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Godfried Toussaint devotes a chapter to these interlocking rhythms in his Geometry of Musical Rhythm, where he calls them "Complementary Rhythms".

He notes that two of the most important rhythms in sub-Saharan Africa, the 7 onset Bembé and the 5 onset Fume-Fume (in rotation) are complementary and are often played that way.

As an aside the Bembé, in modulo 12 (clock arithmetic) is directly analogous to the major scale and the Fume-Fume is directly analogous to the penatonic.

Here some more references if need be:

https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Composition-Gerhard-Nierhaus-ebook/dp/B00DZ11AIC

https://www.amazon.com/Geometry-Musical-Rhythm-What-Makes-ebook/dp/B00CLZSUN6

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/music-transformer and https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04281

EDIT: actually randomness in music was by no way invented by Cage but already applied e.g. by Ockegehem, Bach or Mozart.