Harmony of Numbers

Sonata Islands Trio: Andrea Dindo piano, Emilio Galante flute and Walter Zanetti electronic guitar

Music , Jazz music
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Four composers, Zack Browning, Hubert Stuppner, Mario Pagotto and Emilio Galante, each one following his own sensitivity, explore the relationship between music and maths.

Actually, music and maths have always encountered in the history of ideas. Musicians have always used mathematical procedures in order to create their compositions. There is also a debate on the fact that Western music is a product of nature rather than of culture, because of its perfect mathematical proportions.

The composers apply these methods to the popular music, in order to find out mathematical proportions in it.