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leios
music producer and sound designer ready for creating an audio-mathematical experience
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I'm a musician and sound designer with a decade of experience in producing audio content. As a mechanical engineer I have quite some math background. I like to use DAWs like Ableton Suite, some hardware synths but also love to use modular synths like the emulator VCV Rack. That is where you can really feel the connection between maths and music. Some of my main projects is producing electronic music (ambient, synth-wave, dub) under the name Tolik Amigo: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9prTKz7IRoN-2SHQTwYpgg https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AnPh0NxzlLnzfaXrU40rN
Target topic categories
Music is Math as Boards of Canada already said. There might be countless topics which could be explained in a musical form. Besides of producing audio content I could be a help in processing, mixing and mastering. I look forward to your ideas.
Target medium
I could think of creating suitable audio content in form of particular sounds, rythmic patterns, whole musical compositions etc. Especially if the Audio should be part of an experience of a mathematical context.
Contact details
We can establish contact here in the Github issue, if you want. Later we can switch to another platform if you wish.
(Any additional licensing information? If you do not say anything, this post will be considered CC-BY.)
Hi! My name is Dimitri (I posted in issue #83). Although my main interests are currently in number theory and other math topics, I also work as a music teacher and have loved songwriting and digital production in my free time. I have experimented with digitally producing audio of certain number sequences to look for patterns or harmonies, but I don't have much technical program experience beyond Garageband. If you'd ever like to chat about ideas of ways to turn certain number sequences into audio, feel free to hit me up at [email protected]
Hello! I've had a video idea for a while to use time signatures to explain the Chinese Remainder Theorem or just plain modular arithmetic. Here's my channel if you'd like to see my previous work. Feel free to email me at [email protected]
Hi, I have an idea for explaining the surprising effectiveness of 12-tone equal temperament (12TET) in music. It relies on having a perfect octave in your scale (as all modern TET systems do), and expressing a perfect fifth as a rational number -- the number of intervals to the fifth divided by the number of steps in your TET system. This is impossible, it would be equivalent to writing 2 as a rational power of 1.5, but we can get very close with certain TET systems.
A fantastic tool for finding rational approximants to an irrational number is continued fraction representations. Using this, we can show that 12TET is the best approximation to the perfect fifth (2 cents difference is not detectable by human hearing) until we get to 29TET and 41TET, which are pretty cumbersome.
Many other important intervals can be constructed using perfect fifths and octaves (for example, the major second is 2 stacked perfect fifths reduced by an octave), so having an accurate perfect fifth gives many other notes in the scale for free.
I think it'd be really cool to be able to play other TET systems, along with just intonation, to sonically illustrate the points. There is music written in 24TET, 29TET, and 41TET (along with many other systems!) which could be a good resource as well.
Perception scientist here.
My post is #176, but I think we might be able to do something different together that is specialized around sound, perception, & emotion.
