The tax attorney ambles in and sneezes on the blooms.Her client’s huge dispensary is dank with earthy fumes,but not a smoker to be found in any of the rooms. She’s late for her appointment; where’s the paperwork she’ll need?The pin-striped suited Hatter sits encrusted in his greed.He’s seeking tax avoidance for his fact’ry farm of…
Month: August 2021
A chat about The Next Octave’s discovery on the Ghosts of Bacon podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzg8RDiTZXI
The harmonic series prefers 432 Hz
The harmonic series contains 16 usable notes (notes with large enough intervals that we can distinguish them) in its chromatic scale. Of those 16 notes, each one generates its own scale. This graphic shows the list of frequencies that each note generates within its own scale for A4. Note that nowhere in the harmonic series…
Dissonance in Kubrick’s last film
In Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Bill Harford is unmasked before the secret society while three notes are ominously struck on the piano. First we hear an oscillation between F and F#, followed by a dissonant and repeated high G. In The Next Octave, we track these notes in the harmonic series and uncover some startling…
“We were in all, (sick and whole,) one and fifty persons, whereof our sick were seventeen.“
In Chapter 13 of The Next Octave, we delve into the coded messages of Francis Bacon. This chapter, entitled “An alchemical wedding of tones” is a fascinating look at Bacon’s hints regarding the harmonic series.
The Next Octave is now available!
Click here to visit the Amazon ordering page. Music and money share an immutable connection. Both systems, encoded with mathematical ratios of creative tension, have the power to produce both harmony and dissonance. Over the centuries, governing philosophies tempering both music and money have created two systems of fiat notes, the values of which have…