'Concerferences': of Music and Maths, for the Audience's Delight

摘要

This paper describes a good way to put forward to a general public the relationship between maths and music: "concerferences", a French term coined to designate anything between a talk cum music and a concert cum fairly detailed scientific explanations. This format of exposition is quite versatile, and the content can be adapted to a wide range of publics. It has shown considerable pedagogical promise, some possible reasons are explored with examples taken from actual practice.