Swing

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen have found out, that the rhythm is the result of micro-delays in musical timing. The results are published in 'Nature'. 

See: 

https://www.ds.mpg.de/swing 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-022-00995-z 

Edited April 22, 2023 by optatio

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It may be of interest to know more about the leader of this study:

https://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/tgeisel14/options.html 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Geisel_(physicist) 

As mentioned above he also is a jazz musician! I found him on discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/de/artist/11045429-Theo-Geisel-2 

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More about the study:

„What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery“

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2023/01/18/1139783203/what-makes-that-song-swing-at-last-physicists-unravel-a-jazz-mystery/