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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Lu par : Don Hagen
- Durée : 7 h et 38 min
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More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.
Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics - a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim - The Jazz of Physics revisits the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one. This cosmological journey accompanies Alexander's own tale of struggling to reconcile his passion for music and physics, from taking music lessons as a boy in the Bronx to studying theoretical physics at Imperial College, London's inner sanctum of string theory. Playing the saxophone and improvising with equations, Alexander uncovered the connection between the fundamental waves that make up sound and the fundamental waves that make up everything else. As he reveals, the ancient poetic idea of the "music of the spheres", taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics.
Whether you are more familiar with Brian Greene or Brian Eno, John Coltrane or John Wheeler, the Five Percent Nation or why the universe is less than 5 percent visible, there is a new discovery every minute. Covering the entire history of the universe from its birth to its fate, its structure on the smallest and largest scales, The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.
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- Your Old Pal Sisco
- 16/01/2017
I tried and failed not to be disappointed
Just a couple of points. I love jazz & I love at least trying to understand physics. So my expectations of this book might have been tweaked a bit too high.
My main objection is that there are no musical clips in this book anywhere. You can't just describe what John Coltrane was doing and hope for it to have an impact. We have to have an illustration of it, precisely because it seems to stray from the easily understandable. I tried listening to the Coltrane albums he mentions after I finished the book, and I could no more easily decipher them or relate them to the physics concepts in the book than I could before listening to it.
Just a personal opinion- I am no fan of the "whistling S" sound in a narrator. Some people don't mind it, I do. Take it into account before listening if it's going to bother you.
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- Chris Reich
- 14/01/2017
What?
This book is really a mishmash of physics and music. Other than string length causing pitch change, there is no connection between physics and jazz.
I don't get the 5 star reviews. Coltrane didn't discover the secrets of the universe. No, this one wasn't worth the time. It's really somewhat of a mess.
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- Paula Wills
- 04/09/2016
Loved this book!
While I have limited knowledge of physics, I love jazz. The Jazz of Physics has inspired me to learn more about Physics and pick up my saxophone again. I will have to re listen to this book as I study more about physics and cosmology .
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- Brandi
- 12/08/2020
Phenomenal
The authors journey in becoming a physicist is incredibly inspiring. Music has always been known to invoke incredible physiological mechanisms that can lead to great moments of creativity and discoveries of inner genius. Dr. Alexander gives great insight to these potential mechanisms and how sound waves may be whispering profound truths about the cosmos.
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- Catherine Jones
- 01/01/2019
Brain candy for theoretical types
I don't understand music or physics or the universe, but I wanted to learn the language of music. None of the music theory books made sense to me so I started trying to put the theory into my own visual paradigm. After I did that, I somehow knew (I think the universe told me) I could conceptualize music theory through a familiarziation with physics concepts. This book has inspired me to keep walking this theoretical path...and to add Coltrane to my studies.
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- Greg W.
- 01/10/2018
Limited appeal
Unless you know a lot about music structure, his premise can't really be understood. It would have been very helpful for some of the referenced music to be included in the audio. He drops too many names in an effort to bolster support for his premise. It gets tedious after a while.
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- Matthew David Orren
- 10/05/2023
Interesting explanation of physics.
I enjoyed the explanation of the physics and mathematics describing the complexities and structure of the universe. Perhaps the links to jazz could have been stronger. If a central purpose of the book was to show how jazz theory at a very deep level correlates to complex and perhaps abstract physical concepts, the jazz theory seems to get much less attention as compared to the physics. Still it is an intriguing book well suited for the adept but non-professional musician or cosmologist.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 06/03/2023
Listen to this book
I’m not a formally trained musician, nor am I a physicist. However I frequently find myself reading papers on particle collisions at 4am after running musical experiments all day.
This book gave me the sense that I’m not (fully) insane.
About to purchase a hard copy to send to a friend.
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- Hari
- 29/06/2022
Multidimensional jazz
He reviewed many concepts in physics, talked about music in all its aspects and provided insights into the web of sound that makes the cosmic web.
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- Bruce L. Kutter
- 20/06/2021
Imagination and Inspiration
I have long appreciated some of the math and physics that helps people understand music and music theory. Alexander makes the case that music, especially Jazz, also helps one understand physics. It is, in parts, dense with theory (music and physics) but the dense parts are linked by stories that are accessible to all. It would be awesome if the audio book was interspersed with music. But since it does not include music I found it useful to put down the book occasionally to listen to a few Coltrane tunes.
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