The article opens with the claim that "Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common" but then hardly addresses that further.
Did Einstein have any musical talent/interests?
Did Einstein have any musical talent/interests?
Talks about musical talents, but also some other things where you might see similarities if you read it, then stories about Coltrane.
Also feynmann liked percussions a lot and maybe music in general.
What I find in learning music alone, is that it's highly relative, there's no real absolute, so the space of combination is huge, yet very regular in principles; what's not to like for a scientist.
Quoting article above:
Music is an abstract medium — the printed note requires
interpretation and execution. Like the written line of
code, there is often much more than meets the eye.I've been studying theory for a while now, and it's become obvious we know a lot less about music than we think we do.
In a way I agree with you, the more you dig the less you know. But at the same time, I have this feeling that .. I do know music. I know because when I'm on it, the few times it happened, it wasn't a theory, but more like a sense of spaces. A sense that fills you in a way that is impossible not to notice. Things are simple, borderline automatic, a very thin closed loop of sensation and action. A bit like an ODE ;) If you're tuned, you can now "see" that space [1] path, lines and curves and glide on them through the movement inertia.
It's not a static space, it's more like a slightly viscous fluid that also responds to your changes of momentum. If you decide not to glide smoothly anymore, you're welcome to do so, but the ground, the space will now change shape, so you have to know how to stay tuned and react to that. Then you can keep on gliding and it will feel musical.
My most used word when speaking about music is sensitivity.
[1] seeing in the abstract geometrical sense, a notion of direction, distance, scale, that we use to move, but can be used to organize any kind of sensory inputs I believe.
E.g. scales could be thought of buildings. One can hardly make one without inflecting it in some way that reflects values. To the point where evading this inevitability invokes meta-communication.