numbers
It was Pythagoras who made the connection between music and numbers so this is a natural inspiration for me. We often don't think of numbers when we think of music or art in general but they are a crucial aspect of music. Numbers are deeply ingrained in music from scale and chord tones through the circle of fifths to the time signatures we use to count out beats.
Does that mean that composing music simply entails following the numbers? Not at all. But, numbers can provide musical ideas and numbers can give order to musical chaos allowing me to form that chaos and noise into pleasing melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Fibonacci numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..........
Archimedes' Constant: pi 3.14159......
Imaginary numbers: any real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i² = −1.
Planck's Constant: 6.62607004 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
Rational Numbers: any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers, a numerator p and a non-zero denominator q
Avogadro's Constant: 6.02214086 × 1023 mol-1
Irrational Numbers: all the real numbers that are not rational numbers
The Golden Ratio: 1.6180339887....
Transcendental Numbers: any number that is not algebraic—that is, not the root of a non-zero polynomial of finite degree with rational coefficients
Does that mean that composing music simply entails following the numbers? Not at all. But, numbers can provide musical ideas and numbers can give order to musical chaos allowing me to form that chaos and noise into pleasing melody, harmony, and rhythm.
Fibonacci numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34..........
Archimedes' Constant: pi 3.14159......
Imaginary numbers: any real number multiplied by the imaginary unit i, which is defined by its property i² = −1.
Planck's Constant: 6.62607004 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
Rational Numbers: any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction p/q of two integers, a numerator p and a non-zero denominator q
Avogadro's Constant: 6.02214086 × 1023 mol-1
Irrational Numbers: all the real numbers that are not rational numbers
The Golden Ratio: 1.6180339887....
Transcendental Numbers: any number that is not algebraic—that is, not the root of a non-zero polynomial of finite degree with rational coefficients