Noidypoos on 12/1/2008 at 14:38
Quote Posted by 37637598
You know the earth resonates at approx. 6 octaves below "LOW C" on a standard 88 key piano (or 7.83Hz. with the highest recorded frequency being 45Hz) and this resonance has a massive impact on the growth of plant life, and with the rate of the earth resonance increasing through the years it makes me wonder what kind of changes we'll see throughout the next few generations...
Everything throughout the universe has a resonating frequency, and as well everything is affected by vibrations. Human's bones grow at a certain rate according to the projected frequency of the earth, and this is how they develop a resonating frequency. There is an experiment that you can do to find out the resonating frequency of your cranium. Use an instrument such as a xylophone, or piano, Hit every key from bottom to top, which ever key sounds the loudest it tuned to the resonating frequency of your cranium. There will also be half-tones that sound louder, though they might not be the loudest.
I suppose this is why the key of C is the most commonly used key for simple songs and children's songs. If the earth is generating a frequency at C 6 octaves below low C on a piano, then perhaps our bones grow to this frequency so whenever the specific frequency is projected through our bodies, our bones react and vibrate comfortably giving us the feeling that this specific frequency of tone is the best to use in songs, or we simply just grow a liking to it.
Similarly with trees, when the specific frequency is generated and projected through them, they react and resonate causing them to grow easier making a taller tree. Well I don't know how accurate this is... it's just based on old memory...
As far as a tree generating sound its self, I would assume that anything that moves to grow would generate a frequency. Obviously it would be WAY too low of a frequency to be audible to the human ear, but if we could measure the growth of the tree and maybe compare it with the earth generated frequency to see how the earth has affected its growth, that might help us to determine the frequency of which the tree generates.
Actually reading over that last paragraph makes me realize that it would be nothing like that... To measure the generated frequency we would have to understand how the earth forms a resonating frequency into something growing. Obviously not EVERYTHING has the same resonating frequency, so there must be a system that we do not understand. If we could understand this, we could better determine what frequency a growing plant might generate in relation to its resonance.
I don't know if any of that made sense, I'm trying to type while listening to my brother play a loud on the guitar and singing and it makes it hard to concentrate. "Through the Fire and Flames - Dragon Force"
Jesus christ you are so misinformed it hurts
The vibrational modes of atoms and subatomic particles that make up your skull have no effect on the differing levels of loudness you perceive over the frequency spectrum.
Resonation and subsequent enforcement of certain frequencies is down to whether the sound in question has a strong enough single harmonic that is supported by the structure of your head - i.e. a part of your head that supports a full wavelength. An idealised example of this is blowing over a tube - it will produce a note at a base frequency determined by its length.
Anyone who talks about things supporting particular resonances because the structure itself "resonates" at a particular frequency is barking up the wrong tree.
Fingernail on 13/1/2008 at 15:37
Not to mention that you'd need a completely acoustically neutral environment to ever test that, otherwise it might simply be the shape and materials in the room emphasising certain frequencies more than others.
Of course, there are traditional key-relationships that composers in the western classical tradition used to employ; Eb major being heroic, etc. But I don't think that has to do with resonance so much as older tuning systems before equal temperament.
PigLick on 14/1/2008 at 00:43
Eb is heroic eh? any other key emotes?
is Dmin, as Nigel Tufnell once said, the saddest of all keys?
Aja on 14/1/2008 at 07:15
F# is totally gay
Lambda on 14/1/2008 at 20:57
Quote Posted by frozenman
(
http://tones.wolfram.com/)
Here's something that might be extremely interesting - I've yet to have a chance to really explore it, but it's in a similar vein to the musicalalgorithms.ewu.edu link you provided demagogue.
This one generates music based on computational models of cellular automata. The computer I'm on is shit, so I can't listen to them unless I have them sent to my cellphone (which is really cool).
Thanks for the great link! :)
37637598 on 14/1/2008 at 23:34
That's what I said!
*shrinks into chair*
demagogue on 15/1/2008 at 03:11
Quote Posted by PigLick
any other key emotes?
(
http://www.gradfree.com/kevin/some_theory_on_musical_keys.htm) Survey says
I think this list is seriously dated, though ... people think about emotions differently now than 200 years ago. (Also, looks a little suspiciously not much more than: happiness, sadness, another kind of happiness, another kind of sadness, yet another kind of happiness...)
I also feel like keys have different attitudes in different genres or instruments.
Also, I've heard it mentioned, and I sometimes feel, that sometimes even the same key can feel different depending on its context, e.g., C# feels different than Db, and what rhythm and tempo it's in, the kinds of chord progressions it's playing with, etc.
PigLick on 15/1/2008 at 11:10
you know, though this is off topic really, it is a fucking interesting subject for discussion
for example, the C# vs Db you mentioned is totally true, to me things in C# sound different than Db, even though the notes are technically the same. An even more pertinant example would be the minor of those two keys, C# minor being a widely used minor key, vs Db minor which is like 'wtf', at least to a guitarist hahaha.
Fingernail on 15/1/2008 at 11:16
yeah but guitarists don't like flat keys in general. They ain't no good.
I suppose the design and tuning of instruments comes into play - although piano sounds the same in any key, the hands are quite comfortable hitting a lot of black notes, but on guitar Eb minor would be quite an awkward key in some circumstances, unless you retune. So E minor has a sort of characteristic richness on guitar because of all the sympathetic open strings - E, A, G, B and E are all part of the key.
EDIT: also whilst I'm here: (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88lNwSxid4)
PigLick on 15/1/2008 at 11:22
On the guitar i think it has also to do with the positioning, as far as standrad tuning goes anyway. C minor blues on the 8th fret is just like the 'meat' of the guitar, that classic position. Well thats an example anyway. You can mostly tell what key a lot of rock songs are in just because of the way they sound.
