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> no-one would have previously thought of using a ton of numbers to represent a song Music has long been represented using math and math concepts. Musical not
by thwarted 4y ago
> no-one would have previously thought of using a ton of numbers to represent a song
Music has long been represented using math and math concepts. Musical notation is a cartesian plane with time on the x-axis and pitch on the y. But that's the representation, and it's not about the representation, it's the ability to manipulate at extremely high speed.
- probablynish 4y agoI see what you're saying, but musical notation isn't a precise representation of the audio. Given the same score, two musicians can produce very different interpretations. Perhaps I should have said 'audio' instead of 'song'. (I took classical piano exams as a kid, and at some point a group of us would perform our prepared pieces for each other as practice, and I remember always being surprised at how different everyone's pieces sounded. I'd thought mine was the One True Way!)