Math and Music: A Cosmic Symphony of Love
“The mind of God is cosmic music resonating through hyperspace.”
-Michio Kaku, American theoretical physicist, futurist, and author
[One of the best friends I’ve ever had gave me the brilliant idea of sharing these musings with you.]
I have to start with this question: did you know that there’s math in music?
Just take a moment and breathe. It’s gonna be okay.
Do you remember learning about sine, cosine, and tangent functions in trigonometry? I know most of y’all dreaded it but I’m a music and math nerd so please bear with me. You probably didn’t learn this in school, but those functions gave us an introduction to how music and the universe are structured, the sine function in particular.
Sine waves can look like any of these examples
Sine waves are the first waves we learn about in trig, and these waves are present in every song because every note in its basic form looks like one of these sine waves. When a note is higher in pitch like a soprano, the wave cycles (the period of space that has both one high part and one low part of the wave) are much more…
