A couple of years ago Scott Rickard interpreted an exponential Welch-Costas array of order 88 together with a Golomb ruler for its timeline as a piece of piano music in which no two directed pitch intervals between equidistant notes are the same. He presented his piece in a TEDx talk, calling it the ugliest music in the world, because, supposedly, it was free of discernible patterns and repetitions. But how pattern free and void of structure is Scotts Perfect Ping really? Thats the subject of this long & mathy write-up, on permutations, gracefulness, classiness, Pohlman Mallalieus famous all interval 12 tone row and a bunch of cowbells dropping down the stairs ...
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:15:09 +0000