The "cycle of fifths" is actually a spiral, because when you start with a frequency and go to its third-harmonic, and its third harmonic, in-turn until you go around in third-harmonic leaps covering all 12 notes of the western scale, when you return to the note you started with, it turns out there's a gap … Continue reading Music based on the 3 and 5
Category: harmonic propagation
Mandelbrot Music
Stop the presses. A while ago, I figured it would make an amazing fractal if we could feed the equation for harmonic propagation into a fractal programme - because as we know, when harmonics propagate, the gap between your starting frequency and your ending frequency is always a harmonic of your starting frequency. Well, I … Continue reading Mandelbrot Music