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A sound art and music blog.
Submissions welcomed.

  1. 21 February 2012

    6 notes

    • Music
    • Science
    • Fractal
    • Math
    • Daniel Levitin
    • cp
    [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

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    Math pattern found in nature also found in music. Daniel Levitin has found, hidden within nearly 2,000 pieces of classical music, a mathematical pattern that not only holds constant over 400 years of musical history, but also corresponds to fluctuations in everything from the human heartbeat to traffic flow on busy highways. - Cape Breton Post

    Heard this on NPR this morning. 



  2. 28 August 2011

    30 notes

    • educational
    • science
    • math
    • sound
    • cp

    What is up with Noises? (The Science and Mathematics of Sound, Frequency, and Pitch) (by Vihart) (via @plural)



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