Faith in Numbers (8 September 2013)  21131

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  • 00:00 John McCarthy’s time in captivity. High anxiety when being moved, e.g. in a sack, between locations. Tried songs, remembering poetry. Doing maths. Somewhere safe “a little world that was mine”. Despite being self-confessed innumerate.
  • 02:30 Thomas Stanley, C17 writer and historian reflecting back to Pythagoras.
  • 05:30 Faith and number connected from inception of Hinduism. Numbers: A discovery and not an invention. Rig Vedas – understanding how something arrives from nothingness, from zero.

Boards of Canada

Music is Maths (00:00) – left fans a trail of numbers in the run-up to their latest album.

Performer: Boards of Canada

  • Geogaddi.

 

  • Michael Levy

    Hymn to Zeus (Original Composition For Replica Kithara in the Ancient Greek Dorian Mode) (04:00) – Pythagoreans findi

    Performer: Michael Levy

    • Ancient Landscapes.

 

 

  • Talvin Singh

    One

    Performer: Talvin Singh

    • Ha!.
    • Universal Records Ltd.

 

 

  • Dave Brubeck

    Take Five

    Performer: Dave Brubeck

    • Dave Brubeck’s Greatest Hits.
    • Columbia/Legacy.

 

 

  • The Jellydots

    3 is a Magic Number

    Performer: Leonard Cohen

    • Hey You Kids!.
    • Big Kids Productions.

 

 

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor, BWV 232: Dona nobis pacem

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker, Helmut Froschauer, Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Singverein

    • Bach: Mass in B Minor.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.[/rtoc]

 

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