The lectures and the readings for this week focus on elaborating the close relationship between Mathematics and Art. Most people take mathematics and art to be two very different subjects. In fact, there are a lot of intersections between these them. The artists incorporate mathematical concepts into their artistic work. The creative work done by mathematicians can be considered as a special form of art. In this weekly blog post, I will be discussing the interaction between mathematics and art in following two aspects: mathematics and architecture, mathematics and music.
This is a picture of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The architect incorporates the concepts of non-Euclidean geometry into the Deconstrctivist architecture of the building. On its official website, the deeper meaning of the design is described as “resembling silver sails, the curves echo the billows in the auditorium and play off the bowed cornice of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, forging a link between new and old.” The penetration of geometry into architecture is definitely one of the greatest developments of architecture.
Furthermore, the above is a student Matlab project, “automatic piano music player”, which produced music from any input music text file. This shows that applying mathematics in music production is not a work of the best mathematician in the world. College students with good mathematical and computing knowledge will be able to get involved in the production of “mathematical music”!
Work Sited:
"ARCHITECTURE." Architecture. Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, n.d. Web. 12 Oct. 2013. <http://www.laphil.com/wdch10/wdch/architecture.html>.
The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California. 2003. Photograph. PDPhoto, Los Angeles.
Anainanosh."matlab music wav" Online video clip. Youtube, Feb 27, 2012. Web. 12 Oct. 2013.
Rknox13."Automatic Piano Player - Engineering 6 Final Project" Online video clip. Youtube, Dec 4, 2011. Web. 12 Oct. 2013.
I really like that you discussed the mathematics topic in something really understandable. Have you programmed in Matlab before? I take it that you are interested in music as well. In my engineering senior design class, I learned about speech manipulation which is similar in theory of how they created the automatic piano player. We stored a voice sample which was essentially values of the voltage spikes and we applied mathematical transformations to manipulate it. So the invasion of mathematics is really clear for everyone to see since it's used pretty much everywhere. Do you believe math is essential for the arts and sciences?
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