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I had been going to say almost the same thing -- to me sounds more like F semiflat with a significant inharmonic overtone of E sesquiflat. Then again, my sense of pitch defaults to A = 415 Hz. And it has a slight octave stretch, which I have not yet had the opportunity to calibrate over 57 octaves, so maybe the original note would sound like B semiflat if I could live long enough and have a head vacuous enough to hear it.
Okay you know how expensive it is to get the sound out with even C# I went to whatever 440 is not sounds like detuned it just sounds like quacking ducks to them anyway some serious riffing that I get after it's made?
Hah! You sure are sharp one, that gave me a bit of a minor chuckle from that joke. It certainly didn’t fall flat. Anyway, maybe I am just a little augmented, but I am feel like I like things are a bit sus, sort of not natural, so I might have to cut to the coda, and dip.
I have been obsessed with jazz and the science behind music for years after I may or may not have consumed a substance that truly changed the way I think about harmony and it’s connection to us and the world. When trying to navigate the internet for more information on the topic I continually run into new age bullshit in trying to find real information. Like I believe there is an almost religious significance to harmony and it’s infinite combinations. But in trying to find something deeper you run into predatory or ignorant people trying to peddle healing noises and I don’t believe any of that. You have been a wonderful source of information beyond what is normally taught in classic music theory.
@@LeviMcClainI do to anyone who is willing to listen to me rant about music. Music is the healing “magic” that they claim their healing sounds are. Just looking at what music therapy does for Alzheimer’s patients and the development of the brain in general, it’s evil to try and lead people away from the truth with mystic bs.
Never hear bout those fellas killing cancer with vibrations? How’s any musician not recognize some “healing” aspect from music even if it’s just psychological.
I’m in the same boat with you! From what I’ve seen, there is a frequency achievable to obtain the resonant frequencies of physical objects. So there is the possibility that both feelings and physical states of life including sickness is present. Saying yes before eliminating the possibility allows the solution to be seen. Remember math is music and music is math so there is indeed a possibility of qualitative math and music that we have yet to open ourselves to the possibility of perceiving. I learned this in my growth process of writing my book on music theory “The Loney SmithLocksmith Music Theory 1.0” and named it in honor of my late father who was a natural mathematician. I just remembered that I came down with septic meningitis (not the more potentially deadly bacterial meningitis but the pain is no joke still) in 2007 and hearing the sound of acoustic guitar was like drinking the best water in a desert oasis! I suspect that King Saul in the Holy Bible had meningitis too that David was able to alleviate pain when he played the lyre. So I’m a witness to the healing powers of music.
the way i had to pause at 6:59 with tears in my eyes to just pause because i just had an out of body experience from your little song and painting combo got damn
It's strange to see this now because I just finished a video that explains why composers use the key of B as and airy, spiritual key. It's called, "How Ghostbusters was written in the key of ghosts." I also have been convinced that B-flat is purple and that B is magenta. Magenta being the last color on the rainbow before it literally disappears into ultraviolet. Therefore, B-natural being the transition to the "ghostly" or "aetheric" plane. Also, I've heard this note being called the "God frequency," and that Nicola Tesla's statement about the secrets of the universe being found in 3, 6, & 9. Well, 369hz is a B note. Historically known as one of the sacred Solfeggio Frequencies. I also see the 5th-degree of B-flat, the F-note, as lime-green. He mentions amplifying the super-low B half-flat to an audible frequency, and that that pitch is relative to lime green light. Well, the crazy this is that magenta is the opposite of lime-green. Give or take a few degrees of color, but the point is that instead of seeing the B-flat/and B notes as green-ish, I see them as the opposite: violet and magenta. So, for example, when he shows the D-minor chords as colors, it's basically the same colors I associate with D-minor, except the D itself is not Blue, but rather the opposite of blue: Orange. It also explains why D-minor is such a stark, depressing key. Because the happiness of D major (Hayden's Sunrise Symphony in D, or Beethoven's 9th symphony, the "Ode to Joy."), well that happy feeling becomes really sad when the D is inverted to minor. In minor the lively orange becomes a ghoulish jack-o-lantern orange. Which explains the Gothic creepyness of JS Bach famous Toccata & Fuge in D-minor. But, speaking about B and B-flat (purples) there is a contrastng note, i believe. the Pastorals of the Baroque and Classical times were traditionally written in F and F#, as in Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony no. 4 in F." Green. The "country-side" music. Final point is that the New Age community seems to be calling 369hz (a flatter B-note) the "God Frequency." And i'm saying that B is an aetheric-sounding, sort of angelic key (very transparent), and Nikoa Tesla is saying that the 369 as something to do with understanding the cosmic. Also, B-flat is very dreamy (Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet," which was used in David Lynch's film of the same name." So, to me, B, from B-flat is the dream that "takes flight." (Angles, ghost theme, etc.). You can hear in sound of the key; in the texture of each note. I'll try to put the link here, but don't know if i'm allowed to. If, it doesn't work, the film in not here on my optical illusion channel, but on my main page, The Acoustic Rabbit Hole. Search: How Ghostbusters was written in the key of ghosts. Frank Montoya. ua-cam.com/video/WI1-sDyJF40/v-deo.html
Scriabin considered the most "cosmic" key to be F# major, and the most mundane, unsurprisingly, to be C major. Ask Scriabin about color hearing, but I think there is a huge difference between what the B-flat and B represent, same with F and F-sharp I tend to agree on other things, though
@@_antillas8674 Hi, thanks or reading my thoughts here (not literally, of course. Ha.) Concerning "cosmic" keys, I can say that F# and B are the most sensitive transitional-points between vocal register-shift in the SATB human voice (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass). Also, F# is very weird. It has a wobbly, unstable sound. Makes a nice choo-choo train sound with you bang it out with an open 5th. If we see middle C as red or "home" (home and hearth, love, self), and go up chromatically by color, F# falls of Green--the opposite of red. Bees as one hive buzz in a C note. But, anyway, yes this explains the trancedental aspects of F# as you mentioned. F# splits the octave of Middel to higher (or lower C). I also claim that you can hear a wampth the notes from C to F (the "warm colors") and a cool, sort of grounding texture from F# to B (the cool colors on the color wheel. I don't intend to sound so absolutist in saying that B-flat and B should be "reserved" for "spiritual and dreamy" themes. Poetry is just the easiest way to explain it. But the SOUND from a Bb compared to B cannot be ingnored. I have my piano students just keep a journal and compare one to to an adjacent note, and start writing down the differences in texture that the year. I've heard stories of young tuners complain that they can't get the buzz out of F#, only have older piano technicians tell them that F# just sounds that way. Also, Scriabin's color associations are not only similar to mine, but most of the of ones actually turn out to be inversions or "opposite" colors!
I always wondered why the opening of Wagner's final opera of the ring cycle, Götterdämmerung, has such a monumental effect on me! It sounds to be in B major, well the first portion is anyways lol.
The pitch of the highest possible frequency (Plank frequency) is 1.85487 × 10^52 Hz, divided down by two 165 times gives us 396.61 Hz (20.26 cents above G).
5:43 That reminds me, the vast differences between how we sense sound waves for hearing and light waves for sight makes for some wild analogies. With hearing we can distinguish between individual waves, but with light, we just sense three inputs that roughly correspond to low, medium and high frequencies. So there's a wholly unique timbre tied not just to each color, but to every material that appears the same color. Jake Chudnow's track 'Hydrogen' sonifies the pinkish glow of hydrogen, but if you sonify different chemicals that look the same color, they'll have different pitches!
Actually, the ending of your video, was the most of beautiful thing I've ever heard and, I've always thought so. I tried so hard to convince people around me about the exact things you said and they never listened and called me delusional, now with this video, I can finally prove them. Thank you.
I feel horrifically bad for the people who got bored and quit the video after the first 3 minutes, this video is MUCH more interesting then the title, youtube needs more of this. really mean it this time
Such a cool video with lots to think about. Thanks for including the caveat highlighting the difference between audio waves and light waves. Can we get a new clef designed specifically for celestial objects?
@@BobRafferty Thank you! The caveat is soooo important. Like sonification can be really cool, but so see too many articles being like “this is what a molecule sounds like!” Like wait, no. It doesn’t sound like anything, it’s a molecule. You just manipulated a data set and are making a slightly disingenuous claim. That said, if we’re upfront and honest about it, sonification can be a great source of inspiration. Also, I bet if the guy who came up with the Harmony of the Spheres concept lived longer, we’d probably have celestial clefs 😂
I have to thank you. I've spent a lifetime trying to expand my horizons and thoughts. It becomes harder as I age to find new perspectives. Now I have a wonderful prize. Thank you.
Nice presentation. Thank you! In mention of 'seeing sounds', I recently read of early brain/nerve surgery that had 'crossed some wires', hooked up nerves wrong, that exhibited similar results. People could see sounds as colors, feel smells, etc. Makes perfect 'sense' as the 5 senses basically pick up and interpret external LIGHT (frequencies) in various 'OCTAVES'. Dr. Jack Kruse, in a fairly recent interview, mentioned that hearing actually functions in this manner. ALL IS MIND is an old state'MENT' implying that the external universe is the projection of MIND. As thoughts can be measured as waves via EEG, the ancient oil ent texts that speak of LIGHT and WATER as being fundaMENTAL 'first constructs' fits this IDEA. Hydrogen is the FIRST eleMENT. If a vacuum is pulled in a given space and every ATOM is drawn out, a hydrogen atom will mysteriously form 'out of no thing'. This basic 'FORM' consists of NEUTRON (neuter), PROTON (positive or 'masculine') and ELECTRON (negative or 'feminine'). ALL of MATTER/Mother/Meter (time) is based on this object/observer, MIND/MATTER/"BODY" 'perspective'. Hydrogen atom is 'unstable' alone and requires TWO to form a stable structure. The SECOND element is helium. The first and second are what stars (LIGHT) consist of. The EIGHTH element is oxygen, completing the FIRST FUNDA"MENTAL" OCTAVE. ALL LIFE is 'based' "UP" ON WATER. If a SINGLE DROP OF WATER is in a vacuum, it's form is a LIQUID CRYSTALINE SPHERE, or CRYSTAL BALL, reflecting the SPHERE OF MIND. If THOUGHT/THOTH/"THAT" moves at varying frequencies, a prismatic effect will produce every FORM within a single drop of water. Trippy, huh? This is 'hiw' ONE/ALPHA, subdivided into (IN TWO)"/BETA, or "B", creates ALL. "B" coming from "A". ALPHABET forms ALL "LIVING WORDS".
Wow, wow, wow. So glad this came across my feed. The juxtaposition of my favorite things : Art, music, science and history. I couldn't subscribe fast enough.
What do you think of using microtones with difference tones? I did it once in my music but i want to do more. there's a lot of things to think about: let's pick an easy one, doing ji chords with difference tones. You'll have to start by the first tone, which is a choice because as long as difference is the same, effect is the same. Then when you get the second pair of tones, you realize it interferes with the others: do you let them be, or space them out? Or maybe use mathematically the difference between three tones to create three distinct difference tones. However, keep going and you'll notice the effect starts to get overriden by the brain trying to figure out the fundamental of those "would be" harmonics. Real puzzle 😂 and i feel very alone messing with that, but you could help me =)
I just realized how dumb i am. Just like how tim follin arpeggiated chords fast on polyphonically limited hardware to make it sound like chords, i can arpeggiate difference tones pairs. Let the experiments begin
The 1:36 extract is unlikely to be a true sonification of the black hole, as capturing such a long sample of ultra-low frequency sound would require hundreds of millions of years of recording. It's more likely an artistic interpretation.
The jazz musicians can rejoice along with the microtonalists -- as I listen to traditional jazz bands that often don't have an instrument such as a piano that is completely incapable o pitch bend, I have gotten more of an appreciation of how much they are willing to bend pitches to get just intonation, even if (as far as I know) they don't write it down that way.
very cool - i remember reading abt that a few yrs ago, but this video brings it to life. kinda wish NASA had tuned their sonification to Bb (or B-half flat), instead of E, tho. kinda feels like a missed opportunity on their end.
This is super interesting! Math, music, art… it’s all deeply connected, like complementary colors in the color wheel translated to music make basically a relation of a perfect fifth. This video deeply reminds me of Adam Neely’s Ted Talk, thanks for explaining and clarifying the actual discovery!
As someone who loves to pursue art and music, I found the concept of converting color into music extremely fascinating! I think it'd be awesome to see how other paintings could sound like.
We should think in terms of frequency detection because those rhythmic clicks means we continue to detect frequencies below 20 HZ across another 10 octaves to around a click every half minute or so where our sense of a regular beat falls off. This means we detect frequency across about 20 octaves, 10 by tone and 10 by tempo although for the highest and lowest octaves accuracy falls off, but not at 20 HZ where a pulse or a square or a ramp or other wave with plenty of harmonics sounds equally like a fast tempo or a low pitch both of which identify frequency.
Actually, if you use 444hz tuning, a "Bb" is 469.92hz, which is definitely closer to 477hz (B half flat in 444hz is roughly 488hz, a little under twice the distance).
This all sounds like a perfect strategy for a winning play in the Glass Bead Game. “The rules of the game are only alluded to-they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.”
Scriabin's colour organ: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavier_à_lumières Premièred 100 years later: ua-cam.com/video/V3B7uQ5K0IU/v-deo.html Unfortunately, the video doesn't do justice to either the light organ - since it's a completely different thing to be surrounded by light, compared to look at a small flat rectangle in front of you - nor to the music, mostly because of the extreme dynamics of the piece: one instant, the whole brass section with percussion, the next a solo violin with a harp; one instant, a flute plays a single theme, the next everyone plays different polyphonically interlocking themes. On the recording, they must have a sort of compressor to make everything sound equally loud and just the same. And the choir has to be HUGE and stand behind the orchestra. You didn't hear anything from them, except at the beginning, did you? They should really be absolutely massive by the end. But all of this was just caveats about the recording, not the performance: For those who were there, immersed in the lights, hearing complex themes in overwhelming dynamics, and close to the choir, it must have been a transcendental experience. Well, matter didn't dissolve, but otherwise, I'm sure.
This is the video I’ve been tryna make since I was 21 in 2006… I’m glad that I can learn from like minded Scientists of Sound so I can focus on the Magickal aspects! I’m wondering who’s, linked the Chromatic Scale/Circle of Fifths to the 12 Simple Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet…
since our screens (usually) only have rgb. then it would always be the same three notes at different intensities. But any in-between colors could be represented with two colors to an unlimited amount. Not to mention constructive and destructive waves; plus additive v subtractive v averaging. averaging linearly or not. plus the perceived loudness of frequencies is not linear along perceived light.
Johnny b Goode Bb. Pentatonic scales The only music track on the gold disc of NASA Coincidence Music cannot be heard in space The ozone layer acts like the skin inside of your eardrum Using a oscillator you can hear low tones electronically. Equipment can impose lower octaves and relate to higher octaves hence the planet noise is 9 octaves lower that is outside of our range of hearing so a oscillator is used
I plan or hope to build some circuits, or some others that exist or others have built...that transform one signal into a new type, say optocouplers, or sending a signal through a different medium, then turning it back into an audio signal etc. You to some degree end up hearing the "stuff" in ways....
I want to see someone make a program that transforms images into sound, and vice versa. I imagine it would be difficult to implement in a way that makes sense, like idk in which order should the pixels be translated/created. But it would be beyond awesome to see classical pieces and hear abstract art. Great video btw, made me wonder
There are lots of applications that turn sound into images: spectrograms are normally used for audio analysis and engineering, but they can also be used creatively. There are also programs that treat any image as a spectrogram and turn it into audio, for instance Coagula and Metasynth. Aphex Twin famously used the latter to encode his face into the track commonly known as “Formula”.
So can we use musical notes as symbols in math now? That would be nice and pretty cool. Physics class will become more complicated because it's becoming more musical
I think it would’ve been more interesting and less “up for interpretation” for the art pieces to be represented with a chord in which each notes volume corresponds to the amount of the color in the painting and is played as a chord.
Idk if you will see this but how can i get into microtonal music? How can i make it i love your videos but i dont have the resources to buy these instruments at the moment. Thank you!
Could you please make some microtonal music that grooves hard.I mean something like microtonal funk😁.Because most of the microtonal music I ve heard isnt the most rythmitically interesting though still very enjoyable.
You've basically just shown if we chose a mapping of something onto another thing the latter thing will exist. So if we map the period of oscillation of a particular black hole to audible frequencies by octave doubling, it loosely resembles Bb? It's closer to Bd? Not even. It may be closer to Bd but it's still +1.02cents(12tet,base-ten) sharp. Or if you superficially map colors to audible frequencies then all of a sudden these frequencies were somehow "hidden" within the art? No actually the colors are 1) a completely different fundamental particle (emr/fluid pressure) and 2) a completely different frequency range (with no obvious simple map to capture all visible color frequencies to all audible sonic frequencies). You just showed one possible artificial mapping of them. This isn't to say the music you've made isn't beautiful, and it has its meaning too, but you cannot say that the music existed in the art from the start. You cannot say that your audible pitch Bd is some kind of fundamental pitch. The A=440 12TET system is COMPLETELY manmade and yet so many people seem to think of it (also human languages, base-10 numbers, and many other things) as some fundamental parts of the universe. They're just not. Dig a little deeper, please.
Maybe you aren’t the best at reading between the lines, but I’ve implied many times throughout this video that sonification is a messy messy business. That’s the whole issue with sonification in the first place. Any number of mappings are possible, and this should not be taken as seriously as you are right now. I even specifically address and highlight both of your relevant points in this video as well. This is just a fun experiment to get people inspired about math, science, and music. Also, 1 cent is for all intents and real world purposes, negligible.
@@LeviMcClain You're absolutely correct that you imply and specifically state several of those things I mentioned. You do appear to have a good grasp on reality. I do admire your curiosity and willingness to experiment with math and science, and sorry if I came across a little harsh. I guess I'm more frustrated with the vast majority of people who seem to take human language, base-10 and a440 12tet as objective fact rather than human construct. This video, while it does address those points, still takes a few jumps in logic. Specifically, I feel like you've glossed over the fact that an infinite number of arbitrary mappings exist (and that is alright - that obviously wasn't the point of the video). Honestly, I mean no disrespect to you and I'm sorry how my comment came out. I do like your editing style and video quality, and even if I personally think some of the points (or lack thereof) may mislead some viewers into continuing in a common fallacy, I do overall like your video. Keep it up!
Wondering why the NASA sonification at 1:36 is tuned to E instead of Bd or Bb? Sonification can be a messy business... Check out the extended cut of this video over on Patreon to find out why! www.patreon.com/LeviMcClain
I had been going to say almost the same thing -- to me sounds more like F semiflat with a significant inharmonic overtone of E sesquiflat. Then again, my sense of pitch defaults to A = 415 Hz. And it has a slight octave stretch, which I have not yet had the opportunity to calibrate over 57 octaves, so maybe the original note would sound like B semiflat if I could live long enough and have a head vacuous enough to hear it.
Joke: The 18-Universe Multiverse also has a sound. A (22/30 Sharp).
@@hqTheToaster I think I am missing a cultural reference that I should know.
Okay you know how expensive it is to get the sound out with even C# I went to whatever 440 is not sounds like detuned it just sounds like quacking ducks to them anyway some serious riffing that I get after it's made?
Drop tuned death metal.
That universal lick near the start lol
Universal lick plays* Suddenly flys into the solar system because yes
2:49 Microtonal earbleed
Aaah… my brain hertz!
Hah! You sure are sharp one, that gave me a bit of a minor chuckle from that joke. It certainly didn’t fall flat. Anyway, maybe I am just a little augmented, but I am feel like I like things are a bit sus, sort of not natural, so I might have to cut to the coda, and dip.
@@xcaedesmy braincell count diminished from reading that
@@American_PhilippineA you must have some major brain damage then
@@xcaedes😂
Is it frequenct?
so this is what king gizzard meant by "cosmic microtone background"
Witchcraft
Ah so we clicked this for the same reason I see
One of the best discography that i ever listen from a band
I have been obsessed with jazz and the science behind music for years after I may or may not have consumed a substance that truly changed the way I think about harmony and it’s connection to us and the world. When trying to navigate the internet for more information on the topic I continually run into new age bullshit in trying to find real information. Like I believe there is an almost religious significance to harmony and it’s infinite combinations. But in trying to find something deeper you run into predatory or ignorant people trying to peddle healing noises and I don’t believe any of that. You have been a wonderful source of information beyond what is normally taught in classic music theory.
@@ChunskieFartFilms I really appreciate that, and share your aversion to predatory new age sound healing claims 😂
@@LeviMcClainI do to anyone who is willing to listen to me rant about music. Music is the healing “magic” that they claim their healing sounds are. Just looking at what music therapy does for Alzheimer’s patients and the development of the brain in general, it’s evil to try and lead people away from the truth with mystic bs.
Never hear bout those fellas killing cancer with vibrations?
How’s any musician not recognize some “healing” aspect from music even if it’s just psychological.
I’m in the same boat with you!
From what I’ve seen, there is a frequency achievable to obtain the resonant frequencies of physical objects.
So there is the possibility that both feelings and physical states of life including sickness is present.
Saying yes before eliminating the possibility allows the solution to be seen.
Remember math is music and music is math so there is indeed a possibility of qualitative math and music that we have yet to open ourselves to the possibility of perceiving.
I learned this in my growth process of writing my book on music theory “The Loney SmithLocksmith Music Theory 1.0” and named it in honor of my late father who was a natural mathematician.
I just remembered that I came down with septic meningitis (not the more potentially deadly bacterial meningitis but the pain is no joke still) in 2007 and hearing the sound of acoustic guitar was like drinking the best water in a desert oasis!
I suspect that King Saul in the Holy Bible had meningitis too that David was able to alleviate pain when he played the lyre.
So I’m a witness to the healing powers of music.
Share more please i am interested
the way i had to pause at 6:59 with tears in my eyes to just pause because i just had an out of body experience from your little song and painting combo got damn
It's strange to see this now because I just finished a video that explains why composers use the key of B as and airy, spiritual key. It's called, "How Ghostbusters was written in the key of ghosts." I also have been convinced that B-flat is purple and that B is magenta. Magenta being the last color on the rainbow before it literally disappears into ultraviolet. Therefore, B-natural being the transition to the "ghostly" or "aetheric" plane. Also, I've heard this note being called the "God frequency," and that Nicola Tesla's statement about the secrets of the universe being found in 3, 6, & 9. Well, 369hz is a B note. Historically known as one of the sacred Solfeggio Frequencies.
I also see the 5th-degree of B-flat, the F-note, as lime-green. He mentions amplifying the super-low B half-flat to an audible frequency, and that that pitch is relative to lime green light. Well, the crazy this is that magenta is the opposite of lime-green. Give or take a few degrees of color, but the point is that instead of seeing the B-flat/and B notes as green-ish, I see them as the opposite: violet and magenta.
So, for example, when he shows the D-minor chords as colors, it's basically the same colors I associate with D-minor, except the D itself is not Blue, but rather the opposite of blue: Orange. It also explains why D-minor is such a stark, depressing key. Because the happiness of D major (Hayden's Sunrise Symphony in D, or Beethoven's 9th symphony, the "Ode to Joy."), well that happy feeling becomes really sad when the D is inverted to minor. In minor the lively orange becomes a ghoulish jack-o-lantern orange. Which explains the Gothic creepyness of JS Bach famous Toccata & Fuge in D-minor.
But, speaking about B and B-flat (purples) there is a contrastng note, i believe. the Pastorals of the Baroque and Classical times were traditionally written in F and F#, as in Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony no. 4 in F." Green. The "country-side" music.
Final point is that the New Age community seems to be calling 369hz (a flatter B-note) the "God Frequency."
And i'm saying that B is an aetheric-sounding, sort of angelic key (very transparent), and Nikoa Tesla is saying that the 369 as something to do with understanding the cosmic. Also, B-flat is very dreamy (Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet," which was used in David Lynch's film of the same name." So, to me, B, from B-flat is the dream that "takes flight." (Angles, ghost theme, etc.). You can hear in sound of the key; in the texture of each note.
I'll try to put the link here, but don't know if i'm allowed to. If, it doesn't work, the film in not here on my optical illusion channel, but on my main page, The Acoustic Rabbit Hole. Search:
How Ghostbusters was written in the key of ghosts. Frank Montoya.
ua-cam.com/video/WI1-sDyJF40/v-deo.html
Scriabin considered the most "cosmic" key to be F# major, and the most mundane, unsurprisingly, to be C major.
Ask Scriabin about color hearing, but I think there is a huge difference between what the B-flat and B represent, same with F and F-sharp
I tend to agree on other things, though
@@_antillas8674 Hi, thanks or reading my thoughts here (not literally, of course. Ha.)
Concerning "cosmic" keys, I can say that F# and B are the most sensitive transitional-points between vocal register-shift in the SATB human voice (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass).
Also, F# is very weird. It has a wobbly, unstable sound. Makes a nice choo-choo train sound with you bang it out with an open 5th. If we see middle C as red or "home" (home and hearth, love, self), and go up chromatically by color, F# falls of Green--the opposite of red. Bees as one hive buzz in a C note.
But, anyway, yes this explains the trancedental aspects of F# as you mentioned. F# splits the octave of Middel to higher (or lower C). I also claim that you can hear a wampth the notes from C to F (the "warm colors") and a cool, sort of grounding texture from F# to B (the cool colors on the color wheel.
I don't intend to sound so absolutist in saying that B-flat and B should be "reserved" for "spiritual and dreamy" themes. Poetry is just the easiest way to explain it. But the SOUND from a Bb compared to B cannot be ingnored.
I have my piano students just keep a journal and compare one to to an adjacent note, and start writing down the differences in texture that the year. I've heard stories of young tuners complain that they can't get the buzz out of F#, only have older piano technicians tell them that F# just sounds that way.
Also, Scriabin's color associations are not only similar to mine, but most of the of ones actually turn out to be inversions or "opposite" colors!
i wnoder if this is why im obsessed with the colour magenta
I always wondered why the opening of Wagner's final opera of the ring cycle, Götterdämmerung, has such a monumental effect on me! It sounds to be in B major, well the first portion is anyways lol.
Last time I checked, 369 Hz was a F#. B would be 500 Hz
This is mindblowing! Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
The pitch of the highest possible frequency (Plank frequency) is 1.85487 × 10^52 Hz, divided down by two 165 times gives us 396.61 Hz (20.26 cents above G).
Fun fact: if you work with the Bohlen-Pierce scale enough, your brain will develop tritave equivalency. Just ask Elaine Walker.
5:43 That reminds me, the vast differences between how we sense sound waves for hearing and light waves for sight makes for some wild analogies. With hearing we can distinguish between individual waves, but with light, we just sense three inputs that roughly correspond to low, medium and high frequencies. So there's a wholly unique timbre tied not just to each color, but to every material that appears the same color. Jake Chudnow's track 'Hydrogen' sonifies the pinkish glow of hydrogen, but if you sonify different chemicals that look the same color, they'll have different pitches!
Actually, the ending of your video, was the most of beautiful thing I've ever heard and, I've always thought so. I tried so hard to convince people around me about the exact things you said and they never listened and called me delusional, now with this video, I can finally prove them. Thank you.
🧍♀️i dont know how you keep pumping out musical epiphanies but i cant complain
I feel horrifically bad for the people who got bored and quit the video after the first 3 minutes, this video is MUCH more interesting then the title, youtube needs more of this. really mean it this time
@@ishansalamon according to analytics, that is about 80% of people who watched 😅
Such a cool video with lots to think about. Thanks for including the caveat highlighting the difference between audio waves and light waves.
Can we get a new clef designed specifically for celestial objects?
oh my thats a great idea xD. but since everything has a neatural frequenty, you could have a chair clef? or a raw tuna clef? maybe a dress clef ^.^
@@BobRafferty Thank you! The caveat is soooo important. Like sonification can be really cool, but so see too many articles being like “this is what a molecule sounds like!” Like wait, no. It doesn’t sound like anything, it’s a molecule. You just manipulated a data set and are making a slightly disingenuous claim. That said, if we’re upfront and honest about it, sonification can be a great source of inspiration. Also, I bet if the guy who came up with the Harmony of the Spheres concept lived longer, we’d probably have celestial clefs 😂
That was a really good one, thanks for sharing the nature of reality through musical lenses💜🎶
I have to thank you.
I've spent a lifetime trying to expand my horizons and thoughts.
It becomes harder as I age to find new perspectives.
Now I have a wonderful prize. Thank you.
I love your videos, they are so poetic, but also super interesting, and the music is great! Thank you, and happy new year!
Nice presentation. Thank you!
In mention of 'seeing sounds', I recently read of early brain/nerve surgery that had 'crossed some wires', hooked up nerves wrong, that exhibited similar results. People could see sounds as colors, feel smells, etc.
Makes perfect 'sense' as the 5 senses basically pick up and interpret external LIGHT (frequencies) in various 'OCTAVES'. Dr. Jack Kruse, in a fairly recent interview, mentioned that hearing actually functions in this manner.
ALL IS MIND is an old state'MENT' implying that the external universe is the projection of MIND. As thoughts can be measured as waves via EEG, the ancient oil ent texts that speak of LIGHT and WATER as being fundaMENTAL 'first constructs' fits this IDEA.
Hydrogen is the FIRST eleMENT. If a vacuum is pulled in a given space and every ATOM is drawn out, a hydrogen atom will mysteriously form 'out of no thing'.
This basic 'FORM' consists of NEUTRON (neuter), PROTON (positive or 'masculine') and ELECTRON (negative or 'feminine'). ALL of MATTER/Mother/Meter (time) is based on this object/observer, MIND/MATTER/"BODY" 'perspective'.
Hydrogen atom is 'unstable' alone and requires TWO to form a stable structure.
The SECOND element is helium. The first and second are what stars (LIGHT) consist of.
The EIGHTH element is oxygen, completing the FIRST FUNDA"MENTAL" OCTAVE. ALL LIFE is 'based' "UP" ON WATER.
If a SINGLE DROP OF WATER is in a vacuum, it's form is a LIQUID CRYSTALINE SPHERE, or CRYSTAL BALL, reflecting the SPHERE OF MIND.
If THOUGHT/THOTH/"THAT" moves at varying frequencies, a prismatic effect will produce every FORM within a single drop of water. Trippy, huh?
This is 'hiw' ONE/ALPHA, subdivided into (IN TWO)"/BETA, or "B", creates ALL.
"B" coming from "A".
ALPHABET forms ALL "LIVING WORDS".
What a beautiful, thought provoking video. You’ve got me looking at paintings in a new light.
Nice work, thank you for all your videos man
very nice video, thank you
Wow, wow, wow. So glad this came across my feed. The juxtaposition of my favorite things : Art, music, science and history. I couldn't subscribe fast enough.
What do you think of using microtones with difference tones? I did it once in my music but i want to do more. there's a lot of things to think about: let's pick an easy one, doing ji chords with difference tones. You'll have to start by the first tone, which is a choice because as long as difference is the same, effect is the same. Then when you get the second pair of tones, you realize it interferes with the others: do you let them be, or space them out? Or maybe use mathematically the difference between three tones to create three distinct difference tones. However, keep going and you'll notice the effect starts to get overriden by the brain trying to figure out the fundamental of those "would be" harmonics. Real puzzle 😂 and i feel very alone messing with that, but you could help me =)
I just realized how dumb i am. Just like how tim follin arpeggiated chords fast on polyphonically limited hardware to make it sound like chords, i can arpeggiate difference tones pairs. Let the experiments begin
Loveeeeee the infinitone effect 2:40
Fantastic work , picasso's guitarist truly brought tears to my eyes. I really appreciated this content thank you.
Love the microtones used here
Very well done indeed! Love it 🙂😄🥰
The riff at the beginning broke my mind in everyway
Awesome video as always!
The 1:36 extract is unlikely to be a true sonification of the black hole, as capturing such a long sample of ultra-low frequency sound would require hundreds of millions of years of recording. It's more likely an artistic interpretation.
Best channel on youtube, god you're incredible
@@TheBlueKidBuu thank you!
Great work! Thank you. Wish you a merry Xmas🎉
Thx for the great video got my sub! Very interesting, happy new year !!!
I've thought this will be about a universe sound but there is so much more. Amazing
B half flat is a very important note in Maqam music called Sika
I prefer A half sharp
The jazz musicians can rejoice along with the microtonalists -- as I listen to traditional jazz bands that often don't have an instrument such as a piano that is completely incapable o pitch bend, I have gotten more of an appreciation of how much they are willing to bend pitches to get just intonation, even if (as far as I know) they don't write it down that way.
very cool - i remember reading abt that a few yrs ago, but this video brings it to life.
kinda wish NASA had tuned their sonification to Bb (or B-half flat), instead of E, tho. kinda feels like a missed opportunity on their end.
I was waiting for you to bring up Kandinsky! Lovely video
This is super interesting! Math, music, art… it’s all deeply connected, like complementary colors in the color wheel translated to music make basically a relation of a perfect fifth. This video deeply reminds me of Adam Neely’s Ted Talk, thanks for explaining and clarifying the actual discovery!
I love your musical interludes! 😝
This is fascinating and so cool and you put so much detail and care into this video, thank you!
As someone who loves to pursue art and music, I found the concept of converting color into music extremely fascinating! I think it'd be awesome to see how other paintings could sound like.
We should think in terms of frequency detection because those rhythmic clicks means we continue to detect frequencies below 20 HZ across another 10 octaves to around a click every half minute or so where our sense of a regular beat falls off.
This means we detect frequency across about 20 octaves, 10 by tone and 10 by tempo although for the highest and lowest octaves accuracy falls off, but not at 20 HZ where a pulse or a square or a ramp or other wave with plenty of harmonics sounds equally like a fast tempo or a low pitch both of which identify frequency.
If you’re going for the actual universal frequency, check out Planck units. One Planck frequency is 131 octaves above about 425 hz, between A and Ab
The kind of thing i would theorise about when im bored in a maths lesson
I gotta say, it has been a long time since I have found a video THIS EXCITING for me to learn!!! ☀️🙏🙏🙏💖
Loving your work man! Do you have a Spotify page?
My man's video quality gives off one-million-subscriber vibe❤
I hugely appreciate the beauty of this video, thank you.
Actually, if you use 444hz tuning, a "Bb" is 469.92hz, which is definitely closer to 477hz (B half flat in 444hz is roughly 488hz, a little under twice the distance).
ok but 444hz isn't the standard. why did you decide to use it here??
Bb is my favorite note actually so this is a very cool coincidence to learn about
This all sounds like a perfect strategy for a winning play in the Glass Bead Game.
“The rules of the game are only alluded to-they are so sophisticated that they are not easy to imagine. Playing the game well requires years of hard study of music, mathematics, and cultural history. The game is essentially an abstract synthesis of all arts and sciences. It proceeds by players making deep connections between seemingly unrelated topics.”
Scriabin's colour organ:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavier_à_lumières
Premièred 100 years later:
ua-cam.com/video/V3B7uQ5K0IU/v-deo.html
Unfortunately, the video doesn't do justice to either the light organ - since it's a completely different thing to be surrounded by light, compared to look at a small flat rectangle in front of you - nor to the music, mostly because of the extreme dynamics of the piece:
one instant, the whole brass section with percussion, the next a solo violin with a harp; one instant, a flute plays a single theme, the next everyone plays different polyphonically interlocking themes. On the recording, they must have a sort of compressor to make everything sound equally loud and just the same.
And the choir has to be HUGE and stand behind the orchestra. You didn't hear anything from them, except at the beginning, did you? They should really be absolutely massive by the end.
But all of this was just caveats about the recording, not the performance: For those who were there, immersed in the lights, hearing complex themes in overwhelming dynamics, and close to the choir, it must have been a transcendental experience. Well, matter didn't dissolve, but otherwise, I'm sure.
This is the video I’ve been tryna make since I was 21 in 2006…
I’m glad that I can learn from like minded Scientists of Sound so I can focus on the Magickal aspects!
I’m wondering who’s, linked the Chromatic Scale/Circle of Fifths to the 12 Simple Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet…
Waves are splines, splines are everywhere
Those drums sound like the Sonic Heroes drums
@@chaosevolution oh god
Beautiful day indeed. Thank you.
Brilliant video and you put in such high quality!
since our screens (usually) only have rgb. then it would always be the same three notes at different intensities. But any in-between colors could be represented with two colors to an unlimited amount. Not to mention constructive and destructive waves; plus additive v subtractive v averaging. averaging linearly or not. plus the perceived loudness of frequencies is not linear along perceived light.
Dient guitarists be like: " that's how low I want my guitars to sound like"
@@shaytkormac 😭😭😂
Hope you have a wonderful year❤
@@marlou169 you too!!
Bb tuned to what? A 440, 444, 432, etc?
@@timetobenotdo a440 of course!
@ The universe is fundamentally in tune with the western world’s century old standardized pitch?!
@@timetobenotdoit’s 477 Hz in A440. Which is about B half flat. You can do the math from there.
best music channel on UA-cam. underrated
@@Fh13_D thank you!
Actually incredible video
@@jaykayelle thank you!
Fantastic video you done here.
Johnny b Goode
Bb. Pentatonic scales
The only music track on the gold disc of NASA
Coincidence
Music cannot be heard in space
The ozone layer acts like the skin inside of your eardrum
Using a oscillator you can hear low tones electronically. Equipment can impose lower octaves and relate to higher octaves hence the planet noise is 9 octaves lower that is outside of our range of hearing so a oscillator is used
this is fascinating, just plain and simply fascinating.
love the vids man! really do. but i hate background dnb xD. keep the content comming bro
@@lucaslangen3059 noted 😅
"B flat blues scale - the demon at your feet - B flat blues scale - the lick can go to hell" -James Hetfield
picasso was doing magic lmao
Just incredible …
So many colors so little time
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this is the bassnectar bassnectar was talking about when bassnectar was writing music for bassnectar’s bassnectar shows 😮
i never thought i'd think of the noun phrase "mathematical synesthesia" but maybe my life is better because of it
2:39 The cosmic Licc is so low that even Uranus can feel it
When you consider sonoluminescence, it gets more interesting. Sound precedes light.
I love this video
What song is that at 9:51?
That was beautiful ❤
LMAO the licks had me dying.
I plan or hope to build some circuits, or some others that exist or others have built...that transform one signal into a new type, say optocouplers, or sending a signal through a different medium, then turning it back into an audio signal etc. You to some degree end up hearing the "stuff" in ways....
Yo this is insane I wish I had someone to talk deep with this about😔
The Perseus supercluster is in our local universe
I want to see someone make a program that transforms images into sound, and vice versa. I imagine it would be difficult to implement in a way that makes sense, like idk in which order should the pixels be translated/created. But it would be beyond awesome to see classical pieces and hear abstract art.
Great video btw, made me wonder
There are lots of applications that turn sound into images: spectrograms are normally used for audio analysis and engineering, but they can also be used creatively. There are also programs that treat any image as a spectrogram and turn it into audio, for instance Coagula and Metasynth. Aphex Twin famously used the latter to encode his face into the track commonly known as “Formula”.
@wellurban oh dang, I didn't know spectrograms included color. Ty for the info, I might just start experimenting
Awesome
@@the1youwanted2b thank you!
it makes more sense for our musical system to be just off the universal because that makes it pop more?? or it wuld be too harmonized............
That MD lick at the beginning. Jeez
So can we use musical notes as symbols in math now? That would be nice and pretty cool. Physics class will become more complicated because it's becoming more musical
Can you explain how you are deciding the rhythm and such? Are you just arbitrarily jumping around tones from within the image?
Yeah rhythm is just whatever I was feeling at the time - the notes are determined from the images
I think it would’ve been more interesting and less “up for interpretation” for the art pieces to be represented with a chord in which each notes volume corresponds to the amount of the color in the painting and is played as a chord.
Fascinating 🎶 what is the tone of the mind?
Ripples & reflections.
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All day everyday.
im not ready
The universe is apparently multitimbral frequency modulated and saturated with reverb.
😂😂😂
So thats where that rumbly distorted warping sound came from 😂
Where did you get the audio that you used at 2 minutes? The video linked in the description sounds different as far as I can tell
Universe: Anyway here’s wonderwall…
Idk if you will see this but how can i get into microtonal music? How can i make it i love your videos but i dont have the resources to buy these instruments at the moment. Thank you!
Could you please make some microtonal music that grooves hard.I mean something like microtonal funk😁.Because most of the microtonal music I ve heard isnt the most rythmitically interesting though still very enjoyable.
You've basically just shown if we chose a mapping of something onto another thing the latter thing will exist. So if we map the period of oscillation of a particular black hole to audible frequencies by octave doubling, it loosely resembles Bb? It's closer to Bd? Not even. It may be closer to Bd but it's still +1.02cents(12tet,base-ten) sharp. Or if you superficially map colors to audible frequencies then all of a sudden these frequencies were somehow "hidden" within the art? No actually the colors are 1) a completely different fundamental particle (emr/fluid pressure) and 2) a completely different frequency range (with no obvious simple map to capture all visible color frequencies to all audible sonic frequencies). You just showed one possible artificial mapping of them. This isn't to say the music you've made isn't beautiful, and it has its meaning too, but you cannot say that the music existed in the art from the start. You cannot say that your audible pitch Bd is some kind of fundamental pitch.
The A=440 12TET system is COMPLETELY manmade and yet so many people seem to think of it (also human languages, base-10 numbers, and many other things) as some fundamental parts of the universe. They're just not. Dig a little deeper, please.
Maybe you aren’t the best at reading between the lines, but I’ve implied many times throughout this video that sonification is a messy messy business. That’s the whole issue with sonification in the first place. Any number of mappings are possible, and this should not be taken as seriously as you are right now. I even specifically address and highlight both of your relevant points in this video as well. This is just a fun experiment to get people inspired about math, science, and music. Also, 1 cent is for all intents and real world purposes, negligible.
@@LeviMcClain You're absolutely correct that you imply and specifically state several of those things I mentioned. You do appear to have a good grasp on reality. I do admire your curiosity and willingness to experiment with math and science, and sorry if I came across a little harsh. I guess I'm more frustrated with the vast majority of people who seem to take human language, base-10 and a440 12tet as objective fact rather than human construct. This video, while it does address those points, still takes a few jumps in logic. Specifically, I feel like you've glossed over the fact that an infinite number of arbitrary mappings exist (and that is alright - that obviously wasn't the point of the video). Honestly, I mean no disrespect to you and I'm sorry how my comment came out.
I do like your editing style and video quality, and even if I personally think some of the points (or lack thereof) may mislead some viewers into continuing in a common fallacy, I do overall like your video. Keep it up!