Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S055

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Corinna Mansfield, ISBN 0-321-30456-x, Copyright (C) 2005 by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.


A Mathematica Music Synthesizer

Alan Horwitz


Department of Mathematics
Marshall University
Huntington, WV 25755
USA


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ABSTRACT

We always hear that music is related to math, but seldom about how to use math to create musical sounds. We apply concepts from your first few undergraduate years to simulate guitars and drums, create echoes, predict what happens (via the Chain Rule) when you re-parameterize music and more.

Keyword(s): applications, Mathematica, calculus