This... is amazing. So just for perspective, I was rawkin' along, about to go to bed, when I saw this: And I studied acoustics in college, and I don't recall "Phi dampening" but it's been a while, so, interesting. And I went "Helmholtz resonators are entirely shape-independent." Area, volume, pressure, mass. But you know, this isn't an acoustics thing, it's a brain thing, so okay. And here I start getting skeptical - wave acoustics is reversible which means if a transmitter will do it, a reciever will, too. This is why your car horn is all coiled up, and why you often see coiled subwoofers. For that matter, it's why brass instruments are coiled rather than being big long bugles. It's the Helmholtz equation again - all it gives a shit about is volume. And now for something completely different... Did he... seriously just throw the word "Alchemy" into the mix like it ain't no thang? Yes. Yes he did. And it only gets more awesome from there. This is a beautiful piece of outsider art. It's all kinds of crazy and great fun to read. It is not, however, particularly rigorous. I'm sure coffeesp00ns could talk more about it, but there's a really great article about equal temperament vs. well temperament that I'd hunt for if I weren't going to bed. There is a lot of argument that can be made for tunings other than A=440 and I find them kinda fascinating but to the best of my knowledge, none of them inject the crystal structure of DNA or the number of stones in Stonehenge. They certainly don't throw your buddy's trip toy in there. Which is kind of a shame. This thing looks awesome. Unfortunately, while they sell all sorts of other groovy shit, they do not appear to sell Cymascopes.Our inner ear for example works on the basis of Phi dampening. The waters of our inner ears rely on Fibonacci spiral dampening through the seashell like structure of the cochlea to keep us feeling balanced, centred or grounded.
This Fibonacci spiral shape helps cancel out certain inertial standing wave interference patterns just like a Helmholtz resonator in order to keep us properly balanced with the natural environment around us.
Some experts maintain that if the cochlea was a straight cone, rather than a tightly-wound spiral, we would have no perception of the octave at all; all we would hear would be a series of successively rising tones.”
DNA in its measurements of 21 by 34 angstroms suggests golden mean or Fibonacci structure. DNA can oscillate to protect itself from dissonant interference patterns of mechanical and electromagnetic waves.
THE ALCHEMY OF SATURN AND 432 ALIGNMENT
Fulcanelli, the mysterious french master alchemist who wrote ‘Le Mystère des Cathédrales’ had this to say about Saturn when he deciphered the planetary cyclic cross at Hendaye: “…Saturn, because it is at the greatest distance from the sun of all the visible planets, has the longest “year,” taking a little less than 30 years to complete one circuit of the zodiac. This makes it the best precessional timekeeper of all the planets.
Definitely some amazing outsider art, and an interesting read Humanity's been messing around with different tunings for hundreds of years (at least, in terms of western "art" music, which is my wheelhouse). We've gone all over the map, from A = 415 to A = 462, both of which are still in occasional use today for early music ensembles (415 being the most popular). I don't know about 432 specifically, but i'm sure it's been tried. I think any difference one might find will be from a lessening of tension on the sounding table of the instrument, and not any other cosmological phenomenon. Fun fact, there's an old law in NY still on the books that defines A as exactly 440 hertz. A bunch of opera singers, having difficulty with the raising of pitch (moving past 442 to even higher) to the point that they were losing roles because the high notes were moving out of reach, lobbied the government to put a law in place. Nevertheless, A still moves around today. Cleveland's at 440, NYPhil is 442, Boston is 441 I think, Toronto and Ottawa are 442. Vienna was 445 for a while, but is now 443-ish. That doesn't even get into the different systems of "well tempered" pitch (the ability to play all keys on one instrument, impossible with "Just" intonation), which are wide-ranging throughout history. Bach wrote "The Well-Tempered Clavier" to promote a well tempered tuning that no longer exists. edit: more cool info about this here:
Have you seen these oscilloscope works by Jerobeam Fenderson? Pure music. Design through sound.
I can do one better - See that tiny display under the huge ones, between the medium ones, above the one with the faders? That's an MSD600M, also known as a "Jellyfish." It's an up-to-8-pole audiospacial meter, useful in surround sound monitoring. Throw it on stereo though and it's a straight up x-y oscilloscope. So pretty much every time I sit down at the computer, I see the above.
The faders also move around'n'shit. It's very intimidating. The blinkenlights are implied. Spendier consoles can be thrown into "vegas mode" to really terrify the natives. As mine are guitar center cheapo crap, all mine do is work. Be sure to stick around for the D-Control. Those things look like they're having a seizure.