Music + Math: Symmetry

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From Pythagoras' observations of the fundamental mathematical relationship between vibrating strings and harmony to the digitized musical world we enjoy today, The Majesty of Music and Mathematics with the Santa Fe Symphony and the Santa Fe Institute will explore the remarkable interweaving of the languages of music and mathematics.

[@CarlScripter]

I've always loved Bach. Since I was a young child, I have always felt like I could "see" his music -- like holes in a player-piano roll. It was chiefly his music that got me into MIDI in the late 1980s.
This really puts the pieces together. Thank you for this beautiful work of audio-visual art!

[@leorenier1]

music visualized helps people to listen. thank you. great job.

[@jackpullen3820]

Wish we had this tool in Choir in days past! Wonderful!!!

[@johnr7030]

Fascinating! Bach, what a mind!

[@CabalaProfissional]

wow! thanks for sharing that treasure!

[@nassimsabba8922]

Bach has been the smartest person ever, before Newton, Einstein, Von Neuman...
Thanks. Beautiful presentation.

[@Alien_at_Large]

Can anyone tell me what software produced that image?

[@youssef45031]

Great job

[@aliekbergok2794]

amazing

[@jkmarksongs]

Great Bach and mind blowing sir

[@tranlangamingo5409]

The uneducated mind doesn't understand this but still appreciate its beauty.

[@itmemo8617]

Audio fractal

[@NickChristakis]

Music is math

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Actually this only works for the wrong music theory based on equal-tempered tuning whereas the empirical truth of music is noncommutative phase as Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes points out. If C is 1 and octave C is 2 then G is 3 as Perfect Fifth while F is 3 as subharmonic Perfect Fifth, meaning G=3=F at same time as noncommutative phase. This truth got covered up ever since Archytas and Plato taught that Perfect Fifth plus Perfect Fourth = Octave which only works using 3/2 as Perfect Fifth C to G and lies or conceals the truth of C to F as 2/3 Perfect Fifth, subharmonic. So math professor Luigi Borzacchini says how this cover up of the music origins of Western math is "really astonishing" and "shocking" and created a "pre-established deep disharmony" that guides Western science - again from the wrong music theory. So the truth is NOT symmetry but as Sir Roger Penrose states, time is inherently asymmetric from the Big Bang and so has time-frequency as noncommutative phase creating quantum nonlocality. as Alain Connes points out - a "universal scaling system" with a geometric dimension of zero as a quantum sphere.

[@Ivan_1791]

A tuning system can be wrong and completely correct depending on the point of view. There are no absolute truths in music.

[@pooliansshots6731]

Bach's music is too mathematical and therefore lacks emotion. I prefer Schubert.