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The Geometry of Music

Posted by kdawson on from the fantasia-with-strings dept.

An anonymous reader notes a Time.com profile of Princeton University music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko, who has applied some string-theory math to the study of music and found that all possible chordal music can be represented in a higher-dimensional space. His research was published last year in Science — it was the first paper on music theory they ever ran. The paper and background material, including movies, can be viewed at Tymoczko's site.

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  1. Dirk Gently by freaknl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Am I the only one who immediately thought of the computer scientist in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?

    1. Re:Dirk Gently by Decameron81 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Am I the only one who immediately thought of the computer scientist in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?


      Yes.
      --
      diegoT
  2. Applied theory by Blighten · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally there's a hard piece of work that demostrates the usefulness of String Theory.... oh wait.... it doesn't.

  3. Re:Well... by Yoozer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quit channeling Stockhausen ;).

  4. ObligatoryJack Black quotation by Potor · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!