The world's ugliest music | Scott Rickard | TEDxMIA

SCOTT RICKARD Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton...

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Translator: Kristin Windbigler Reviewer: Jenny ZurawellSo what makes a piece of music beautiful?Well, most musicologists would arguethat repetition is a key aspect of beauty.The idea that we take a melody, a motif, a musical idea,we repeat it, we set up the expectation for repetition,and then we either realize it or we break the repetition.And that's a key component of beauty.So if repetition and patterns are key to beauty,then what would the absence of patterns sound likeif we wrote a piece of musicthat had no repetition whatsoever in it?That's actually an interesting mathematical question.Is it possible to write a piece of music that has no repetition whatsoever?It's not random. Random is easy.Repetition-free, it turns out, is extremely diffi...