SMS scnews item created by Gareth White at Thu 17 Apr 2008 1727
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 18 Apr 2008
Calendar1: 18 Apr 2008 1300-1400
CalLoc1: Carslaw 451
Auth: garethw@asti.maths.usyd.edu.au

# SUMS Meeting: Reid -- Sounds, Music, and Mathematics

We’re back to regular talks guys, and this time we have a quite experienced
speaker, Chris Reid. Chris has given SUMS talks since 2003, mostly on the
Riemann Hypothesis. This time however, he is venturing into new ground with
MUSIC! Here is his abstract:

Everyone likes music, right? But how does music actually manage to affect us
in the many ways that it does? Well, that’s a ridiculously difficult question
to answer if you ask me. So, instead I’ll present some of the simple
principals of sound and music with the vague target of generating some "cool"
electronically generated sounds. Specifically, I’ll be mentioning things
related to waves, pitch, harmonics, rhythm, tone/tone colour, human speech,
vibrato, resonance, etc. Hopefully, most of the concepts will be accompanied
by examples in the form of actual Mathematica-generated sounds using explicit
formulas!

This will likely be the best talk of the (relatively short) year so far, so
be sure to come along!

Talk: Sounds, Music, and Mathematics
Speaker: Chris Reid
Where: Carslaw 451
When: Friday April 18, 1-2pm


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