![]() There are no limits beyond those we set upon ourselves. In the unsexy numbers, I found creative boundaries in a vast musical universe. This simple exercise gives direction based on a series of numerical parameters. I can also do this starting on any one of the four notes. For example, let’s start on A:Ī B C D A B D C A C B D A C D B A D B C A D C B Four columns for each starting note, and 6 ways to rearrange the other 3 notes in the series. I have 24 different ways I can arrange those four notes. This ran twice as an undergraduate mathematics course in 20, and then again in 2003 as a Fresh-man Seminar. ![]() Eventually, I had so much material that I decided it would be fun to try to teach a course on the subject. If I have four notes, let’s say, key of A Minor of sound and music and its relations with mathematics, a journey that soon outgrew these origins. The mathematics of harmonic relationships illuminated a path ahead. When I had followed my muse to a musical corner where I was stuck. I found the mathematics of music was good for two things:Ĭatalyzing my creativity when I wasn’t feeling inspired, caffeinated, or when I was hungover thanks some tequila loving bachelor party buddies. But I found that the math of music was AS eloquent and elegant as that of high level mathematic.Īnd while it took a bit to balance the emotional instinct of songwriting with the data driven mathematics of harmonic relationship, I found that there exists a beautiful harmony between them. I can compose, and songwrite with the best of them, and I have the piece of University stamped paper to prove it. If you do repeat a note, then the math gets tiring and I don’t want to. I’d often find myself in the back of calculus doing calculations on how many different ways you can arrange the 12 notes in an octave if you don’t repeat them (Thank you, Arnold Schoenberg).īTW, there’s a little over metric f-load, over 479 million different ways, if you don’t repeat them. They’re constant across the universe, the language to describe them changes but the one is always one, no matter what word, bleep, or alien fart you use to define it.Īfter a bit, I knew I’d made a mistake. I did a two year associates degree, transferred the credits, and began taking some high level math & science shit. ![]() After I graduated high school, I started down the path of an engineering degree. ![]()
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