Music QOTD, from Jeff Watson
Heard a great quote today while driving and listening to SiriusXM. No clue who said it but enjoying this nugget of deliciousness from the meal for a lifetime:
Music is mathematics for the ears.
Ed. note: [attributed to Stockhausen]
Art Cooper writes:
Here's another, in a similar vein:
Geometry is frozen music.
Peter Saint-Andre chimes in:
Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it
is calculating. - Leibniz
Music is mathematics - and architecture is music in stone. - Ayn Rand
Andy Aiken builds on the theme:
Goethe said, "Architecture is frozen music".
There aren’t physical geometric forms, but many physical representations of geometry, such as in architecture.
Nils Poertner suggests:
Christopher Wolfgang Alexander
(born 4 October 1936 in Vienna, Austria)is a widely influential British-American architect and design theorist, and currently emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His theories about the nature of human-centered design have affected fields beyond architecture, including urban design, software, sociology and others.
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steve on October 14, 2021 6:22 pm
the genuine roots of culture is folk music - John Lydon