A New Kind of Science
This amazing book is about music, but with a scientific point of view, according to the author’s theory all music has it own mathematical algorithm, this one is a good example to show these facts, it is a good theory, but in most cases on the examples, it can be compared with compositions created by human beings since it only fulfills the requeriments for the genre.
I always think about this intersting issue, but I have developed my own theory and it goes in other direction, I mean, we can understand the algorithm created by music but my question would be: How can human beings assimilate and codify music, depending on what basis or influences?
I think if you add more complexity on a melody or a rhythm, people can’t assimilate or codify it as good as a simplier one, and obviously they can’t easily enjoy it.
Am I right? Please post your opinion about this.
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Hello! One funny thing about these 2.0 websites is that they do aproach people with similar thoughts and taste! I completely subscribe your article about jazz from yesterday. It is very rare to encounter such a similar opinion. I mean not many people enhace Bruno E, Hajime Yoshizawa, Nostalgia 77, Kaidy Tatham, Nicola Conte on the same page!
I’m also very interested on music and science. Just bought the book “This is Your Brains on Music” by Daniel J. Levitin that I plan to read during this summer. Very stimulating, the book is written by a neuroscientist that used to be a musician and sound producer. I believe there are more books about music cognition but this is indeed a very fresh area of research…
Keep on! Antonio