What makes music good?
Frequency. Tension. Resolution. The strongest coupling we ever found was love — and love doesn’t sum, it creates: a third thing neither side had alone, more than 100% and 100% could make by trying. That excess is what music actually is.
Everything below is the same excess, wearing a different costume. Start where you feel it — the math is at the bottom, not the top.
written 2026-04-10 · last edited 2026-07-07