13 9 / 2012
"You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change."
(Source: herewecollide, via twloha)
26 8 / 2012
Damn…
Damnnnn…..
One day…I will have that view myself, but until then. I wait :)
(Source: justgonnataketheprussiasway)
17 8 / 2012
La Mia Vita, Ma Vie: Soundtrack of my life
Put your iTunes on shuffle and create the soundtrack to your life.
Opening Credits: La Luna Hizo Esto -Il Volo
The Birth: Dead Star -Muse
Childhood: Never Grow Up -Taylor Swift
Teenage Life: La Baraja Bendita -Los Tigres Del Norte
Problems: Il Mare Calmo Della Sera -Andrea Bocelli
…
12 7 / 2012
05 5 / 2012
Images of Aggregation by Andy Lomas.
Lomas on his work:
These works come from a study of organic natural forms and their relationship to simple mathematical rules.
Influenced by the work of D’Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and Ernst Haeckel, they study how intricate forms of plant and coral like structures can be created by digital simulation of flow and deposition.
The sculptural shapes are created by a process of accretion over time. They are gradually grown by simulating the paths of millions of particles randomly flowing in a field of forces. Over time they build on top of an initial simple seed surface to produce structures of immense complexity.
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
05 5 / 2012
Dmitri Tymoczko — author of The Geometry of Music
- how to make visual representations of music
- (in paintings, video games, sculpture)
- 5 constraints on a composition that are necessary (but not sufficient) for it to sound good
- global statistical properties of songs
- why 20th century classical music had little audience
- a random painting is much less offensive to the eye than random notes are to the ear
- “I came up with these 5 principles using my brain, which is a kind of crude statistical device”
- the piano is essentially a line
- [NB: linear ⊃ monotonic ⊃ totally ordered]
- violin/voice musicians know that notes ⊂ continuous space, but the piano does us a favour by constraining us to a subset of those notes
- line
mod 13= circle- (equivalence classes of octaves —
A1=A2=A9andE4=E7=E12etc.)- directed segments, unordered tuples
- musical translation = mathematical transposition, musical inversion = mathematical rotation
- The fact that most people don’t have most perfect pitch (things sound the same in different keys) may be so that we can understand that, despite pitch differences in male/female adults’ speech and children’s speech, they are saying the same words.
- “It’s as if we couldn’t tell the difference between red and blue, but we were highly sensitive to the-difference-between-red-and-orange and the-difference-between-blue-and-green.
- [Also: this.]
- Minor vs major is the other isometry of the circle (besides rotation): reflection.
- “Harmonic progression is like zone defence”
- Minute 26: Awesome. Watch how to move around in 2-chord space — seen on a circle and on Tymoczko’s grid
01 5 / 2012
