The Sound of Numbers A Tour of Mathematical Music Theory

Architecture, City and Mathematics: The Lost Connection

The connection between architecture and science and sound based on mathematical relations has continued to develop[ since the rise of the Western classical civilization that originated in Ancient Greece. The mysterious Pythagorean cosmology pursued as secret esoteric knowledge was related to the search of rhythm, proportionality and harmony. Even somewhat earlier, Greek mysteries were based on ...

Anthropological Study of Folk Music in Gilan Province in Iran (Instrumental Music)

Ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. The term ‘Ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

شکل‌گیری فضا در اثر پیوند مفهومی «موسیقی – ریاضی» و معماری (مطالعه‌ی موردی: جلوخان و آسمانهِ گنبدخانهِ مسجدِ شیخ‌لطف‌الله اصفهان)

In traditional architecture, the adherence of architects to the rules and proportions in numbers, geometry and music is present in designing and shaping many public monuments, and mathematical proportions, artistic ratios, or musical proportions are used in geometry of these buildings. Extracting and matching mathematical rules and proportions and examining them in the architecture of the tradi...

Critique of Research Books (Art) / Voices to See: A Review of Sound and Music in Documentaries, Mohammad Nasr Ahadi

SORISU: Sound with Numbers

It is surely not difficult for anyone with experience in the subject known as Music Theory to realize that there is a very definite and precise relationship between music and mathematics. This paper describes the SoriSu, a new electronic musical instrument based on Sudoku puzzles, which probe the expressive possibilities of mathematical concepts in music. The concept proposes a new way of mappi...