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comment by havires
havires  ·  3762 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: System of a Down - Violent Pornography

Isn't most of their music... Actually math based in some way? I remember hearing that somewhere... It was like trig or highly advanced algebra...





CrazyEyeJoe  ·  3762 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In my opinion, people who say that kind of stuff usually don't know what they're talking about.

As far as I know, the only particularly mathematical thing that Meshuggah do is use odd time signatures and polyrythms. From a mathematical point of view, it's no more advanced than fractions. I HIGHLY doubt that Meshuggah use math for anything else, and I think you'll find that the more one conciously uses advanced math to compose music, the less listenable it is.

You can find complex patterns in a lot of music if you go looking for it, but that doesn't mean that composers sit down an solve equations to make it. There is also a relationship between trigonometry and music, but it's mainly interesting from an analytic point of view, and isn't really something most people think of when making it.

I could go into more detail, but I think I've proably said too much already!