For me it’s time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don’t understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That’s it. I don’t understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn’t give you anything.
My wife will hear a song and go “Oh neat, it’s in 5/8.” And I’m like “How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?”
Check out ‘Angine de Poitrine’s Math Rhythms Explained’. They use a loop pedal in the context of math-rock with changing time signatures, so they must fit all changes in a track into a fixed length. For those good at time signatures (not me), they also have some misdirections between the loops of different instruments.
I just discovered these guys last week and have had their two albums playing on repeat ever since.
that’s fascinating and DIDN’T HELP AT ALL HOLY SHIT.
it’s like saying “oh you don’t understand basic physics? here watch Einstein explain his most complex concepts”
Oh that reminds me of the time my then boyfriend, a mathematician, tried to teach me maths. It was like teaching someone French by reading out a few pages of Sartre’s La nausée, then saying “OK, that’s the basics covered…”
It’s just an example of guys who definitely must count stuff so that it always fits exactly into the loop while also being precisely timed between the guitar tracks and the drums
As for physics, iirc the book series by Feynman is recommended to really dig all the stuff from the basics to the fancy theories, and Feynman was no slouch himself.
Also, Einstein was teaching students in the US later in life.
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Fantastic music
The band took off in January with the KEXP performance, after playing shows for two years. Their outlandish garbs and wacky setup likely contributed to the popularity — wouldn’t expect to see much interest in microtonal math-rock otherwise.
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