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concept:rhythm-necklace-equivalenceRhythm Necklace Equivalence
Two rhythms belong to the same necklace if one is a rotated version of the other; disregards starting point in cyclic pattern.
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- Bemb´e Bell PatternaboutWest African bell pattern (1221222) used to illustrate rotation and reversal operations on rhythmic strings.
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- A metaphor for a sequence of rooms perceived as a chain of distinct, beautiful centers, each half-open to the next.
- The rhythmic, varied spacing of structural elements — unequal yet coherent — that gives a building its subtle harmony and profound feeling through strength of definiteness
- Family of musical rhythms generated via Bjorklund's algorithm, where k onsets are distributed evenly across n time units; denoted E(k,n).
- Core property of Euclidean rhythms: onset patterns are distributed as evenly as possible across the time span.
- Empirical observation: Euclidean strings favored in classical/jazz/Persian music; reverse Euclidean strings have wider appeal; non-Euclidean rhythms used in sub-Saharan African music.