The Harmonic Series, Intonation, Temperament, Tuning, Scales, Intervals, Pitches, Tones & Timbre

Wavelengths, Frequencies, Sound, Light & Color, the Electromagnetic Spectrum & the Mathematics of Music

The Physical Nature of Sound

Mathematics and Music have a rich and complex history. COMING SOON, we’ll look at Ernest McClain’s amazing work linking musical scales to ancient mythological symbol systems from Egypt, Babylonia, and Greece. 

IBM 1401, A User’s Manual

 ALSO IN THE WORKS - Dane Rudhyar’s astrological interpretation of the mathematics of music, classical music systems of India, China, Indonesia and the more familiar scales and rhythms of the West, past, present and future.

Like music, color has a long history of theoretical, creative and practical applications concerning its effect on our emotions, as well as on our physical and spiritual well-being. In the Music and Color section of the Science of Sound, we’ll look at approaches from painters like Wassily Kandinsky who drew on music for developing his theories of color, and from musicians like Alexander Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shoenberg, and others who experimented with color-tonal associations.

Goethe’s Experiments with Color

 TIMELINE of COLOR & MUSIC

For starters, check out Fred Collopy’s RhythmicLight website. He has assembled a very interesting TIMELINE charting the history of applications for Color and Music going as far back as the 18th century and extending right up to today.

http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/timeline.html

and while you’re there, check out the Galleries section - very nice work.

Synesthesia

Some people “hear” color and “see” sound, the synesthesist movement in art and music, a precursor to the notion of ‘multi-media’.

Auditory Hallucinations

Muses, Madmen and Prophets; why does “hearing voices” mark some people as crazy, and catapult others to greatness?

This is Your Brain on Music

Psychoacoustics, the neuroscience of music and the brain/mind.

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