Contrary to this line of thinking, classical music has already achieved a harmony, if you will, between music and science. But the link is the biophysics of the human singing voice and well tempered tuning. The registers of the voice are the basis for the musical scales and keys for classical composition. The epitome of this relationship appears in the works of J.S. Bach. Musical instrumentation extends and enhances this lawful interrelationship. This was furthered by the compositions of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms and their epigones.
In the mid to late nineteenth and twentieth centuries arbitrary melodic chromaticism and defiance of this lawfulness began to hold sway with such anti-well tempored inventions as the twelve tone row. However, this does not negate the true science of well tempering.
In what sense does an orchestra parallele the masses, geologies, plasmas, liquids and ethers, orbits and reactions present in the universe? not that much. metaphysical not science.
the sound generated within the universe (chaos/mass based) is very different to music. Music uses psychologically relevant patterns, it is sonic art. the application of maths and physics to "music" which is composed, generally fails, and the only corrective factor is using human interpreted rythm and melody consonsance dissonance and all that. Nothing in the universe uses 12 tone selectively matched wavelengths to create a highly ordered chord system with octaves. general midi tuning is indeed well tempered as gumbob seems to imply. they are not reconciling very fertile fields together: SIMPLICITY IS KEY when matching useful sciences, similar to biomimickery.
It would be cool to search for a relationship between birdsong and cosmology. they contain highly unrelated math patterns. it's same as attempting to make mathematical formulas to generate life and lifelike plants. it's something that only AI can do, because the algorythms take verrrrrrrry many exceptions and nuances, it's not in the realm of common human ability. and they seem to want to do the inverse, use biologically inspired sound to analyse the universe? omg
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Jul 6, 2017In the mid to late nineteenth and twentieth centuries arbitrary melodic chromaticism and defiance of this lawfulness began to hold sway with such anti-well tempored inventions as the twelve tone row. However, this does not negate the true science of well tempering.