The workshop ‘Music and Mathematics’ closed the cycle dedicated to Art at the New Acropolis Cultural Association in Almería. The workshop was led by Sebastián Pérez, director of the Tristán Arts Institute, and Silvina Rodríguez.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The key word is Resonance, expression of a physical, cosmic, perhaps human law. A historical example is Pythagoras’ studies using a monochord. Pythagoras studied musical intervals and discovered their mathematical relationships. Thus, half a string tuned to a certain note gave the same note, but an octave higher.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sound is a vibration, energy, a wave propagating in a medium, with a certain frequency and amplitude. These are numbers. Can sound be seen? That was also the aim of this Music and Mathematics workshop. There are various media, such as the Rubens tube, the Chladni figure, the Lissajous figure or the harmonograph. The photographs show a handmade harmonograph, made by Jesús Avilés. And also the results on paper of some tests carried out by some participants in the workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numbers are beings, an essence. So it is according to the law of resonance. So is the relationship between Music and Mathematics. As Sebastián Pérez commented in closing, all the attendees were now in resonance with the same ideas.