Music By Numbers
This is my final piece for my ‘Maths And Art’ project. The reason I coined this piece ‘Music By Numbers’ was down to the fact that the music itself had absolutely no traditional foundation. The glass harp was tuned by the golden ratio, so none of the wine glasses even identified to a traditional note.
The composition of the piece is quite compelling, it starts of quite slowly using a very simple pattern and carries on with these very basic patterns right through until the 40 second mark. From this point on we move into the second section of the piece, which has been divided by the golden ratio. For the second section the notes were arranged using the Fibonacci Number pattern. This was also used for the timing for part of the arrangement.
I am unsure why, but during in the middle of the piece where the tempo is picked up it almost sounds like a techno beat or a high speed guitar riff.
Although recorded outside, I rerecorded the wine glasses inside for a crisper sound. I am annoyed I didn’t anticipate needing a Zoom audio device, as it would of been good to get the best quality sound.
Overall I am mostly happy with this final piece, it elaborated on a point I made in my essay about the relationship between Maths and Music and how the two are dependent on each other. Although after the creation of this piece I am not entirely sure, as the piece had not traditional musical construct but yet at times sounded melodic.
One unexpected result was that of the clicking between the note changes, although ultimately unintentional, it created a quite nice sense of beat and structure for the song. As for the golden ratio to divide the two sections, I’m not sure if it was all that successful from a creative stand point, but it still worked seamlessly into the piece.
