One thing i can say is that explaining music to non musicians can prove to be troublesome because you have to use analogies which sometimes becomes misleading to the non musicians.

Fascinating interview! I just bought the book after watching this episode. Downloading Giant Steps next! One of our great Astronaut Heroes, Dr. Ron McNair, who tragically died in the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, was also a PhD Physicist and Saxophonist. He was credited with being the first person to play a Saxophone in space. He was also a 4th Degree Black Belt Martial Artist, who co-authored an article in Scientific American on the Physics of Karate. This work of Dr. Stephon Alexander resonates with an equal symmetry or should I say invariance!

Only 7.5k views... People need to get their priorities straight

Most excellent. A proper Sunday inspiration. Thank you.

What an amazing conversation. Both are very intelligent people, and the subject presented is fascinating.

Huge John Coltrane fan this went right under my nose. Better late than never.

What do John Coltrane and Frank Zappa have in common? Answer: Nicolas Slonimsky... Get his book "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns", To John and Frank, this was like their bible.

What a great interview, not only as a life long Coltrane fan, but so much more, e.g., turning lemons into lemonade... love it.

I am so glad to hear a man such as this or any of us following up on Elder Coltrane and Elder Yusuf Lateefs research and study ☝🏽💖

great show, thanks

Very informative. I bought the book. Have to get to reading it. I also play the saxophone so this resonates with me on many levels.

This reminds me of a similar book called "The Physics of Music and Musical Instruments" by a gentlemen called David R. Lapp from Tufts University. Going out to get this book now. My hobby is sound design, and lately I'm playing with AI to create rhythm and harmonies in addition to soundscapes. Thanks!

This is extremely fantastic and very under viewed! The algorithm can work great!

Live and learn, there is no end in Physics, and in Musica!!! Life!! gives us all! Greetings from Guatemala city!!

love your work!!

Thank you Professor...I have been in far too many classes where the instructor does not want any questions from the student especially feedback.

"That is a moment to teach"... That's excellence!

The phrase 'close enough for jazz' was originally used by jazz musicians as 'close enough for rock and roll', specifically when asked asked 'are you in tune?'

This was an incredible watch. Respect to both speakers here. Also 24:19 was kind of hilarious!

Very interesting interview. Certainly makes you think...

The book by Douglas Hofstadter, Esher Gödel, Bach will go even deeper and connect art and music to mathematics. I read that book over 25 years ago, and at the age of 72, I almost understand it.

I'd love to meet this musician/physicist in person -- he's actually exploring the relationship between music and science.

Sir Stephon🙏🙏🙏you are my guru, thank you for saving my faith

great interviewer!

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. ” ― Pythagoras

A. Scriabin was also irresistibly drawn to these subtle but fundamental truths.

Thinking about music in terms of geometry is great for unlocking creative ways of exploring patterns within a system based on a mere 12 numbers. It still doesn't explain why certain of those 12 tones have greater or lesser stable or unstable functions within a harmonic context. That's the real mystery of music, and I suspect it has more to do with the human nervous system than the principles underlying the whole universe.

In Coltrane we Trust!!

Every simple thing is also complex and every complex thing is also simple, depending on one's point of view and intention. We do incredibly complex things with simple knowledge and complex knowledge helps us to understand seemingly simple things.

I like the question she ask

Why she be looking like ;V wheneer he speaking.

2:34 if this was any other video this is the moment when it would change

A "triad" is not a "scale" - it is simply a three note chord that is part of a scale (usually a 5-8 collection of notes - i.e. major scale = 7 notes). He didn't explain that Giant Steps is based on KEY areas that are major thirds away, hence making up the augmented triad - the key areas of B major, G major and Eb major. The augmented triad is not actually heard in the head (basic melody) of Giant Steps. The major seventh chord - a four note chord - is actually heard in the first four notes of the head.

excellent question 8:28 on behalf of the show host interviewer

Pat Martino Sacred Geometry….would love to chat about that…

He was Phrasing "Fascinating Baby"...tho Cloaking it with a Nappy Change ...lol

Stephen Alexender is next to Newland

I had my hand on my forehead for most of this. But it's nice that it exists: it's nice that she's trying... Although I wish my search for 'Coltrane is a genius' had a better result

I dare say that this is why Coltrane became such a student of spirituality. Just as he knew there was an intelligence behind what came out of his horn...he saw there was a greater intelligence behind the existing things that man didn't and couldn't create. Without a mind there is no searching. A mind can be true or false (in a moral sense). I believe the fullest explorations by any true mind, on any trail of knowledge, lead to God.

This is beautiful. God truly created music 🥰. Music, algorithms, sound waves, music frequencies, rhythm, emotion 😍.

No wonder I had trouble with Giant Steps. I never took physics.

in Daoism and nonwestern cultures - the hands are NOT symmetric. The left hand is yin and right hand is yang. So even though light is invariant or symmetric since it has zero rest mass light still has gravitational mass due to momentum as noncommutative time-frequency. So this is the deeper secret that Dr. Stephon Alexander knows as the infinite spiral of Perfect Fifths. Just see Fields Medal math professor Alain Connes lecture on "music of shapes."

More of this please, KZfaq.

Jazz is patterns PLUS Intuition

Here at the behest of my TikTok followers after talking about Coletrane changes! I have been pleasantly informed, and happy to see I wasn’t wrong in my philosophy of sound & light

Who's the interviewer 🥰

anil mangal?

Why is it that no one will recogn art and science as the same body/thing/shit???

Musicians are seen as cooler than scientists because musicians are inherently trying to create something attractive, true or not, scientists are trying to discover truth, attractive or not. They should work together, dare I say...in concert To organize things WE HUMANS create symmetries, music is a spectrum, there is a full continuation between A, A#/Bb and B, we humans created balanced place markers, and hence symmetry, blue and green have no clear line of demarcation. WE HUMANS create the symmetry by our brains pattern recognition system. You can always find symmetry in a circle since 2 lead to 4 which leads to 12, the 3 crosses of cavalry of the zodiac.

Deh one deh look like seh it a guh get ready fi mount up afta it listen to part ah di music. The tongue is being sucked in and there's a Cheshire (Alice in Wonderland) cat smile. The sociopath is mounting up but only slightly.

Pat said life is jazz…

Bach is the Tesla of music- Eric Dollard

TLDR : Coltrane is highly accomplished. Gobbledygook. Flirting. You're welcome.

well gee, its too bad humanity and the following generations seem to fall further away from caring a lick about intelligently depth music. Unless someone finds a clever plan to make it appealing to the masses once again, especially the youngsters. What kind of people will be changing our diapers in the future? will WE even make it that far knowing that the Cookie Cut Caveman music and mentality closes in on those that care. This fascination about music may no longer exist. Jazz in general, may no longer exist. The powers that be do not want our children to think at this level! Has anyone noticed? But umm hey, SGtM this is a great interview!👍 THANKS

this chick is so cute. I like how she says "is it really?!?"

i think some of these african people have already discovered but he was the fIrst to bring it out and explain it to the world

God spoke the world into existence.... Sound waves ( all glory to the most high) y'all read the Bible!!

This guy is way late. Johannes Kepler discovered physical harmonies in planetary motion and wrote about it in Harmonices Mundi (Music of the Spheres) in 1619.

Lol

I feel a little bit bad saying this, because this guy seems like a great guy, and ernest in his quest, but I know high school math and a bit about Coltrane, having learned Giant Steps note for note off of the vinyl album which I practically wore out as a teen. The relationship between Einstein and 'Trane is apples and oranges. The analogy is pseudo science. Sorry. The hippest way it was taught to me was that the tune straddles B Eb and G. 3 key centres dividing the octave into 3. The so called augmented scale B D D# F# G A# relates. But Coltrane's solo doesn't use the augmented scale, but rather uses II V I 's in the main keys. I think it misses the point to compare an apple and an orange. It's beautiful, just as it is. It doesn't need any half baked mathematical analogy. Just go listen to it.

Hype - BS it's all like the Miles thing 👎 Sure he was a great player but there were many many more.

So John Coltrane is like Einstein only because he played an augmented triad, and made a drawing of such a triad in a circle? Disappointing!

Trying to keep the flirtation controlled this female.

None of the secrets related to John coltrane's rediscovery were mentioned, highlighted, or explained in the slightest. This was an absolute waste of time.

I couldn't even watch the whole thing. There's no way this woman is not a reptilian.

maybe stick to cosmology bro

This channel should be retitled pseudoscience goes to the movies.