Math & Music: The Severed Alliance. Some Recent Academic Approaches (Do Not Read If You Hate Drums)

Seriously the part I read was kind of interesting but I didn't want to follow him all the way into Chopin's Tesseract. I think the Modalogy's Chromatic Cube concept might be more useful.

http://www.modalogy.net/ask.html

I've been listening to Beethoven symphonies a lot lately actually and was thinking about how "square" (not necessarily in a bad way) the rhythms often are, and I was thinking about how unlike the rhythms of most of the world's other cultures these rhythms are, although they still tend to be a westerner's frame of reference for interpreting other culture's rhythms (even the fact that we think of a son clave as "3/2" is evidence of this.) I'm guessing there's some explanation that stems from the invention of the clock and from militarism (marching rhythms).

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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-beethovens-metronome-wrong-9140958/
http://www.ams.org/notices/201309/rnoti-p1146.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJAgrUBF4w

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-seriously/2013/06/13/chladni-figures-amazing-resonance-experiment/

Which links to http://skullsinthestars.com/2013/05/02/physics-demonstrations-chladni-patterns/

Just was in contact with a guy who played on Dmitri T's record but he didn't have to read the book first.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/features/the-enduring-myth-of-music-and-maths-2307387.html

Exactly

http://docstudio.tvo.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/masterseries_620x350/The-Man-Who-Saved-Geometry%5B1%5D_0.jpg

^H.S.M or Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, musically inclined mathematician, Bourbaki antagonist and King of Infinite Space.

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Mathematics-From-Pythagoras-Fractals/dp/0199298939
Know nothing about this book except I have enjoyed one of the editors writings on graph theory.

http://galileospendulum.org/2012/06/29/galileo-was-a-kickin-lute-player/

(Warning, considered posting on worst writing about music thread)

Could have sworn one dj on WKCR Bachfest was introduced as Terry Tao.

Right now, listening to Rob Schneiderman playing with his old buddy Brian Lynch's Unsung Heroes. Pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MzKx0fKg5o

Had this discussion the other day and it almost got a little heated.