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offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-10-14 18:58 [#00902359]
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very sinusoidal


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2003-10-14 18:58 [#00902360]
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music IS math

C3=44000
C2=22000
C4=88000
etc


 

offline theo himself from +- on 2003-10-14 19:27 [#00902374]
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anyone who knows anything about anything (esp. in music and
most particularly in this genre) would say YAY.

a strong yay.


 

offline Ganymede from Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius on 2003-10-14 21:50 [#00902425]
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I vote yea as well.


 

offline aron from saskatoon (Canada) on 2003-10-14 22:17 [#00902436]
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i dont like that song


 

offline handoverthecart on 2003-10-14 22:28 [#00902438]
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i'm not sure what math is, but i'd probably say that parts
of math are involved in parts of music..(?)


 

offline tallyho from Vladivostok (Russia) on 2003-10-14 22:34 [#00902441]
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this page is quite interesting... though it seems a bit
scary to me :D


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2003-10-15 06:00 [#00902692]
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that site was fucking great !


 

offline Jaysuz Jones from Wasaga Beach (Canada) on 2003-10-15 06:11 [#00902696]
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How do you account for improvisation without the aid of
digital instrumentation ?

Music = Math: nah.


 

offline rez from here on 2003-10-15 07:45 [#00902809]
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music is everything


 

offline uzim on 2003-10-15 08:17 [#00902849]
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no.

maybe music was math some centuries ago (like, XVIth
century or something... where it was all codified and all,
Descartes' first written work was about music but seen in a
scientific/mathematical point of view), but now not anymore!
maybe some music is math if you want, if you make
logarithmic music or something like that... for mostly some
electronic music and some classical music... but most music
isn't, in my opinion.

total improvisation can be music and it has nothing
mathematical! (unless you see things from a very
far-fetched point of view, like "everything is math"... -
and if you think like that you're freaking me out!!! °_°)

you can use math for music in some cases. but it is
in no way equal to music.

math is cold and soulless. (at least to me - if you think
math is beautiful and emotional, you're freaking me out!!!
°_°)
music can be emotional and warm.

math is laws and applications of laws, is an exact science
and leaves no place to creativity from what i know (does
it?).
music couldn't exist without creativity.


 

offline aphextriplet from your mothers bedroom (United Kingdom) on 2003-10-15 08:26 [#00902858]
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i think you stand a much better chance at making complicated
music if youre good at maths. Its all numbers. Not to say
there arent exceptions to the rule, i just think the two go
hand in hand


 

offline uzim on 2003-10-15 08:27 [#00902861]
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...and two and two always makes up five.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-10-15 08:32 [#00902866]
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the algorithms are in the computer program, not the music...
you can make music without software... most music is made
that way!


 

offline Ganymede from Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius on 2003-10-15 23:10 [#00903768]
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You ought to expand your ideas of what math really is,
IMHO.

It's more about discovering and/or creating various types of
patterns (spatial, temporal, numeric or totally abstract)
than just applying laws. There's tremendous amounts of room
for creativity in mathematics.


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-10-15 23:27 [#00903772]
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If there was any straight up logic to music/art then
computers could easily write great music and create great
art...
But it's not the case atall.
Maths isn't real - Numbers are only ways our Right Brain
quantifies things... Schools make a big mistake teaching
Newtonian physics to everyone and leaving it there - Gives
the majority of intelligent people the impression that
everything is quantifiable like a computer game.

Artistic appreciation and creation comes from the Left
hemisphere of the brain - It's a completely different world
from mathematics and logic - It's completely
unquantifiable.

The maths teaching in schools also leaves you with the
impression that everything can be broken down into equations
and rules - Totally untrue - In reality there are vast
oceans of unquantifiable and illogical truths - Maths only
covers tiny islands: geometry, calculus, etc... There is far
more to reality than right-sided logic - It's just that
modern day living is totally focused on it... I also don't
believe original thoughts/ideas could ever be broken down
into mathematical logic - Reality being broken down into
numbers and measurements is a complete illusion created by
the (over)rational mind - Numbers don't exist.

There is no such thing as "2 things" - There is only "A
thing" and "A thing" - There is no connection is any reality
except the right-sided brain's imagination.


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-10-15 23:29 [#00903775]
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I've met a lot of people whos minds simply cannot deal with
the concept that reality on a quantum scale is nothing like
a bunch of snooker balls floating in space - It's what most
intelligent people have been conditioned to think like - But
read up on modern physics and mathematical philosophy and
you'll realise those ideas are centuries old and completely
wrong.


 

offline E-man from Rixensart (Belgium) on 2003-10-16 01:34 [#00903837]
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word

what do you peoples think, that because you CAN put numbers
on musical phenomenon to explain them then they must be math
?! wtf, i think many people think more like sound=math...
because that is a lot more true...


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2003-10-16 01:40 [#00903841]
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measure, structure, form.

a very complex algorithm could describe a song


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-10-16 02:14 [#00903855]
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The thing is there's no real logic to what makes a great
tune.
Even on something as simple and quantifiable as a TB303 -
Which has a very mathematically limited sequencer and a very
finite number of possible sequences.
Yet even with something that simple you cannot write
software that can work out a good/great sequence from a crap
one.
If it could, it could just sit there all day making random
lines and rateing them until it hit upon that 1 in a million
best acid line ever created.
It's a problem of modern day life - We can only relate our
quantified, computerised logic to a thin slither of reality
- The middle dimensions (between quantum and astro physics)
- Yet most of what makes us who we are and where & what we
are follows no set logic atall.

The way we make and write music is not "music", it is just a
medium of artistic expression... Just as art isn't really
about the paint or brush you use, "art" is about direct
communication from one soul/ego to another.

So "music" is nothing to do with the notes, measures and
frequencies of pitches, they are merely a way we can
package/convey these abstract ideas and concepts aurally -
The music/art element is completely abstract and therefore
devoid of any reasoning or logic.


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-10-16 02:18 [#00903862]
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Think about this - When you're watching a DVD you're only
really watching numbers turned into colours on pixels - But
the exact numbers and pixels used are irrelevant - It's
merely a medium - The meaning we interpret is what we're
actually seeing and how we rate a film.


 

offline faaip_de_oiad from Sirius (United States) on 2003-10-16 03:25 [#00903907]
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Math is everything, so therefore music is math and math is
music.


 

offline X-tomatic from ze war room on 2003-10-16 11:51 [#00904438]
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math sucks


 

offline J Swift from United Kingdom on 2003-10-16 11:54 [#00904440]
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Arghhh!!

Haha,

Maths isn't real - Numbers don't exist!
Honestly! Think about it.

They're just a concept you can apply to certain aspects of
reality - But they are few and far between... I'm gonna have
to decondition half the worlds' population now!


 


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