photo: Adam Cantor
Math rock is a musical sub genre flying below the radar of the mainstream. The Apples in stereo dive in at the deep end with the Non-Pythagorean Musical Scale, invented by main man Robert Schneider:
A new musical scale is created by letting successive pitches have the ratios to one another of the natural logarithms of successive whole numbers. Most of these pitches bear no correspondence to the twelve tones generated by the circle of fifths, attributed to Pythagoras, or to the twelve tones of equal temperament tuning.
Successive notes in this scale grow closer and closer together, and the number of discrete tones in each octave increases nearly exponentially, with each successive octave.
Rest assured, Rob Schneider other main concern is trying to write the perfect pop song. He wants to be Brian Wilson. The new album Travellers in Space and Time is a continuation of his quest. It will be released April 16th, at the start of a USA tour:
Live dates:- 04/16 Cosmic Charlies, Lexington, KY
- 04/17 123 Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV
- 04/18 Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC
- 04/20 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
- 04/21 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
- 04/23 Middle East Underground, Cambridge, MA
- 04/24 Castaways, Ithaca, NY
- 04/25 Bug Jar, Rochester, NY
- 04/27 Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH
- 04/28 The Pike Room, Pontiac, MD
- 04/30 Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
- 05/01 Turf Club, St. Paul, MN
- 05/03 Turner Hall, Milwaukee, WI
- 05/04 Billiken Club, St. Louis, MO
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