Ghost in the Machine Sep 8, 2025

Music contains in its essence a glitch, a conceptual puzzlement, a great riddle. The arrangement of notes on a piano is considered a crime against God, nature, and science by some and musical perfection by others. But who determines what a good sound is, what perfection is? Who has the correct answer to this musical puzzle? This is a history of science and music tale of music’s dirty little secret.​