February 21, 2003

  • underheart ‘blogs about a guy who wrote a treatise (in Latin, no less) which attempted to use math to predict all possible combinations of notes which would be pleasing to the human ear.

    With that in mind, I present today’s music:

    ‘Music Is Math‘ from Boards of Canada

    Boards of Canada seems to have a math theme going. They have songs with titles like: ‘The Smallest Weird Number,’ ‘Triangles & Rhombuses,’ and ‘Turquoise Hexagon Sun.’

    This leads me to ask myself: Is there a name for an art movement that could include Boards of Canada, and their geeky appeal? And it turns out…

    There is.

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    It turns out I should have gone to the Boards of Canada web site before posting this. Their site is one big experiment in process music, done in Shockwave.

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  • Excellent links — Thank you.
    FYI, my comment to Underheart:
    “If you do a Google search on harmony temperament, you will find ‘The Harmony Problem,’ and ‘Natural Temperament’ as the third and fourth search results. Both are attempts of mine to answer the same questions that Euler was investigating. Putting false modesty aside — My answers are better.”

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