Good news..The Math says it all!

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The clip wasn't really about the math in my opinion, Jim. I think humankind is drawn to certain tones and there are only so many of those. And it isn't even limited to cultural influence sometimes.

And I think it's difficult for a lot of the artsies of the world to accept the fact that math is the deity of music. Its supreme ruler without question.

 

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I tried to get a picture of a supreme ruler and I got this:

[Mach]

math is the deity of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa8U0nL-KXg

[Gnasty]

Yeah so get up off your ath and do some math!!

And here I was thinking this thread would have 0 comments.

But 0 is a number. I'm a 0! I'm alive! 

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But 0 is a number. I'm a 0! I'm alive! 

Number 0 - That would be the coolest band name!

[Oldrottenhead]

music is math but the guy is using "bad" math. music is also much more: feel, ambience, tones, sounds, instruments, space, silence, rhythm, timbre, time, location, quantum physics  etc etc etc infinite combinations.

 you could use the  same "bad" math for digital photography and get the same wrong answer. a digital photograph is made up of 0's and 1's too but you are never gonna run out of new photos.

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I understand what you say, but even the underlying principle to music, instruments, sound, delivery and the resultant quality is math. Especially modern music, but even from days of old. In order to reproduce something, it has to be measured.

I suppose if you hand made an instrument without measuring it, and made unconventional sounds with no intent of sharing them that's music, but it's more of a schizophrenic ramble at that point. I'm with you on the artistic part as that is what drives myself as well, but it only goes so far.

And the dude's point could easily be modified to fit the viewpoint of a digital camera. There are only so many pixels that will make a discernible photo - The rest will be unusable, so it narrows down the visual possibilities considerably. Permutations aren't exactly math, but they play a considerable role determining what is available and what isn't. As usable light has a measurable spectrum with no "feel" component, it would seem that photography would be easier to define mathematically than music.

I guess all that I am saying is that I don't think appying mathematics to anything is "pish". It helps us understand things better. Just like your deep study of quantum physics helps you understand things better.

[Oldrottenhead]

I guess all that I am saying is that I don't think appying mathematics to anything is "pish".

i aggree with you but the guy is using bad mathematics.

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Ok cool, I can buy that!!

[T.C. Elliott]

Is he using "bad math" or making poor assumptions? I'm not saying I agree with his logic, but I think in a round about way he's giving us another way to make the mental block monster go away. In other words, he's giving just one more perspective to look at music. A perspective that may be skewed and/or distorted, but surely it isn't a bad thing to look at it a different way from time to time, is it?