Music, Complexity, Information
Damian H. Zanette

TL;DR
This paper discusses the relationship between music, complexity, and information, exploring how numerical and scientific concepts can illuminate musical structures and processes.
Contribution
It provides a conceptual framework linking music and complexity theory, offering insights into the informational aspects of musical compositions.
Findings
Music can be analyzed using complexity measures
Information theory offers new perspectives on musical structure
Preliminary notes for a broader essay on music and science
Abstract
These are the preparatory notes for a Science & Music essay, "Playing by numbers", appeared in Nature 453 (2008) 988-989.
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Taxonomy
TopicsFractal and DNA sequence analysis · Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
