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Bernard Chazelle — Discovering the Cosmology of Bach

Bernard Chazelle — Discovering the Cosmology of Bach

Computer scientist Bernard Chazelle has an origin…

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November 13, 20141h 6m

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Computer scientist Bernard Chazelle has an original take on what music works in us — especially the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Just as mathematicians talk about discovering rather than inventing great equations, so, he says, Bach set out to “discover” the musical rules behind the universe. After hearing this conversation, you may never listen to any piece of music — whether Bach or Jay-Z — in quite the same way again. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/bernard-chazelle-discovering-the-cosmology-of-bach/7026