Welcome one, welcome all to the Point at Infinity sideshow, where today we present a tantalizing and diabolical selection of musical and mathematical curiosities. I will likely primarily be posting there rather than here in the near future, though there may be some new content on Point at Infinity from time to time. I hope you will join me over at The Humming of the Strings. (I’m anticipating that most posts will consist of a non-technical body section followed by a technical appendix with details of the code.) I’m hoping that the details of the computer programming will be of interest to some readers, and I will try to make it as unintrusive as possible for those readers not interested in it. It is a wonderful tool for exploring the connections between math and music, and I plan on using it to create music and audio samples for The Humming of the Strings, and on sharing what I learn in this process with the readers. Over the last couple of years, I’ve sporadically been playing around with SuperCollider, an audio synthesis platform and programming language. There is another, more technical reason for this blog. This is why I’m starting The Humming of the Strings, to provide a place for more in-depth exploration of musical topics that might be out of place here. Mathematics and music are two passions of mine, and there is a vast field of ideas to explore here, many of which don’t necessarily fit here on Point at Infinity. These were among the most enjoyable posts for me to write, and some of them were among the favorites of readers as well. We had a post about the Shepard tone, an aural illusion that seems to perpetually rise in pitch, two posts about the Risset rhythm, the Shepard tone’s rhythmic cousin, and a post about Euclidean rhythms and their surprising connections with nuclear physics, computer graphics, and the Hebrew calendar. Loyal readers will remember a few posts here on Point at Infinity about music. I’m hoping to continue more regular posting now, though, starting with the announcement of a new project: Point at Infinity‘s first spin-off blog, The Humming of the Strings. Hello! I’m sorry that I haven’t been around much in the last few months, which have been rather busy for me. Mark van Hoeij on Circles 2: Defining Infin…Īshby Neterer on Zeno, Russell, and Borges on… Greifswald and the M… on Ultrafilters VII: Large C… Circles 3: Building Everything out of Nothing.Greifswald and the Mathematical Sublime. Follow Point at Infinity on Search for: Pages
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