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The notion "Music is numbers in time" came from the Pythagorean school and is actually an old-fashion idea (although there are nowadays some great musicians-composers (neopythagoreans) who believed in this idea, like I.Xenakis). Making and listening music (and especially great music!) is something really complex and has to do more with the human perception (I am challenging you to read and understand this book). Anyway, if you want to experiment making music by "putting numbers in time" you can try the SuperCollider environment and programming language. Or we can make a project for the contest, were a search query could produce an algorithmic composition according to the Urank algorithm. What do you say? |
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Sounds great to me since i'm a musician! You might be interested in taking a look of David Cope's works in http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/ . |
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The observation that Music is numbers in time isn't prescritive (saying "This is the correct way of making music") but rather descriptive (saying "all music, no matter how composed, can be described as sound frequencies (numbers) in time") |
