Music, Emergence, and Society - Exploring Complexity in Sound and Social Systems

Explore the fascinating intersection of music, complexity science, and social dynamics in this thought-provoking podcast episode from the Santa Fe Institute's COMPLEXITY series. Delve into a wide-ranging conversation with External Professors Miguel Fuentes and Marco Buongiorno Nardelli as they discuss their groundbreaking work on the complexity of music, the nature of emergence, and the potential parallels between musical structures and social transformations. Discover how new statistical and computational techniques are revealing hidden patterns in seemingly disparate phenomena, from symphonies to societal changes. Learn about innovative approaches to understanding musical complexity, including network topology and machine listening models. Gain insights into how interdisciplinary collaboration between physicists, composers, social scientists, data artists, and biologists is yielding new perspectives on fundamental questions about order, structure, and emergence in complex systems. Engage with cutting-edge ideas at the forefront of complexity science and explore their potential applications in understanding and shaping our world.

Miguel Fuentes & Marco Buongiorno Nardelli on Music, Emergence, and Society