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A01. The Chromatic Substrate
Read more: A01. The Chromatic SubstrateWe are using the 12 note chromatic scale as the basic substrate for our exploration of music theory and its possible parallels with the fabric of reality. Above the twelve steps with sound frequencies above each step (or “station”). The Chromatic Scale normally used in modern Western music has a pretty clear definition. “Our” chromatic […]
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A. Only A Music Theory
Read more: A. Only A Music TheoryWhen I started playing guitar at age 14 or so, I was concentrating on the sheer awkwardness of getting to make my fingers hold down the right string in the right position. Only after the physical aspect got a little easier and more second nature, did music theory come in the mix. At first it […]
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Semantics and the lowest common denominator
Read more: Semantics and the lowest common denominatorThis is how huge pyramids of fringe theories are built on hot air.
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Who controls the 8th string?
Read more: Who controls the 8th string?A few years ago I started playing seven string guitar. It’s only an added B string below the low E. And while I am practicing quite a bit, composed several pieces for seven string classical guitar and adapted J. S. Bach’s 15 Two Part Inventions and all of the Well Tempered Clavier for the instrument, […]
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The Cooking/Composing Analogy
Read more: The Cooking/Composing AnalogyThis is one of the many things which I only discovered a little later in my life. Over the past few weeks I have been reading through a book called “Cooking for Geeks” by Jeff Potter. Amongst many cool recipes and cooking related interviews it contains tons of scientific information about what is happening during […]
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Rebooting Reality, part 1
Read more: Rebooting Reality, part 1I have often wondered what would happen if we could start over with something. For example language. Let’s say we wind back time to the beginning of the development of language – assuming, for the moment, there is such a thing as a starting point. If we let it run again from that moment how […]
