video: An explainer-style video describing the main idea of the work: how the structure of music emerges via phase transitions from disordered sound, with examples of the results and how these ideas might be used. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 17th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Berezovsky at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and colleagues was titled, "The structure of musical harmony as an ordered phase of sound: A statistical mechanics approach to music theory." view more
Credit: Jesse Berezovsky, Case Western Reserve University