Music from Vibrating Wallpaper

Year: 2018 Authors: Frank A. Farris

Core claim

Each wallpaper type has its own characteristic family of pitches relative to a fundamental, yielding new scales from plane-wave vibrations.

Topics

wallpaper symmetries, musical scales, standing waves, pitch perception, composition

Domains

Fourier-like standing waves, lattice symmetry, frequency ratios, eigenmodes, music composition, visualization, pattern design, sound art

Methods

wave-function modeling, spectral analysis, scale construction, animated films

Media

wallpaper movies, synthesized sound, tone generators, open-source software

Source status

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