Granular material physics of granular matter and whose book "The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes" remains an important reference to this day. According to material scientist Patrick Richard, "Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and are the second-most manipulated material in industry (the first one is water)". In some sense, granular materials do not constitute a single phase of matter but have characteristics reminiscent of solids, liquids, or gases depending on the average energy per grain. However, in each of these states granular materials also exhibit properties which are unique. Granular materials also exhibit a wide range of pattern forming
Granular synthesis possible. Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is known as the inventor of the granular synthesis technique. Canadian composer Barry Truax was one of the first to implement real-time versions of this synthesis technique. "Granular synthesis has been implemented in different ways, notably by the Canadian composer Barry Truax." There are now many dedicated devices available for exploring granular synthesis without using a computer. Many of these devices are in the Eurorack modular synthesizer format, such as: Granular synthesis Granular synthesis is a basic sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. It is based on the same principle as