Concentric Rhythm 4+
Jeff Holtzkener
Designed for iPad
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- £3.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Concentric Rhythm is an interactive tool for generating, developing, and exploring musical patterns. It uses geometric transformations and many other simple processes to create, develop, and evolve music.
The looping musical timeline is visualized as a circle, which allows you to treat musical patterns as concentric shapes. This makes performing geometric transformations such as rotations, reflections and folding very natural and intuitive.
It also provides tools for melodic lines such as random-walk generation and scale-based inversion and transposition.
You can generate rhythmic lines using cross-rhythms or the Euclidean algorithm, and allows for great visualisations of complex polyrhythms.
Concentric Rhythm now allows you to assign each pattern to a different MIDI channel and send your results to other MIDI compatible apps or devices.
Concentric Rhythm was originally developed as a new way to improvise electronic music, but it is also a great tool experimenting with and developing musical material, or just for casually playing with music in a unique, hands-on, way.
Many of the ideas here were inspired by the book ‘The Geometry of Musical Rhythm’ and this app is a powerful tool for anyone who is interested in exploring these ideas. But at the same time is easy enough to use that anyone (even with no musical or mathematical background) can make interesting musical patterns and think about the musical world a little differently.
Note: There are known compatibility issues when used with AUM, especially on iOS 14
What’s New
Version 3.0.4
- can auto-save last MIDI Send value
- significant improvements for Audiobus and AUM hosting
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic App
First app that caught my attention after inheriting an I phone. Just playing with these rhythms in the app is an endless source of entertainment, fascinating how how your attention is drawn from element to element when you listen to a loop over a long period. Have the capacity to output midi now so with a little bit of work and a suitable assigned drum rack in Ableton I should have the basis for some interesting tracks. Have to say I enjoy the quality of the included samples.
Fantastic. Great UI. Great results.
Have barely started using this (in fact I didn’t even know what Euclidean rhythms even were until yesterday) , but the interface is so well put together that it strikes exactly the right balance between helping you just enough, without getting in the way, and lets you start experimenting straight away.
Sounds great, looks great as well.
Inspiring!
I was looking for an app that would allow me to experiment with polyrhythms & this one is just great!.. 10/10 to the person who had this idea. It’s a beautiful, elegant interface, with a very well designed look & feel.. I would love to see a paid version with more features, like being able to string together sequences of patterns.. great!! Well done & thanks!!
App Privacy
The developer, Jeff Holtzkener, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Jeff Holtzkener
- Size
- 46.5 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Jeff Holtzkener
- Price
- £3.99
- In-App Purchases
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- MIDI Send £4.99