-
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 scale has 12 pitches of increasing frequency. For now we call these pitches 1, 2, 3,…..12. After step 12 the scale repeats, but every pitch/note will have a…
-
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 was learning about various chords that somehow belong together. At some point the need to improvise a melody arose. You use a scale, or two, or three. Then…
-
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.
-
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, only now do I start feeling somewhat comfortable. Sure, there is the issue of smaller string spacing on my seven string electrics. Then there is my habit of…
-
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 food preparation. If you asked me today when did I start to cook, I would tell you that I always loved preparing my own food. That is of…
-
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 would it develop? Would it develop pretty much along the same lines? Totally different? Now, take something like Mathematics. Push the RESET button. Do we expect the exact…
- Call the Police video (2)
- Comics (5)
- Construction (2)
- Deep Reality Anomalies (10)
- Documentary (5)
- Food (1)
- Fringelab (1)
- Griffy Lake (2)
- Hands-On (1)
- Home Improvement (1)
- Meta-Deep-Reality (1)
- Music (6)
- Music & Science (10)
- Peter's Money (2)
- Philosophy (4)
- Rantings (4)
- Rounding Errors (4)
- Science (10)
- SF (2)
- Solar Energy (8)
- Space (5)
- Turn-o-trope (1)
- UFO (3)
- Video & Animation (7)
- Workshop (1)