Steve Albini

Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

American Musician

Eddie Van Halen

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

Dutch Musician

Ry Cooder

A microphone has a certain range. It's not as good as your ears, but it will capture an enclosed space, the harmonic content in a room. Nice old tube mikes do that pretty well. And that's a good sound.

John Coltrane

I've been devoting quite a bit of my time to harmonic studies on my own, in libraries and places like that. I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.

Stanley Clarke

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Dimebag Darrell

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

Paul Simon

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

Lara St. John

Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

Canadian Musician

Paul Gilbert

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

Lawrence Welk

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Often associated with music and pleasantness in various cultural contexts.

Music Association

Can invoke a sense of peace or satisfaction when used to describe sounds.

Emotional Response

Used in scientific contexts, familiarity with base terms like 'frequency' helps.

Technical Usage

Not commonly used outside technical fields, may confuse general audiences.

Specialized Vocabulary

In math, relates to complex numbers and functions, often used in advanced studies.

Mathematical Context

More of an abstract concept than something you can see or touch.

Abstract Concept

Implies a sense of well-organized, pleasant arrangements in various forms of art.

Aesthetic Quality

Reflects ideas of symmetry and balance, which are valued in many cultures.

Balance and Proportion

 Or maybe if I want to be more 21st century, I could say that they're different harmonic resonances of a superstring. But we'll leave that alone. They spring from the same source. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us.

Mae Jemison on teaching...

 and I'll let you know when they start. Listen to the texture and rhythm of the sounds around you right now. Listen for the loud and soft, the harmonic, the dissonant, and all the small details that make every sound unique. Spend this time as mindful and focused in this real-life sonic moment.

What silence can teach...

 a vibrating string. The idea is that all the particles we know today are just different harmonics on the string. Unfortunately, string theories today are, as yet, untestable. But, with so much of the universe waiting to be explored, the stakes are high. Does all of this make you feel small?

Dark matter: The matter...

 a science fiction problem or a real-life, real mechanical problem? Bona fide mechanical problem. Real or not, is that right? Do we go bing or meh? Yes. So is it a real thing in real life if you have a cracked harmonic balancer?

Science Fiction or Real...

 while he was studying decades of precise astronomical data in an effort to find support for his theory. While his three laws are still in use today, gravity replaced his theory of harmonics to explain the planets' motions.

What’s the difference...

 And lest you think that the physics of music is only useful for entertainment, consider this. Some physicists think that everything in the universe is created by the harmonic series of very tiny, very tense strings.

The physics of playing...

 but it gives tempo and heartbeat. And then things in your life add on to it, giving texture -- that's your friends and your family, and anything that creates a harmonic structure in your life

How I found myself...

 best job in the world. That's because of the communication theory, information theory, game theory, compressed sensing, machine learning, graph analysis, harmonic analysis.

What's so sexy about...

 in order to seek the harmonic interdependence of voices and instruments. That's how they build a spirit of solidarity and fraternity among them, develop their self-esteem

José Antonio Abreu: The...

 who we were who we are and who we can be suspended between the world above and the world below stillness in harmonic motion these are the paddles promises