How Catchy Music is Driven by Rhythmic Patterns

I've been doing a lot of research on the phenomenon of Euclidean Rhythms for my music theory class. You may remember Euclid from math class as the father of geometry. He also invented an algorithm that can be used for all sorts of things including generating rhythms that are as evenly spaced as possible.

A fascinating article on how the human brain processes even rhythms explains exactly why we gravitate towards and remember these patterns so easily. It's a bit mind-bending, but people use Euclidean rhythms all the time whether they know it or not!