ABSTRACT
The important difference between music and mathematics. This difference arises from the musical creation is for performance and must somehow take into account the other because the creative input is intended to be communicated to the listener. Math rock, a form of punk-related music which arrived in the 1990s, is normally presumed to be mathematical precisely because one often has to count the beats in order to make sense of the music. Revolution Summer was not the first attempt to broaden punk's musical palette; there had and have always been bands and individuals pushing at the stylistic boundaries of this area of music. By the late 1990s the kind of noodly and polyrhythmic performance heard on Boche's Dick was no longer surprising. Harmonically, Boche's Dick' is nothing too exceptional, nor do its lyrics seem to add up to much. The rhythm section thus leaves the guitarist free to display his impressive bag of harmonic tricks.
