For fun I thought I’d try composing some rhythms following these rules:
- each phrase consists of a #notes in the Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,etc…)
- If the #notes / #measures in the phrase > 8 then increase the # measures by a factor of 4
- Simplicity
Here is my first crack:
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Cool stuff. A while back I interviewed guitarist Elliot Sharp, who wrote quite a bit of guitar and string quartet music based on Fibonnaci sequences. Check out “Diurnal” and “RingToss” for example, on his String Quartets CD.