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 ...

At its most fundamental level, a rhythmic pattern is the scaffolding upon which a musical composition rests. It manifests as a deliberate series of beats, accents, rests, and relative durations that ...

Since the time of Pythagoras around 500 BCE, music and mathematics have had an intimate and mutually supportive relationship. Mathematics has been used to tune musical scales, to design musical ...

One of the most common human responses to music is to move to it. Our bodies respond to music in conscious and unconscious ways. The urge to move to music is universal among humans. Listeners react to ...

“Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.” —Edward Hirsh Rhythm. It is ...