The video van be watched here:
Rhythm is at the centre of humanity, one who knows rhythm knows the world
This 2.5-minute special performance and video feature Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead) along with legendary percussionists Sikiru Adepoju, Zakir Hussain, Giovanni Hidalgo, and a posthumous appearance by the West African drum virtuoso Babatunde Olatunji. Supporting the aforementioned is a cast of 70 traditional drummers in India, led by Zakir Hussain, legendary Puerto Rican percussionist (and father of Giovanni Hidalgo) José Manuel Hidalgo "Mañengue" along with singers and support drummers from that great island, in addition to dancers from Ghana and a 5000 person drum circle led by Mickey Hart! The song and video are set to the most referenced and universally used rhythm called ‘clave’. The clave is the basis, serving as a skeletal rhythmic figure, around which various drums and percussion are played in most African, Caribbean, South American, and New Orleans music, amongst others. Through the rhythms of this song, hearts are connected and differences disappear, illuminating how deeply humanity is interconnected and revealing the truth of the adage. This musical production will be part of a special opening to the UN General Assembly high-level meeting taking place on 22 September 2021 in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) on the theme “Reparations, racial justice and equality for people of African descent”
The video van be watched here:
Rhythm is at the centre of humanity, one who knows rhythm knows the world
A research film in the original version by Thomas Roebers and Floris Leeuwenberg. “Foli” is the word used for rhythm by the Malinke tribe in West Africa. But Foli is not only found in Malinke music, but in all parts of their daily lives. Directed by Thomas Roebers, this short film portrays the people of Baro, a small town in eastern-central Guinea, and gives you a glimpse inside their culture of rhythm. As the Malinke man says, “Tous les choses, c’est du rythme.” (“Everything is rhythm.”)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY
Roebers, T. (2010, October 25). Retrieved July 27, 2018
Druk, druk druk: de gemiddelde Nederlander heeft steeds meer te doen en steeds minder tijd. Maar hebben we het wel zo druk? Is het niet eerder zo dat onze tijdsbeleving is verstoord? De tijd is in onze beleving niet slechts een opeenvolging van dagen, maar een door cultuur en natuur bepaald geheel van onderbrekingen en afwisselingen. In Ritme brengt Marli Huijer de ritmes in kaart die het leven in onze tijd bepalen. Wat is een verstoord ritme, en wat is een goed ritme? En wat is het belang van ritmes voor onze samenleving?
Huijer laat zien hoe het internet, de smartphone en de 24-uursecononomie ervoor zorgen dat veel van onze vaste ritmes worden verstoord. Het is nu mogelijk om op elk gewenst moment online te gaan en mensen over de hele wereld te spreken. 's Avonds en in het weekend werken is al lang geen taboe meer. Momenten die voorheen gescheiden waren, beginnen nu steeds meer door elkaar heen te lopen. Dit boek zet ons ertoe aan ons eigen ritme te hervinden.
This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this – how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of arts, science and technology, and in so doing, presents philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human connectivity in our digital age.
The book presents frameworks and methods for conducting research and study of tacit engagement that includes ethnography, experiments, discourse analysis, gesture analysis, psycholinguistic analysis, artistic experiments, installations, and improvisation. Case studies illustrate the use of various methods and the application and emergence of frameworks.
Tacit Engagement will be of interest to researchers, designers, teachers and students concerned with new media, social media and communications networks; interactive interfaces, including information systems, knowledge management, robotics, and presence technologies.
Not since Michael Polanyi have we seen such wise science about the tacit: how we know more than we can tell. Gill brings to the present era of design and data a profoundly needed perspective on meaning that comes from social dialogue, skilled performance, relational gesture and rhythm. – Sha Xin Wei, Ph.D. (Synthesis, ASU)
In order to order or download the book, you can find the link to Springer here.
This website is curated by Pascal Michon, who has been engaged with research into rhythm for over 25 years, Articles are in French mainly, but also in English. Michon argues that Rhythm is a new field within the social sciences.
In 2016 the Amsterdam municipality asked a group of its creative civil servants to come up with ideas for making the city 'more balanced'. One of the initiative was to make an exhibition on the Rhythm in different Amsterdam movements. It was shown on the Rokin. Here are the panels of this exhibition.
The data analyses and visualisations are made by Alessandro Bozon and Achilles Psylidis at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions and Delft University of Technology in 2015-2016.
Hier zie je de resultaten van dit onderzoek: Stad in balans
The rhythm analysis can be performed by using many different methods, in various urban areas or non-urban contexts, and by different actors. This article will talk about the experience with rhythm analysis during my masters studies in architecture, which was the consulted method for defining a critical view on the numerous problems in rapidly developing urban environments. The context of the presented rhythm analysis was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where fascinated by the colorful life of the informal settlements and their contrast with the newly developed areas, an attempt of looking at this reality in an objective view was performed.
Identification and analyses of rhythm in large datasets requires a visualisation techniques for making results comprehensive. Katy Börner, Exhibit Curator and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, has started the Places and Spaces project over 10 years ago. Every year she invites academics and artists to visualise and conceptualise new ways of understanding complex data. This has resulted in an impressive exhibition that travels the world. For the research into rhythm this work is interesting for being able to better understand how large datasets can, and do not in some cases, communicate.
Scientists have known for centuries that sunflowers track the Sun across the sky, turning their flowers from east to west as the day progresses. But a team of scientists has finally been able to figure out exactly how this happens. It turns out that sunflower swings are caused by an internal circadian rhythm, or body clock, and this daily shift in position not only improves the flowers' leaf size, but also makes them more attractive to bees.
2.6 Rhythmanalytical Concept from page 33