Comments on: Explaining music through maths http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/03/31/explaining-music-through-maths/ Me fail English? That's unpossible! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:22:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: karen http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/03/31/explaining-music-through-maths/comment-page-1/#comment-32228 karen Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:19:55 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/?p=1001#comment-32228 these are fantastic. do you mind if i post one in another place to make ppl laugh? i don't know the copyright rules of this sorts of stuffs. thanks for the post! these are fantastic. do you mind if i post one in another place to make ppl laugh? i don’t know the copyright rules of this sorts of stuffs. thanks for the post!

]]> By: Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/03/31/explaining-music-through-maths/comment-page-1/#comment-16615 Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:15:52 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/?p=1001#comment-16615 [...] Explaining music through maths. [...] [...] Explaining music through maths. [...]

]]> By: Dave Bath http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/03/31/explaining-music-through-maths/comment-page-1/#comment-15226 Dave Bath Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:58:08 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/?p=1001#comment-15226 There was a whole Pulitzer Prize book on a similar topic by Douglas Hofstadter (?spelling?): "Godel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid" pointing out that the mathematical concept of recursion and transformations was a major part of the work of all three, thus linking maths, visual arts and music. But the music in this book was defined merely by pitch and time. The "music" you describe contains words, while the physical layout of air vents to improve bass response is physics (which is pretty much applied maths). There was a whole Pulitzer Prize book on a similar topic by Douglas Hofstadter (?spelling?): “Godel, Escher, Bach: the Eternal Golden Braid” pointing out that the mathematical concept of recursion and transformations was a major part of the work of all three, thus linking maths, visual arts and music.

But the music in this book was defined merely by pitch and time. The “music” you describe contains words, while the physical layout of air vents to improve bass response is physics (which is pretty much applied maths).

]]> By: blankshooting http://www.swollenpickles.com/2008/03/31/explaining-music-through-maths/comment-page-1/#comment-15222 blankshooting Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:27:53 +0000 http://www.swollenpickles.com/?p=1001#comment-15222 the flow chart is awesome, golden ration aside! the flow chart is awesome, golden ration aside!

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