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Music is Math

I am certainly not the first to espouse this idea but I am a really big fan nonetheless. Music is really just a bunch of numbers - a sequence - with meta data attached to those numbers. Not unlike HTML. Many people have written about this for years, but Stephen Wolfram has taken it one step further: WolframTones . His 2002 book A New Kind of Science broke new ground in scientific thinking and this site does the same for...ringtones. Yes, ringtones. Not everyone agrees with Wolfram - he does have a tendency to "toot his own horn." WolframTones is a site that allows users to create their own - potentially unique - ringtones based on instrumentation, tempo, scales and other parameters. These parameters are then mapped to an equation or numerical value which generates the sequence of data - and the ringtone. You can hear the one I created here . PLEASE NOTE: you will need to have a polyphonic-capable phone that can receive email and has web access. Any camera phone these days sh...