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Maximally Even Tilings

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Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM 2019)

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Rhythmic tiling canons tend to feature highly regular, periodic rhythms which, from a musical standpoint, can be quite monotonous and lacking in character. Allowing for “holes”, we can compose “partial tiling canons” that feature more irregular/interesting rhythms. In this paper, we will investigate the construction of partial tiling canons in which the composite rhythm is maximally even.

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  1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Jeremy Kastine

  2. Georgia Highlands College, Rome, GA, USA

    Jeremy Kastine

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  1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Mariana Montiel

  2. Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Francisco Gomez-Martin

  3. Technological University of the Mixteca, Oaxaca, Mexico

    Octavio A. Agustín-Aquino

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Kastine, J. (2019). Maximally Even Tilings. In: Montiel, M., Gomez-Martin, F., Agustín-Aquino, O.A. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11502. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_25

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