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Results for: Creator / Instructor Rickard, Scott Resource Type Video Year 2011

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The Beautiful Math Behind The World's Ugliest Music

Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Costas Array. In this surprisingly entertaining talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty ... and its opposite.

Subjects:

Mathematics and Statistics

Keywords:

Repetition in music Mathematics Composition (Music)

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Video

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