The Mysteries of Sound and Number

About this book

A musical note can be counted and measured. Sheikh Habeeb Ahmad asks whether its numbers also contain meanings that extend beyond sound, linking audible vibration to a spiritual pattern.

The Mysteries of Sound and Number develops associations between music, mathematics and inward experience. The suggested correspondences belong to a symbolic system, with no demonstrated power to determine a person's fate. The book is most engaging in the movement between what can be heard and what can be imagined: sound disappears almost at once, while a numerical relationship can be written down and carried into another argument.