No no, I'm saying that if you consider the 12 tones of our standard music system to be integers, in between each of those integers there lies an Infinity of fractions. But no matter how close together those fractions may be there's always an Infinity of fractions that lay between those. In terms of actual sound and frequency there is always another note.
Check out Asimov's Varieties of the Infinite, an essay on transfinite numbers.

 

Hey Foster, did your mom have any kids that actually lived?

 

so fractal music theory i guess. if i remember correctly all fractals are created out of a number between 2 and 3, using recurrsion to cause reiteration of a world between numbers. been a couple decades, but I used to love to run fractal software and create images and videos, have to dig for those one of these days..

if you could link fractal software to cymatics, it might produce either interesting videos or interesting music, or both

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the geometric patterns in the intro (about 60 seconds) aren't fractals, just polygonal shapes rotated and dissolved into each other..then the fun begins...

 

Truest post. Thanks for writing it.

It has to do with the state of man. The human condition. Mankind is sick. And it often sings and writes about that. But there is a state when the sickness gets to advanced in stage, that whatever one produces can not longer be of high quality, because they are simply not capable any more. This sickness is internal. And music is an expression of the unsaid internal which even words cannot capture.

Of course I am speaking generally. And there is such a thing as the music industry which no longer acts as a promoter of good music that is out there to be found among the people, but as its gatekeeper, and a promoter of a certain sickly kind of sound, concept, and world. This has a reverse effect - in that humankind is absorptive, everyone absorbs the environment in which they are immersed within. And then they re-emit what they have absorbed. Therefore if darkness and sickness is promoted in society at large, a cycle begins which is hard to stop. Where the same kind of darkness and sickness permeates and perpetuates in that civilization. Music is just one aspect of a civilization, one expression of it. So it's not so much that music is dead - it's that people are dead, or not as alive as they ought to be.

The issue is spiritual, mental and emotional - in that order!
That's the root, or the cause. Music, being an expression is the effect.

Just as people have completely confused love and sex and no longer know which ought to come first, the same is exemplified in other areas of modern world society. The issue is fundamental to mankind's identity, a subject which goes far beyond music. Music is like sex, it's supposed to be an expression of an already present and committed love. Not as the first and only act. An expression of a thing comes after the thing, but the root thing must already be present in order to be able to express it. You can't have a cherry on a cake if the entire cake is missing. It's the cake which is the substance, not the cherry on top.

So you can't fix music with gimmicks - which is exactly what mankind will try and try and try - and fail. Technology is merely a tool. But whoever saw a hammer making a house all by itself? Whoever saw a synthesizer making an amazing album? (And even if AI one day writes an amazing album, all by itself, WHO CARES! It wasn't made by a human being!!!).

This is why the advance of technology means absolutely nothing if the one utilizing that technology, mankind, itself does not also advance - not in terms of intelligence, because that has never really been the problem. Education with true and accurate information has been the problem. But the real problem is man's soul and spirit. A brokenness lay in there that makes all the difference in the universe. And from there it is that both love and music come. If that part of man is too sick, only darkness will come forth and pour more darkness into the world, so that the entire world will be filled with nothing but that which destroys.

People will try to find the solution in endless ways, they will try every false way they can imagine and not find the solution to the problem. Because as long as you avoid addressing the root cause, you will be like a hamster in a wheel, or like a an animal in the middle of a forest fire. Afterwards, only carcasses shall be found.

Deterioration is slow, gradual, so that most get accustomed to it. And forget that it may have been a smidge better in times past. Some rationalize it away as if everything always was the same. They do not see clearly and are placating themselves.

If you want your music to improve, improve yourself! Grow and mature in every way possible and stay clear of evil, commit it not and don't follow it - that's how you will pollute yourself, until the sickness consumes you - but not prior to promising you vain and empty riches. Your love, your music, will fail because you have allowed yourself to become polluted and discouraged. Therefore do not defile your love, keep YOURSELF pure, for from there comes the music.

Music is a form of expression that influences the listener. What are you truly saying and influencing yourself, others and the world by?