About Rhythmdo
About Rhythmdo
Rhythmdo is a site that reconstructs music theory around the central importance of rhythm. For nearly half a century, Japanese jazz has been criticized as “uninteresting.” I have spent many years working passionately to build a theory of how Japanese jazz can become compelling.
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The site operator, Atsushi Oka, has been active for more than 30 years as a jazz guitarist, programmer, and language researcher.
He spent 12 years living overseas, mainly in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Laos, and China, and acquired Thai, Lao, Chinese, English, and dialectal varieties of Japanese.
Based on his experience in both musical performance and language acquisition, he developed original rhythm theories such as Tatenori Theory, the Offbeat Count Method, and Distributed Groove Theory.
