TEDxMIA - Scott Rickard - The World's Ugliest Music

SCOTT RICKARD
Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University. At University College Dublin, he founded the Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, where biologists, geologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, social scientists and economists work on problems which matter to people. He is passionate about mathematics, music and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.




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[bonesmagoo]

This guy obviously never heard Nickelback. 

[SeriousDrazhar]

Still better than dubstep

[domdom87]

is this song available on itunes?

[Osqueto]

It gave me the creeps!

[tuhinshukla]

I wonder what it would sound like if its tempo were increased

[Commodore1236]

where can I download this ?

[LPhase9]

Lol, it reminds me a lot about the traversion through life - most of it makes no sense, and can even be described as agonizing xD; but once in a while, there is a small window of beauty, and you quickly bask in that dream before the inevitable torture lol.

[yamahabib]

Man he looks like a retarded child just pressing randomly

[Olly999]

I don't think it qualifies as 'ugly'. Perhaps the world's most technically plain piece of music, since from a rational perspective it lacks form and structure that makes beauty. But the absence of beauty is plainness, and the OPPOSITE is ugly. In which case, for something to be ugly it must actively be UNpleasant to our senses, such as the sound of someone screeching their nails across a blackboard, or the hiss of a venomous snake.

[gomesmat]

7:46 song starts here :) your welcome..

[gomesmat]

Baixaki?

[blackknight22w]

wouldnt the pattern be this repeated over and over againnn