Roger Shepard invented a method for creating a musical scale which can seem to increase in pitch forever. Jean-Claude Risset extended this and applied it to rhythm as well as pitch, realising that a sound could be created whose tempo appeared to speed up (or slow down) indefinitely.

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In a discovery that challenges conventional wisdom on the brain mechanisms of learning, UCLA neuro-physicists have found there is an optimal brain “rhythm,” or frequency, for changing synaptic strength, and each synapse is tuned to a different optimal frequency for learning.

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Computational geometry unlocks a musical phylogeny

“Evolutionary musicology” — the search for music’s origins — has traditionally been the province of anthropologists, but why not employ the techniques of information theory and machine theory to music? “Radcliffe is about crossing boundaries and taking risks, so I think it’s appropriate,” said Godfried Toussaint, Radcliffe’s Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellow.