David Darling

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Something You Should Know · How to Harness Your Intuition & The Surprising Science Hidden in Music · 15 Sep 2025 podcast

So they that they did have a a a big effect on music.

And that's what led to equal temperament.

And that's kind of what drove the changes to to the modern system of music.

But there's there's no instruments which really kind of broke the rules.

They all follow science.

They all have to play together ultimately.

Of course, eventually we ended up with the electronic instruments, which can play any sound you want because they're created artificially.

Uh, and that changed how music sounds in the modern age.

But they all have to follow the rules of physics, ultimately, and they all have to sound good when played together.

It's just that the physics behind them is quite different, and music has evolved to accommodate uh greater complexity as time has gone on.

Well, mm, it's it can it can be it can be so close that it's sometimes very hard to tell.

You y you you're probably right.

It depends on how sharp your ear is.

I work with a with a musician, a musical director that he's got a fantastic ear, he can pick things out that I just go over my head, you know.

But but certainly um a a synthetic violin that you could, for example, produce on a a home studio

It it's it's so close that you know, you wouldn't want to bring in a full orchestra to uh to replace what

s it sounds good enough.

I mean it it it's it's so good that if you looked at the waveforms, you'd be hard pressed to see much of a di and it's getting closer and closer all the time.

So I think th the the strides certainly, you know, in the last decade or so have been so great that

You know, it it it's it's as it's as it's as good as you can you know, that's as good as you need it really in most cases.

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