight to the point and extremely helpful, thanks
Thanks! This is the blueprint of the perfect instructional video: succinct, quick to the point, clear and simple to follow. Congrats! :-)
One of the best you've done. Would be useful/interesting even for people who aren't into modular.
+Flohr Thank you! Gotta reel people into Eurorack any way we can!
I'm SO EXCITED about this. Thank you!
Really great work mate!
Great explanation, Joe. After figuring out the rhythm, it's also fun to decide which beat of the measure the sequence will start, like changing the start position in a looping MIDI clip.
Excellent explanation
Excellent video!
Nice and concise , cheers!
thanks for the information.It is very well explained.
Great in-depth explanation.
+Sysex|Studio Thanks man, I appreciate your support!
Thanks a lot for this nice video introduction to ER!
Expert Sleepers' Disting mk3 and mk4 also have Euclidian rythm generators! They can do almost anything, they're great for filling up some gaps in your modular.
Fascinating. I knew about the end product- Ruismaker‘s Rozeta Rhythm app does a very nice job of eight-part Euclidean rhythms- but I must confess to not having been aware of the theory. That is no longer the case!
Excellent. Thanks!
Thank you for the great explanation of this topic! Very interesting!
+VolcaRock Thank you for watching and commenting!
super! great lesson there..
Really good explanation and demonstrations, made sense to me!
+Chris Perks Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Thank you so much for this explanation 👍
Interesting, thanks!
Informative! 👽👍
Thanks for this video! This is the clearest explanation of Euclidean Rhythms I've seen; going to try it on Yarns straight away. Thanks again.
+Protokoll4 We did a video with Yarns as well, if get stuck along the way!
+Voltage Control Lab Watched and liked! Thanks again from a noob to the modular world ;-)
Clear and concise. All it needs to be. Now the same on polyrythm would be cool.
This makes a random music generator much simpler! It's interesting the fact that the rythms we prefer all have that strong mathematical affinity.
Funny, isn't it? Music is math, as they say!
+Voltage Control Lab or: Geometry is frozen music
+GB3770 I like that... :)
Voltage Control Lab it's a quote that was maybe said by Goethe...
Ese sonido me gusto, igual no conocia sonidos euclidean rhythms!!!
Solid Breakdown Sir :-)
Awesome
AWESOME
That was useful. Thanks
+SoloStuff Thanks for watching!
wow, i like those stuff!!
+Udo Matthias Thanks for watching!
Added to www.modularmusic.tv - stay tuned! Thanks!
Mate, great vid! More like this please! I had been ignoring Euclidean rhythm modules until now. Now my interest is somewhat piqued. :D Subscribed for more
+JackTheFunk Thank you! Lots more on the way!
I would love to use this in my thesis title proposal as a video presentation in the Application of the Euclidean Algorithm xD It's a great and informative video so i figured that I'd use this
p.s. proper citation will be used xD thank you
That's awesome! where are you studying, and will the thesis be available to read? I'll link it in the description if so, once completed!
give me an email to send it I'm from the Philippines, but the panel said that i should apply it to our University songs :3
+Prince Jheremias Abrencillo info@voltagecontrollab.com would be great. Good luck!
thanks once my study is done I'll send it to yah guys xD
Am I right in thinking that Euclidean Rhythms work best when using odd vs even and vice versa? e.g. E (5,8) or E (4,9) or E (5,16) or E (7,12) ? Just a common correlation that I spotted..
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Yes:)
hello, can you write please the most even distribution for (7,12)? thank you
+acc.nr.2 Hi there, check out the original pdf doc about Euclidean Rhythms, it has an example of the set (7,12) and some references to what world styles use the generated rhythm... cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/publications/banff.pdf
How do you folks manage to dance?
When you need some semi-complex math algorithm to explain how to make a simple four to the floor kick, basically. I have yet to find anything that sounds good, generated by Euclidean rhythm generators. Maybe there's something somewhere and I haven't found it yet in the sea of boring stuff.
I mean, it generates virtually every traditional rhythm in the world, so if you have a problem with the sound, it's probably not the Euclidean rhythms...
Yeah but how does this require euclidean algorithm?
The video explains a method of repeated insertion of 0's and 1's starting around 1:26. This algorithm turns out to have the same structure as the Euclidean algorithm. I agree that the connection was not made clear in the video. But, check out Godfried Toussaint's original paper for more details. It's pretty short.
The start of beethoven's fifth is very non-"euclidean ". Most music too.
But this isn't about the gcd() function at all, should at least check the maths! Its related to both spectrum sequences of rational numbers and to Bressenham's line-drawing algorithm
Lol, you can take it up with Godfried Toussaint I suppose!
Can I connect my analog synth to my time machine? lol
So, a dude from North America "discovered" rhythms in 2005 that have been used for thousands of years by people of other cultures?
No, he discovered that the rhythms that have been used for thousands of years by people of other cultures resembled the algorithms used for number distribution used by nuclear physicists. You can read the paper he wrote.
I'm also having trouble seeing the importance of this... it seems kinda obvious? Am I missing something?
Great video!