- Music in it's purest form is actually not beautiful. When the synthesiser was invented it produced pure sine waves but it was too perfect that it was just not musical. They had to introduce some noise into it to make it strange. - This is an interesting analogy to life in general. ---- "When the synthesiser down the hall was first invented, Sulzer told his class, the sounds it produced were too mathematically perfect to be musical. “A pure sine wave is just so damn boring,” he said. “They had to build circuits to dirty it up.” A modicum of noise is essential to any instrument’s sound, it turns out. Reeds rasp, bows grind, voices growl, and strings shimmer with overtones. In West Africa, musicians attach gourds to their xylophones and harps to rattle along as they play. Music, like most beautiful things, is most seductive when impure."