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Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the research-into-art dept.

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. "

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  1. Re:Tool has some fibonaaci stuff by Aaryn · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :)

  2. nothing new.... by p3t0r · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  3. This is not news. Bach did it back in the day. by sonatinas · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Or Pi? by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    Is it anything like the pi song? Threeeee point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three...

  5. Fibonacci, Algorithmic, Stochastic, Aleatoric Comp by mechanyx · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.