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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 beautiful in nature are made up of fractals. And all of them seem chaotic, but are very simply put, just patterns: clouds, coastlines, trees, etc.

With this in mind, we move to syncopation, simply put, emphasis, in a rhythm, on a beat where it does not commonly occur. This music as we find, sounds off, chaotic; but we're attracted to it!

... This is so fascinating to me! I love music because it's a combination of psychology, math and physics. Haha anyways, I don't know what any of this means or why it's significant. Heck! If it even is significant. But hey, I like to think it is ;)