The Broken Symmetry of Music (IMAGE)

Case Western Reserve University

The Broken Symmetry of Music

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We can look at a balance--or a competition--between dissonance and entropy of sound--and see that phase transitions can also occur from disordered sound to the ordered structures of music.

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Jesse Berezovsky/Case Western Reserve University

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