Author: Rachel Wells Hall
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Audacity
http://www.audacityteam.org
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History of Algorithmic Composition
http://www.ece.umd.edu/~blj/algorithmic_composition/algorithmicmodel.html
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Mozart’s Dice Game
https://www.mozart-game.cz
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Online virtual MIDI keyboard
http://www.caseyrule.com/projects/piano/
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Syllabus
Sounding Number: Music and Mathematics from Ancient to Modern Times, FALL 2019 Instructor: Dr. Rachel Hall Office: 238 Barbelin Office Hours: M 3:00-5:00, W 9-10, Th 12:30-2:30, and by appointment E-mail: [email protected] Class URL: thesoundofnumbers.com Course description: Music has many connections to mathematics. The ancient Greeks discovered that chords with pleasing sounds are related to simple ratios…
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Stone Temple Pilots: Vasoline
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Ghanaian drummers
We experience time as simultaneously linear (on a timeline) and cyclic (on a clock)–a fact that turns out to be interesting mathematically. How is this music organized in time? What are the roles of the individual drummers?
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Vacuum Cleaner “Music”?
From the film The Triplets of Belleville (Chomet 2003). When is a vacuum player “music?” Is the presence of the audience and stage relevant to what we call “music,” or not?
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Wolfram Tones
http://tones.wolfram.com/#NKM-G-30-31-2290167177-0-9700-184-92-4-2773-49-0-35-301-35-502-27-901-0-0-0-0-322 Can a mathematical algorithm (set of instructions) make music?
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The “music” of silence
Is John Cage’s 4’33” music? If not, what about the silences (“rests”) in the middle of a song? Here’s an interview with Cage in which he challenges common assumptions about music. An interesting contrast to the definition I proposed–“music is the art of organizing sound in time”–is made by him here: “If music is the “enjoyment” of…