- This is perhaps a speculation of why A=440Hz ET and higher concert pitches can be perceived as a brighter, thinner, outward of the head, whereas concert pitch at A=432Hz 12T5 or C=256Hz can be perceived as an inward experience of feeling. Our heart has more morphogenetic fields than the brain and is one of the first things to form in the womb, beating out the soliton pulse of cosmic musical DNA. We feel our emotional bodies from the heart and our solar plexus is the nerve cluster that senses those feelings like a microphone or transducer.
From my own observations, some of the harmonic overtone partials of A=432hz 12T5 appear to line up to natural patterns and also the resonance of solitons. Solitons need a specific range to form into the realm of density and span from the micro to the macro cosmos. Solitons are not only found in water mechanics, but also in the spiral ion-acoustic breath between quarks and protons. The universe depends on the existence of solitons and without them vortex motion would not form.
- Some audiophiles have also reported that A=432Hz music seems to be non local and can appear to fill a room, whereas A=440Hz can perceived as directional or linear in sound propagation.
Whether you believe what it says or not, it's certainly an interesting idea. I'm going to tune my instruments down to A=432 and see if I notice anything different.
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.
Forgo skepticism and read it objectively, embracing the possibility that maybe there's something to it. There may not be anything to it, but there might be. Try for yourself. I tuned my bass and guitar down to 432. I haven't noticed too much of a difference with the bass, but there is a very noticeable difference with guitar. But yes, they should have reconsidered that font.
"Forgo skepticism and read it objectively..." First off, I don't see how reading something objectively means foregoing skepticism. To me, reading something objectively requires skepticism (in general, I realize the word has many connotations). Being skeptic simply means not accepting the truth of something by default, requiring some kind of evidence and some kind of legitimate logic linking that evidence to some conclusion before accepting the truth of the conclusion. I didn't go into the article with the assumption that the conclusion was wrong, I went into the article thinking, "I don't know if this is true." The arguments are simply not good arguments as far as I can tell, they don't hold up to scrutiny. I still have no idea if the conclusion is true, all I know is that the arguments I read don't lead me to believe that the conclusion is true.
That's the state of mind that lets people get roped in by groups like Scientology. Just reading something like this and then trying it for yourself should generally cause any "open minded" person to decide that there is something to it. If you had people read this and then play them any old thing in any old tuning telling them it in 432 I bet a majority of them would say they could tell how different it is.
Yeah, probably. But, if one is remaining as objective as possible, and notices something different, don't they still experience that difference?