Fractal patterns are profoundly human – at least in music. This is one of the findings of a team headed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen and ...

Venezuelan guitarist Aureo Puerta Carreño uses geometry to compose music. Handout Aureo Puerta Carreño makes geometry his muse. The Venezuelan guitarist, 28, created a method to compose music, using ...

A team of mathematicians at the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind in Canada, has found that music download patterns resemble the patterns found in disease epidemics. In their paper published ...

Are you getting bored of dialling in the same old rhythms? Let’s discover how we can switch things up and get more out of our sequencers. By pushing our sequencers a little further, we can break away ...

Polymeter is the layering of two or more parts (elements of the drum kit in our case – kick, snare, hats, etc), each playing in a different time signature to the others but all running along at the ...

Music apps for the iPhone fall into a few distinct categories. Air, for example, is a freeform tool for creating random sounds, while JR Hexatone Pro is an advanced loop creator. PatternMusic, from ...

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