tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781383461061929571.post4868406231912216802..comments2024-03-14T09:08:19.035-04:00Comments on OR in an OB World: There Was a World (and Music!) Before Punk RockPaul A. Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05801891157261357482noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781383461061929571.post-33959363956172823322013-09-04T10:54:47.169-04:002013-09-04T10:54:47.169-04:00TesseracT may well have the highest-dimensional na...TesseracT may well have the highest-dimensional name. Before the current trend to geometric names, there was Ice Cube (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cube) ... but note the update I made to the post for some earlier geometric groups.Paul A. Rubinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05801891157261357482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8781383461061929571.post-4702769128529403562013-09-04T07:54:40.495-04:002013-09-04T07:54:40.495-04:00There is also a new tendency in some progressive r...There is also a new tendency in some progressive rock / metal bands to get names inspired by geometry. I didn't compile a list, but the most patent example is probably the band TesseracT, named after the 4-dimension regular hypercube. For a sample of their music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxRV4X1vLU<br /><br />It's rather ironic that a band named after a regular polytope would use so many nonstandard musical structures such as polyrhythm in their music.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10727224627014564951noreply@blogger.com