Carlos Guedes, Konstantinos Trochidis, and Akshay Anantapadmanabhan were awarded the “Best Paper Award” at the 15th Sound and Music Computing Conference (4-7 July, Limassol, Cyprus) with their paper “Modeling Carnatic rhythm generation: A data-driven approach based on rhythmic analysis” (Guedes, Trochidis & Anantapadmanabhan, 2018 ). This paper was presented in the context of the work developed in the project, “Computationally-engaged approaches to rhythm and musical heritage: Generation, analysis, and performance practice.”