Dissonance is the truth about harmony
September 17, 2025 11:20 AM Subscribe
MinutePhysics takes a fun dive into The Physics of Dissonance (YT, 28m) and how interacting musical overtones create patterns of consonance and dissonance. They then go on to show how these lead to western and non-western scales, and eventually chords. This is based on an interactive page by Aatish Bhatia where you can explore some of these concepts and hear how different chord triads sound on a 3-d consonance/dissonance mapping.
There's also a t-shirt.
Found via Aeon.
Adorno quote in the title found on this dissonance quotes page.
posted by indexy (3 comments total)
28 users marked this as a favorite
posted by indexy at 11:23 AM on September 17