The music guy from InterferenceTheory.com

[TheMusicGuy]

I happened across this site while browsing my first ever google search on my website interferencetheory.com. There was a lively discussion about the ideas presented on my site, which I found interesting, so I signed up here.

 

I thought I might introduce myself by clarifying a few points about my book and site.

 

First, I should say that I don't claim a secret Catholic conspiracy to control music as was pointed out in a forum here. Rather, I claim the control of music and harmonic theory was and still is a central part of Church doctrine and well documented in canon law and historical records. Long before Christianity, music and harmonic theory had been central to the development of religion and social organization and was commonly "purified" in an attempt to fix entonation in a curved pitch space. This practice reached it's apex in the Catholic Church (Catholic is from the Greek word katharsoi, to purify). It was an accepted practice of the Church to control the harmonies acceptable inside a sanctuary, passing canonical laws in 1234 AD known as the Liber Extra. While this seems harmless enough, the practice naturally suppressed some intervals in favor of others, promulgating a decidedly manmade and unnatural view of music and harmonic principles in nature. The same thing happened with the suppression of pagan heliocentric cosmology, causing Galileo no small amount of grief.

 

This practice is more significant than one might first think or want to admit. Science developed under duress of this purification doctrine, causing harmonic principles to be avoided during the Enlightenment to appease the Church. A natural and pragmatic reaction to a powerful multinational regime I'm sure. But unfortunately, this religious purification and scientific avoidance strategy has created a Western science and academia that is in denial that nature self-organizes harmonically. The smarter you are, the less you want to admit that most things can be explained using simple musical terms. A beautiful truth indeed and one central to the Tao, but not much money or prestige in it for aspiring scientists.

 

This is the subject of my book and site - to show how nature and all living things self-organize according to simple harmonic principles. Rather than focusing on religion, perhaps it would be more fun to discuss something really controversial, like Darwinian evolution. Is evolution strictly a matter of random mutation and natural selection or is it guided by a preexisting and inevitable resonance patterning process intrinsic to water and carbon bonding? Could we actually be a kind of atomic music?

[Birch]

hello!

 

 

I looked through your site already and it and the book seems interesting. There was another member here who was heavily into all that stuff (Drew Hempel) but who has disappeared.

 

I was just reading a neat post about the non-duality of Tao in stillness-motion and Fibonnaci sequence. Another of my music-related favourites is Daniel Levitin.

 

I'm bad at math and at music but love jazz. Ever read any about where the term "jazz" originated?

 

I really don't know what "we" are but I like to think we're a whole organism in concert with the earth and the cosmos. I like to think (and practice) a type of singing myself into existence sometimes. When I feel my energetic "signature" is on the "wrong" frequency (I guess it's more of a gestalt) I make an effort to change it into something more pleasant/harmonious.

 

I wonder what's up with our music today. There's something that feels "icky" with the tones and the sugary rhythms. I get past the lyrics (often violent) it seems like children's tunes I heard when I was a kid.

 

Welcome to TTB's Mr Music Guy!

[Brian]

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[TheMusicGuy]

hello!

 

 

I looked through your site already and it and the book seems interesting. There was another member here who was heavily into all that stuff (Drew Hempel) but who has disappeared.

 

I was just reading a neat post about the non-duality of Tao in stillness-motion and Fibonnaci sequence. Another of my music-related favourites is Daniel Levitin.

 

I'm bad at math and at music but love jazz. Ever read any about where the term "jazz" originated?

 

I really don't know what "we" are but I like to think we're a whole organism in concert with the earth and the cosmos. I like to think (and practice) a type of singing myself into existence sometimes. When I feel my energetic "signature" is on the "wrong" frequency (I guess it's more of a gestalt) I make an effort to change it into something more pleasant/harmonious.

 

I wonder what's up with our music today. There's something that feels "icky" with the tones and the sugary rhythms. I get past the lyrics (often violent) it seems like children's tunes I heard when I was a kid.

 

Welcome to TTB's Mr Music Guy!

 

Thanks for the welcome. To your question, the term Jazz originated in the word Jasmine, the French perfume worn by the working women in New Orleans bordellos at the turn of the 20th century. This was where jazz got started, designed to induce feelings of sensuality. There was an influx of all things French into New Orleans at that time, including classically trained piano players from Europe bringing with them the latest chromatic harmonies. This is why the French embraced jazz early on - it was harmonically romantic and even impressionist at times, becoming more polychordal in time.

 

I agree about much of the pop music today being negative in tone. If it's not outright hostile, it's at least cynical. Not like the naively happy music of the 60s. This said, there is still good solid music to be found if you look hard.

 

Muisc is more than sound. It is a model of coherence that entrains our thinking and worldview. It is persuasion and at the center of perception.

[Birch]

"Muisc is more than sound. It is a model of coherence that entrains our thinking and worldview. It is persuasion and at the center of perception."

 

Can we move this one to the main forum? I hate being in the lobby for some reason

[trailmaker]

Right on...