Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of any pattern, using a mathematical concept known as the Golomb ruler. At TEDxMIA, he shares the math behind musical beauty (and its opposite). (Recorded at TEDxMIA, September 2011, in Miami Beach, Florida. Duration: 9:46) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RENk9PK06AQ] Watch Scott Rickard’s talk on TED.com, […]