I'm watching a documentary on the psychology of music and one of the scientists mentions, how it seems many people are attracted to Latin music, due to it's unpredictably through syncopation. But the thing about syncopation is that it is really, extremely predictable. It's just not obvious. much like fractals. A fractal is essentially, a mathematical equation that creates a pattern, infinitely the same no matter how far you zoom in or out. Think of a coastline. If you look at a picture of the entire west coast it has a pattern of a very rough, jagged line. Zoom in to a single beach, the same rough, jagged line. 3 feet of that beach; the same jagged rough line. And we see, it will always look the same. Another similar picture of a fractal is a tree. As two branches split, each has its own branches that split off and into two and those branches have twigs that split off and into two, and so on and so forth. In fact, many things we instinctively find to be b
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Oh NPR... I'm truly addicted to your music section. I should stop copying all your posts on my blog and simply just make my blog, a link to NPR music. At this point it practically is. (Here people. http://www.npr.org/ ) Today you shared with me the goodness that is Jamie Lidell: And ?uestlove. Along with new music from Steve Martin. I love you NPR. On that note, let's discuss my love for Questo, the great drumbino. I can not say I found him on my own, a good friend and phenomenal musician shared his music with me and out of and attempt to keep up and be cool I gave it a listen. And they say the rest is history! Questlove is one of my favorite musicians, n ot only because he's extremely talented, but he's one of those rare people in the music business who has worked extremely hard and stayed extremely humble. And I like that. More from NPR: Patenting genes? I find it so selfish to hinder scientific progress, simpl