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Walter Murch is a genius.
Author: p on March 10 2008 Viewed 1962 times. 15 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I was reading up on some of my favorite sound designers and found a very interesting interview of Walter Murch (a genious in film sound who did the badass montages in thx1138 among other things).
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It starts out talking about copernicuse's helliocentric rendering of the universe then goes into bodes (titius's) law (the one that correctly guessed planets orbits)
but here's the interesting part...
BLDGBLOG: The “music of the spheres” is perhaps an inevitable metaphor to use here – but I’m curious if you have actually found a real, numerical correspondence between the structure of Western music and the orbits of the planets, or if it's just a convenient metaphor.
Murch: That’s one of the startling things about this. If I wrote the simplified Bode formula down on a piece of paper and showed it to music theorists, they would ask: “Why are you showing us a formula from the overtone series…?”
In other words, Bode’s Law gives a series of orbital ratios which are mathematically identical to intervals in musical theory. They’re primarily variations on what we call the 7th chord: C, E, G, B-flat. Bode’s predicted ratio between Earth and Mars, for instance, is the same as the 5:8 musical ratio between E and C. And if you divide the distances, in kilometers, of the four Galilean moons by a common denominator you get the notes Ab, E, C, Bb. And so on.
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tantan
read the Murch / Ondaatje interviews book, fucking amazing.
The Conversation still kills me. Incredible creativity in the sound design work.
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mixedtape
Whoa. My mind is blown already and I just skimmed.
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p
I'll have to check that out. His interest seem to lie all over the amp like mine.
Also I'll have to watch the conversation again....It's been awhile and I think I'd appreciate it more now.
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celibacyclub
interesting
i just finished a little synth wank with c e & g b a few minutes ago
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tantan
also, bode's law is utterly mind-humping
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hteah
cool info...thanx
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kidko
I'll have to get that interviews book, sounds rad.
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ricemutt
hah, this looks great, checking it out
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