Music Reduced to Beautiful Math

"You can use these geometrical spaces to provide ways of visualizing musical pieces," Tymoczko told LiveScience. "These spaces give us a much better and comprehensive picture of the space of all possible chords."

Cool baby.

But can we compose music from the shapes alone, without ever having to look at a musical note?

When that happens, every person with an artistic vision can be a designer of music! And that would be really cool.