Tag: Mathematics
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Free lessons on harmonics, waves and dissonance
I stopped geeking about microphones and audio interfaces for a second and got dragged into a rabbit hole on harmonics, waves and dissonance. (long story, involving trying to remove room tone/echo so I can record in the bathroom). I dropped in on Adam Neely‘s channel for a video about of all things, Celine Dion (?)…
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The Fluid Dynamics of Van Gogh
Vincent had a turbulent life, but it seems he depicted a reality of the universe that no-one could see with fluid turbulence, later described by mathematics and physics. Spook! Art leads science shocker. (via Jez Biggs)
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Cybernetic Serendipity and the Eccentricity Electric
Fascinating clip from 1968 about the ICA’s 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, which currently has a retrospective at the ICA, and the album, claimed to be the first electronic music compilation (not sure about that, I thought Music From Mathematics from 1962 had that title?) has been re-released, although it seems you can download it here.…
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The Sound of Pi and Phi
I HATED Maths as a kid, but have to say I love Numberphile, been watching hours of this via the previous video. I’m guessing this is supposed to be for teenagers, I really wished I had something like this when I was doing maths. I think if someone had introduced Pi, Golden Mean and suchlike…
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Nature and Numbers – Happy Phi Day!
I knew about the Fibonacci sequence which starts this film and the golden ratio (which becomes the golden spiral when the Fibonacci sequence is plotted out. and is a ratio used not only in nature but also architecture) but not some of the other mathematics in this entrancing film from Cristóbal Vila. Love the Wim…