Seeing music through the eyes of math | Jürgen Richter-Gebert | TEDxKonstanz

Описание: Mathematics and music aren’t as different as one might think. In particular, the mathematical concepts of symmetry and evenness come up often in music. By visualizing these in commonly used musical scales and rhythms, we take a journey to explore the structure and patterns behind different styles of musical composition and even create new musical pieces.

Jürgen Richter-Gebert is a Professor for Geometry and Visualisation at Technical University of Munich. He is an expert in web-based real-time interactive visualization, and the author of several state of the art software projects; among these are the Interactive Geometry Software ‘Cinderella', and the pattern drawing app ‘iOrnament', which has been showcased in context of several worldwide Apple events. Richter-Gebert lays a big emphasis on science communication and has co-designed and contributed to exhibitions at the German Museum in Munich and MoMath in New York, as well as several theme-based exhibitions such as the Music and Math Exhibition LaLaLab. The talk is based on his new App ‘Musica!’ He is also running his own math museum ix-quadrat at the campus of TU Munich. With an emphasis on using interactive visualizations to form accessible and intuitive explanations of theoretical concepts, his works and teaching practices have been recognized with the European Academic Software award, the Ars Legendi National Teaching award, as well as the User’s Choice of Educational Apps in the Tabby App awards.


Intro animation created by Mike Costelloe. Music intro from Phase 3 by Xylo-Ziko, used under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Jürgen Richter-Gebert, *1963 in Darmstadt. Is a full Professor for Geometry and Visualisation at Technical University Munich with former employments at ETH Zurich, TU Berlin, KTH Stockholm and TU Darmstadt. He is an expert in web-based real-time interactive visualization, and the author of several state of the art software projects. Among them the Interactive Geometry Software Cinderella and several Apps. Among them the pattern drawing app iOrnament that has been showcased in context of several worldwide Apple events.
Richter-Gebert lays a big emphasis on science communication and has co-designed and contributed to several math exhibitions. Among them are big institutions like the German Museum in Munich and the MoMath in New York, as well as several theme-based exhibitions like the Music and Math Exhibition LaLaLab. He is also running his own math museum ix-quadrat at the campus of TU Munich.
His works and teaching practices received a broad range of prices among them academic prizes like the European Academic Software award, the Trinational Multimedia Award Media Prix, the National Teaching award Ars Legendi as well more popular prices like as the User’s Choice of Educational Apps in the Tabby App awards. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx