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Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market
Gary Franczyk writes "A band named Emerald Suspension has made an album named Playing the Market that is, as they put it: "structured based on patterns created by the stock market, economic indicators, algorithms". They have some songs based off of the Fibonacci sequence, the misery and consumer confidence indices, and the national debt. "
From that movie, for those wondering. I was it a few weeks ago, when I saw the title that was exactly my thoughts.
It was one of the first tracks I DJ'd with - 132 bpm of mathematicly perfecty breakbeat.
Black (1)
:)
then (1)
white are (2)
all I see (3)
in my infancy (5)
red and yellow then came to be (8)
reaching out to me (5)
makes me see (3)
there is (2)
The syllables = fibonnaci
Looks a bit like a crescendo to me NYSE 1-year history.
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I thought the recent competition to make music based on the sounds of failing hard drives was a lot more fun. The competition was won by a song that was made entirely out of dying harddrive sound samples.
Throughout the ages many composers (J.S. Bach/Schubert/Bartok), have used the fibonacci numbers in their works: http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Knott/Fibon acci/fibInArt.html#music
Many contemporary composers like Ligeti and Chowning use mathmatical formulas like the fibonacci number as well.
So, how is this news... most students in music are supposed to have remembered this from their classes ;)
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If you studied music seriously you would know Bach used Fibonacci in many of his pieces. Most notable the Well Tempered Clavier, Composers have been using it for hundred of years.
[FIBONACCI!]
It was an action flick.
Pan-Man kicked backwards
attackers
sent by the sexy matadortress
from her Spanish fortress.
[Of course, the film was torturous!]
Lloyd Kaufman's masterpiece
achieving wide release.
Logos in the marquees
said 'Pac-Man', with the C's
rotated ninety degrees.
Troma
had a premiere at the MOMA.
Poloma
wore her signature aroma.
Yo-Yo Ma
said 'Nihoma!'
and had Pan's Evergreen diploma
shown to Williams and Sonoma!
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Is it anything like the pi song? Threeeee point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three...
PS You can get similar effects on a Linux box by catting various files to /dev/audio; /dev/hd0 or /dev/random for instance. Here's a good reference. I actually tried piping the mouse to audio once and got something like the results described; I was on the verge of recording some "mouseophone" music when I think I got bored and went on to something else.
Fibonacci relations abound in art and music. This is nothing new. A text that discusses this in some length with regards to the famous Hungarian composer Bela Bartok is Erno Lendvai's Bela Bartok: An Analysis of His Music. Lendvai makes a very compelling case even though Bartok never explicitly stated on record his use of such devices. It should be noted that Bartok was a pantheist so that might explain some of his desire to use patterns in nature.
Algorithmic composition has been around for quite some time but really took off with the advent of "computer music". Different motivations exist for algorithmic composition but they are interesting. Unfortunately, these motivations are often more interesting than the resultant music IMO. A good environment to quickly do algorithmic composition in is the Common Lisp/Common Music environment as a front end to Csound.
Stochastic composition was invented by Iannis Xenakis. He used probabilistic densitiesm modeled after physical phenomena such as diffusion of gases to compose some of his works. His rather difficult to digest text Formalized Music discusses his methods.
John Cage pioneered aleatoric composition in which he used chance to make compositional choices. It was largely a reaction to the fact that so-called integral serialism, a highly deterministic system of total control, yielded works that were so difficult for most people to comprehend that they essentially sounded random.
The band discussed here really isn't doing anything new. If they do it extremely well though, then more power to them but I leave that judgement up to the individual listener.
Bartok constantly used references to the Fibonacci series in his music. In the first movement of Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste, the bar numbers are marked in the score according to the numbers of this sequence (8 13 21 34 55), and if I remember correctly, there are 89 bars in the piece. Also, a movement in his fourth string quartet contains 2584 beats.
Bartok wasn't the first composer to conciously use the Finonacci series...I believe Debussy made extensive use of it, and it's found all the time in the Javanese Gamelan music of Indonesia.
What separates Bartok, Debussy and Javanese Gamlelan apart from the TFA is that their music is actually good. Mod me down all you want, but I'll never respect music created by some idiot at a computer who punches in a couple of notes, hits play and then decides if he likes it.
But that's just me...