Title of article :
What makes a Rhythm to be Bad
Author/Authors :
Jafaripour, Saeed Faculty of Engineering - Kharazmi University, Tehran , Nilforoushan, Zahra Faculty of Engineering - Kharazmi University, Tehran , Borna, Keivan Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science - Kharazmi University, Tehran
Abstract :
Deciding whether a musical rhythm is good or not, de-
pends on many factors like geographical conditions of a
region, culture, the mood of society, the view of rhythm
over years, and so on. In this paper, we want to make a
decision from the scientic point of view, using geomet-
ric features of rhythms, about bad ones. The researchers
who are investigating the relationship between geometry
and music, certainly realize that there is a big vacuum
in this regard, not using computers to detect a good or
bad rhythm. Here, using computer programming and
applying geometric features to more than four thousand
rhythms, we decide on the bad musical rhythms. Then
we present algorithms for deciding about bad rhythms
using geometrical features.
Keywords :
Symmetry , Geometry , Music , Rhythm , Onset , Pulse
Journal title :
Journal of Algorithms and Computation