Re: [tuning] Re: visualizing harmony, and 'music of the spheres'

Paul Erlich wrote:

> --- In tuning@egroups.com, " Monz" <MONZ@J...> wrote:
>
> > Because of the 'speed of light' speed-limit on our perception,
> > time seems to be 1-dimensional, whereas space has 3 dimensions.
> > I suggest that time too may be multi-dimensional, but we're
> > still a long way from being able to observe it that way.
>
> The most promising candidate for a unified physical theory, M-theory
> (formerly string theory), posits 10 spatial dimensions (6 curled up
> real tight and 1 limited to a small finite distance, leaving the 3
> familiar "extended" ones) and 1 time dimension. In his fine popular
> account of the theory, _The Elegant Universe_, Brian Greene mentions
> the idea of multiple time dimensions, but implies that as yet no
> physicist has come up with a coherent conception of what that would
> even mean. So let alone the question of being able to observe time as
> multi-dimensional, we are still probably a long way from even being
> able to conceive of it that way.
>
> But what does this have to do with tuning?
>

The string theory has to do with the smallest microphysical units and would theoretically
provide the researcher with the "seat of the soul" or the smallest possible unit consciousness
can reside in. One should find the interface of subjective perception of the musical intervals
and the actual intervals themselves. I mean, that since it is the smallest possible unit of
matter possible, we would see the interface of physical divisions of the octave with the
subjective perception of them (quantum wave thoughts/music apperception at the quantum wave
level----the two should be identical at the smallest level due to the univesality of Bode's Law
on wave motion including "love" vibes. "Vibes" are waves, too). Because very few musicians
have perfect microtonal pitch or absolute microtonal pitch currently, if this research was to
hurry up and write up the equations for everyone to see then someone could figure out the best
possible microtonal scale and then the best possible and most versatile divisions of them.
This Unified Microtonal Scale should be characterized by simplicity yet universality. This is
also foolish because the symmetrical keyboard and something like The Microzone Keyboard are
giving people more useful access to microtones and soon enough the natural human ear will pick
up on the needed ordering of the microtonal divisions. Either some mathematician is going to
stumble upon it or some musician is going to figure out which is the best universal microtonal
scale.
10 strings is useful for the quantum particles and they are based on threefold groups.
The quarks I mean. So I think that the Universal Microtonal scale would have to divide things
by threes. This is the case in the 72 tone ideal Pythagorean scale, except that they add a
positive 3 and a negative 3 which is a Babylonian practice as old as the Hurrian tablets (they
used this for their astronomical divisions of the sky). But then I am an avid 23 tone user and
72 tones doesn't accomodate it neatly enough so I doubt 72 tones is the proper division. Maybe
something like hybrid scales....I tune two different 23 tone scales at a perfect 5th apart or a
perfect 4th apart. Then these are accessed by two different keyboards stacked on each other.
Hybrid scales could easily be facilitated by the Microzone keyboard.

I think this conjecturing is hopeless for now because I don't have a working keyboard to
aurally test these things. I've never even heard the 72 tone scale. I just got it out of some
books on astronomy and mystical geometry.

Remember the movie "Rainman"? With Dustin Hoffman's unique autistic counting ability? We need
a geometer like Monz or the Anaphorian guy with a natural microtonal ear (absolutely perfect
pitch). Someone like that could get all these theories straight and then we'd have a universal
notation and then some of us less talented could start making tone rows and really start to
explore this stuff. I bet you China already had this Universal Microtonal Scale and that's
what was lost with the burning of the Sixth Wing or Chinese classic and it's also possible that
one of the experts here have also stumbled on it and are about to tell me to go to a URL where
I will see charts and graphs of it. I hope so.

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