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Can you hear the golden ratio?

Posted by richardelwes on March 18, 2008
Posted in: Crankishness, Maths, Music.

It’s a celebrated fact that the golden ratio produces beautiful shapes. But do its aesthetic qualities extend to music? Michael S. Schneider thinks he’s found it in one of the centrepieces of drum and bass.

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