Hunting for rhythm's DNA: Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does Bo Diddley rule the world? Though he died last year, the iconic singer and guitarist of American blues and rock still rules the rhythms of the world, says computer scientist Godfried Toussaint. Toussaint uses complex algorithms to ferret where the rhythms of world music came from - in the same way an evolutionary biologist might hunt for the origins of, say, an arthropod body part.

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