And here I thought they were just being random and artsy.. pretty scientific..
Fibonacci Sequence to Music
Fibonacci Sequence to Music
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Interesting take on Tool..
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Yeah, apparently there are different storylines depending on how you listen to the album relating to the Fibonacci Sequence
i'm unconvinced that that is intentional.
cool video, but the fibonacci sequence is overrated, imo, and the worship of it seems to hearken to numerology.
tangential: i don't understand why people associate the number of chromosomes with the degree of sophistication of a species ("46&2"). potatoes have 48 chromosomes, yet the best thing that they've ever done is turn into french fries.
i'm unconvinced that that is intentional.
cool video, but the fibonacci sequence is overrated, imo, and the worship of it seems to hearken to numerology.
tangential: i don't understand why people associate the number of chromosomes with the degree of sophistication of a species ("46&2"). potatoes have 48 chromosomes, yet the best thing that they've ever done is turn into french fries.
I've read a few comments from the band members themselves about the Fibonacci sequence as it relates to Lateralus, it was intentional. Not that impressive, IMO, and I like the band a lot, but it was intentional.
As for Forty Six & 2, the number of chromosones doesn't necessarily designate the level of intelligence of a species, Maynard speaks about it because it's the next evolutionary step for humans, basically, we're at Forty Four & 2 right now.
i was commenting about the playlist. the number of syllables in the verse to lateralus definitely seems intentional.
How disapointing, I thought this was going to be a thread about Morf!
oh man ... you just keep getting funnier and funnier .
How disapointing, I thought this was going to be a thread about Morf!
You want me to explain why you're such a tool in detail? Well I was getting a little bored with you but I can make an exception if you say please
Funny you should be the one saying that headbanger.
And I'm not crapping on anything.
I think Tool's greatest joke is that they have inadvertently duped all kinds of people into believing more conspiracy theories about their music than they themselves ever thought possible. Maynard himself has alluded to the fact that people will find what they are looking for in their music, whether it is there or not is an entirely different situation.
Tool has been my absolute favourite band since 1994, so don't think that I am bashing them. The Grudge is quite possibly the most important song I've heard in my life, I literally went blind for a few seconds the first time I heard it, because I was so overwhelmed. So yeah, I find what I am looking for as well I suppose.
Tool has been my absolute favourite band since 1994, so don't think that I am bashing them. The Grudge is quite possibly the most important song I've heard in my life, I literally went blind for a few seconds the first time I heard it, because I was so overwhelmed. So yeah, I find what I am looking for as well I suppose.
I agree with nad. While the lateralus thing definitely was intentional, as well as the whole fibonacci ordering of their album, people do take some of it too far.
I've heard of the Fibonacci ratio before in construction. An audiophile I know built his entertainment room to its porportions. Room size, speaker placement, screen size, everything. Even the shelves that held his components were cut to the 1-1.618 ratio. Tell ya what, stuff sounded AWESOME down there. I just went looking through the linked Youtube videos after watching that video, and they had a writer from Wood Magazine showing how the ratio was used in the construction of the Parthenon, and its other applications, even furniture building. And I dig it.
I'm gonna go rip Lateralus to my computer and sort the songs in the order this guy described. I wanna see if I do notice anything listening to it that way.
I'm gonna go rip Lateralus to my computer and sort the songs in the order this guy described. I wanna see if I do notice anything listening to it that way.
