sinusoidal run rhythm

Sinusoidal run rhythm is created by adding phase-aligned cosine functions in integer ratios. Their maxima are shifted in time and dynamics compared to corresponding notated rhythms and exhibit a physicality that is not present in discretely controlled rhythms. sinusoidal run rhythm thus defines rhythm as a wave and thus clearly distinguishes itself from the conventional rhythm theory of the European musical tradition. It opens up an inexhaustible variety of beguilingly physical music.

The volume depicts this aesthetic diversity in numerous illustrations of the sinusoidal run rhythm. On the one hand, it offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in the manifestations of an expanded concept of rhythm and lose oneself in the beauty of individual examples—following the model of books for identifying beetles or butterflies. On the other hand, the theory encourages us to blur the boundaries between imagination and performance, score and interpretation, human and machine, and to seek applications in music-making, music analysis, psychoacoustics, or philosophy.

Steffen Krebber is a composer, sound artist, and researcher. His work spans computer music, instrumental and electroacoustic composition, sound art, research, language, epistemology, sociology, and media art.

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