The Sweet Poison of Contemporary Music

The frequencies of the “twelve notes” from which all Western music is made are based on numbers that cannot be found in nature. This tuning system called "Equal Temperament" is dissonant and out-of-tune, thus poisonous, yet to our complacent ears it sounds good. This 3-page essay, also available for free on author's website, explains without using any form of standardized music theory how that is possible.