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Published online 7 January 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040105-4
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Techno hits basic beat
Musical analysis unveils a hierarchy of sophistication.
A form of music known as Javanese Gamelan has won one of the top prizes for rhythmic complexity, according to a novel kind of musical analysis1.
Heather Jennings of the Federal University of Alagoas in Brazil and her colleagues conclude that Gamelan - an Indonesian style of music featuring gongs, drums, wind and string instruments - is as sophisticated as Western classical music in terms of its variations in volume.
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