The Beauty of Math and Music | Marcus Miller | TEDxOttawa

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  • Musician and Mathematician Marcus Miller simplifies "infinity + infinity = infinity" and how this helps us to experience our personal beauty with life affirming, paradigm shifting beauty of math and music. Learn more at www.marcustheartyst.com Marcus Miller began his studies in saxophone at age nine and, with the help of World Renown Saxophonist Bruce Williams (Roy Hargrove, World Saxophone Quartet), he developed a passion that put him on stage professionally at 13. With gifts extending beyond the music, he graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Mathematics. After a short stint at a multibillion dollar hedge fund he moved to New York City to pursue music. He soon developed a reputation as a versatile and virtuosic player, while studying music production and engineering under Grammy-Winning Engineer “Bassy” Bob Brockman (Notorious B.I.G, Herbie Hancock, D’Angelo). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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  • @PhylumVertebrae
    @PhylumVertebrae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Someone actually put it into words, conceptualizad it, and I’m speechless...because that’s exactly what it feels like when you start getting it, realizing the immensity that you are

    • @Skellotronix
      @Skellotronix 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best ways to show someone the truth, Fibonacci sequence and Mandelbrot set. Those two will either wake people up or expose those who refuse to learn. Named after God for a reason..

  • @factsix2156
    @factsix2156 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    All math teachers should carry a saxophone into class !

    • @lizmoore1947
      @lizmoore1947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No disagreement here, it'd be cool, but tbh, just having teachers be this passionate would inspire students to listen.

    • @morrismutunga7622
      @morrismutunga7622 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here-Here!!!

  • @martinramos1737
    @martinramos1737 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My take from this was that math is infinite and music is infinite, and that infinity is beautiful. I was expecting a talk about direct correlation between mathematics and music but instead it was just a redundant talk about those two things so I actually ended up pretty disappointed with this talk. Maybe going in with no expectations I could see how people love this

  • @giorgiodeguzman2892
    @giorgiodeguzman2892 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Honestly, one of the best most interesting, multi-talented+interdisciplinary talk I’ve ever heard trying to explain the inexplicable in more than words, sound, video editing, writing. I spotted so many untold jokes that I wasn’t sure if I was the only one spotting them.
    For one person to have created this lesson would boggle most minds, but I for one am grateful to have watched, listened, truly understood, and learned that I can try to explain things like this in my own life.

    • @marcusnorton9373
      @marcusnorton9373 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you watched it again? Sounds like it could be worth the frequent re-watch.

  • @OrenTube70
    @OrenTube70 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The eloquence of his speech seem almost unreal. This poetic presentation left me with an awkward sense: what did I actually learn?

    • @fobos9289
      @fobos9289 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beauty.

  • @YvesSaintLyric
    @YvesSaintLyric 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Your call to rethink how we identify beauty is so powerful. Thanks for this!

  • @UrbanHammer67
    @UrbanHammer67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Really liked this (maybe because I'm mathematician and musician;-)

  • @moltenfiya
    @moltenfiya 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What an awesome rendering of defining creativity! Bravo!!!

  • @emmazhang2418
    @emmazhang2418 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IVE CRIED IN A LONG TIME BECAUSE SOMETHING WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. THIS BEAUTY IS WHAT I WANT TO SPEND MY LIFE CHASING

  • @DudeNerdFail
    @DudeNerdFail หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Because infinity is cool let me play a riff real quick.

  • @paradoxinmotion
    @paradoxinmotion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a perfect talk!

  • @adryanbrown7541
    @adryanbrown7541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This video reminds em of the book "The Medici Effect" by Frans Johansson. This is a great example of the intersection that he speaks on in the book. This was a dope video! Math X Music >

  • @riteshkumarsah7828
    @riteshkumarsah7828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is precious ❤

  • @jerryhutson9478
    @jerryhutson9478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A brilliant soul!

  • @skaistejurksaityte4733
    @skaistejurksaityte4733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Marcus talks with a moving feeling, but stays perfectly reasonable, thats beautiful :)

  • @wyvernofhefei8712
    @wyvernofhefei8712 ปีที่แล้ว

    Math and Music, mmm the m duo, languages of truth.

  • @shantil7764
    @shantil7764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Majestic.

  • @goobatron
    @goobatron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    im trying to focus but all my brain can comprehend is that the carpet looks like a slice of lunch meat

    • @marcusnorton9373
      @marcusnorton9373 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do the schnozberries taste like schnozberries?

  • @TheFakeMikeLWatts
    @TheFakeMikeLWatts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I get it.... I get it. Brilliant. Thank you.🙏🏾

  • @natejohnson5393
    @natejohnson5393 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This was incredible

  • @crazythunderchief
    @crazythunderchief 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pure gold!

  • @bwacuff169
    @bwacuff169 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The way to think of music and math is easy: math is not involved with the creation of music (unless a composer specifically invokes the relationship when writing a piece by say, purposefully doubling the interval between each note in a X note long melody: half-step, whole-step, Major 3rd, diminished 6th, etc) however, music is especially suspectable to being deconstructed mathematically.
    In other words, Bach didn't use any math when writing his fugues however, his fugues are easily described with numbers.
    But, to a certain degree, this is illusionary: music is a language and any language can be broken down numerically, just like we break down music... it's just much easier with music. Subsequently, that's where most people focus on their being a relationship - they're related because they're easy to relate.
    Relating say, German to math is doable, but very few people would be able to do it.
    This occurs because of what music is:
    "The purposeful creation, and corralling, of tone in meter. The only one of these criteria that's actually required to communicate using the language of music is the last: meter."
    Without a beat, steady or otherwise identifiable (and not using a contrivance such as holding an instrument) we cannot recognize the language of music is being used.
    The essence of music then, is a beat. So the essence of music can be expressed as "counting" and if you're language is based on counting, it's going to end up relating to math in a huge number of easy-to-see ways.
    The previously mentioned language of German, is not root in counting therefore, while relatable to math, it's relationship is substantially more complicated and thus, less easy to see.

  • @alanjstahl
    @alanjstahl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing!

  • @sherardnatural
    @sherardnatural 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congrats!

  • @alexhancock9874
    @alexhancock9874 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was really good fun 😀

  • @noahcolegio7124
    @noahcolegio7124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I think i misunderstood what this would be

  • @EliasAxelPettersson
    @EliasAxelPettersson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In Hebrew, "Aleph" is pronounced with a soft "a", like "ah-lef". Keep up the great work :)

  • @coffeebirdtree
    @coffeebirdtree 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome! ❤️

    • @coffeebirdtree
      @coffeebirdtree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As a weird kid, i used to put myself between two angled mirrors and try to look into infinity 😀

  • @petrparizek9945
    @petrparizek9945 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    He didn't say one single thing about tunings. I would argue that nowhere else is music and maths linked more than in the field of tuning and intonation.

    • @asstatedbelow9599
      @asstatedbelow9599 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's actually the whole thing bruv... Either in the beginning or in the end but not in the middle or not at all

    • @petrparizek9945
      @petrparizek9945 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What do you mean?

    • @francescoscanu6957
      @francescoscanu6957 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nobody cares about sound or tuning correlation with physics and so mathematics, it's pointless and no worth studying.
      He's talking about how both with one and with the other you can reach and discover the same things and the same feelings.
      Things you don't achieve rationally and that probably no one will ever understand but everyone should search

  • @amandlathree
    @amandlathree ปีที่แล้ว

    I was never afraid of math. It isn’t like defending a point of view that requires thinking of every possible refutation, in order to “win,” an argument. There is only one right answer. I wish it hadn’t been presented, to us girls anyway, as something to be afraid of, or I would have majored in mathematics.

  • @luismanuelricogutierrez6863
    @luismanuelricogutierrez6863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What's the marimba's player full name? she's not credited in the description

  • @dickcastle
    @dickcastle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It was interesting but feel like he left out some parts

  • @rossharmonics
    @rossharmonics 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The problem which I have been dealing with since the 1970s comes from the fact that the modern theories of math and music has corrupted their original intents. I have developed an alternate cohesive theory of music theory, tuning theory, number theory, and geometry that I called eidetic mathematics.

    • @christina-ld4ci
      @christina-ld4ci 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you have a place on the internet where we can look into that?

  • @mindfulness6794
    @mindfulness6794 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    👏👏👏

  • @BuskerShanties
    @BuskerShanties 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is the tune that they play together? I know I've heard it before but I can't quite place it

  • @RoseMarieRaccioppi
    @RoseMarieRaccioppi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Music in harmonies... math in measure ...

  • @jrparmar05
    @jrparmar05 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ancient Purn shloka..
    Aum! That is infinite, and this (universe) is infinite.
    The infinite proceeds from the infinite.
    (Then) taking the infinitude of the infinite (universe),
    It remains as the infinite alone.
    Aum! Peace! Peace! Peace!

  • @cerulyse
    @cerulyse 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did I miss the bit where I explained why he's talking about numbers

  • @Porrimgaming413
    @Porrimgaming413 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He actually looks like a genius, especially with the Neo Cortex hairline. Loved the talk tho

  • @WA67FlyingV
    @WA67FlyingV 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There is a relationship between math & music but this guy didn’t explain it.

  • @sebasrichard
    @sebasrichard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    showed how music and maths are beautiful, but lost the occasion to explain the relationship between the two.....

    • @alinaivan93
      @alinaivan93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He explains the beauty of the relationship between the two quite beautifully from 16:35 (and earlier than that too)

    • @francescoscanu6957
      @francescoscanu6957 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cause the direct correlation is pointless

  • @youtubebot1874
    @youtubebot1874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i’m in 10th grade and i’ve never heard these terms before in my life i thought this was music class wtf (i’ve never heard of sum of these terms)

  • @danielaj3451
    @danielaj3451 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Was that a theme from pirates of Caribbean?

  • @judekariuki8614
    @judekariuki8614 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    why think within a line when imagination has no limits

  • @Katapolt415
    @Katapolt415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Pam Beasley?

    • @scemist
      @scemist 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I thought so as well 😅

  • @Katapolt415
    @Katapolt415 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When does Math hurt Music?

  • @Giannamadeit
    @Giannamadeit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:14 he sounds like drake

  • @AdityaPratama-qo4tp
    @AdityaPratama-qo4tp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    apakah dia Sujiwo Tedjo versi amerika??

  • @futabashinoda5992
    @futabashinoda5992 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this a real Marcus Miller!?!

    • @grldgcapitalz
      @grldgcapitalz 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      no but does anyone know actually the who this is how funny

  • @Ishaan_Garud
    @Ishaan_Garud 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If y'all think this is hard to comprehend, buddy I am 14years old and I grasped it all 😂

    • @i-frames816
      @i-frames816 ปีที่แล้ว

      Infinity in mathematics is so much more incomprehensible than showed in this video

  • @riteshkumarsah7828
    @riteshkumarsah7828 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why can't I understand this, 😡

  • @moltenfiya
    @moltenfiya 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sounds like Marcus, doesn't look like Marcus the bass player?

  • @mitchkahle314
    @mitchkahle314 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Math and geometry underly all of 12-tone Western music.

  • @lilbacon7777
    @lilbacon7777 ปีที่แล้ว

    This dude is talking a lot and not saying anything

  • @gabrielemarogna9444
    @gabrielemarogna9444 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Don't wanna spoil anybody's fun, but I think people who are mind blown simply are not used to thinking of art so much. I was looking for notions behind the hazy hype he created (with wonderful eloquence, for sure), and realized he basically only name-dropped some connections between the cognitive experiences, notions I can believe to be observable but which I find ultimately unhelpful. This mystifies art in a way I find unnecessary, and it's a shame, because it's clear the presenter did his best to DEmystify these concepts, but a 20 minutes talk is simply not enough, and risks leaving people without prior knowledge on the topic even more confused than when they entered, without having really learned anything.

    • @codyvandal2860
      @codyvandal2860 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The fixation on attempting to deliberately demystify strikes me as unhelpful. There is beauty in mystery

  • @GurjotSingh-uq4gj
    @GurjotSingh-uq4gj ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Play some saxophone man and cut the math thing...