Estuary's Metre widget visualises cycle subdivisions and Euclidean/Bjorklund patterns against the live tempo

Estuary includes a Metre widget (invoked via metre N in the view DSL) that displays the ensemble’s running tempo as an animated visual — circular, rectangular, or bead-style. Users click the widget to add or remove subdivisions (the ‘m’ value) and, for bead visualisers, to add a ‘k’ value that activates a Euclidean/Bjorklund pattern on top: the bead pattern shows exactly which of the m steps are struck. This makes it a live pedagogical tool for demonstrating how rhythmic concepts such as Euclidean rhythms relate to the running cycle, and for synchronising acoustic instrumentalists with a live-coding ensemble.

Examples

In the Estuary view DSL: !localview 1x1 [metre 0] — opens a single metre widget at slot 0. Click the centre-up area to add subdivisions; on a bead visualiser click the centre to add a Euclidean onset ‘k’.

Assessment

Describe how you would use the Metre widget to show a E(3,8) Euclidean rhythm alongside a 16-step subdivision to a musician who has never seen mini-notation.