Making Beautiful Music Metadata Together

Making Beautiful Graphs with Zplot

This paper introduces Zplot, a Tcl library for making twodimensional data plots. Zplot provides a simple set of primitives that allow users to input and manipulate data, plot said data in a variety of formats, and decorate the resulting graphs with axes, labels, and other textual accents. Zplot then outputs encapsulated PostScript for ease of inclusion in technical documents.

On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful music

In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty that can be found in a simple piece of music and can be appreciated universally. The proposed model suggest that there is a link between beautiful music and the Dyson distribution which seems to be the result of a deeper optimisation process between randomness and regularity. Then we show that beautiful music need to satisfy a more fundam...

Consuming Music Together

From White Noise to Für Elise: What makes music beautiful?

Can an entire symphony be predicted by just one note from just a single instrument in the orchestra? It seems absurd to even ask this question. The power of an orchestral piece is in how the flutes harmonize with the viola, and how the hardness of percussion counters the softness of the winds. The manner in which all of the notes from all of the instruments come together to produce a collective...

MusiXTEX, even more beautiful than MusicTEXfor music typesetting

MusiXTEX is a new music typesetting package derived from MusicTEX, but it provides more beautiful scores than MusicTEX did. While MusicTEX was a single pass package, MusiXTEX is a three pass system: the rst pass performs a rough TEXing which reports the spacings of each music section, the second pass is a computation of the best note spacings, and the third one is the nal TEXing process. The be...