Monday, October 30, 2006

This is getting some legs

Being so excited over finding a correlation on my first song I looked at, I did another today and guess what? I'm two for two. Too bad I could never say the same during my little league career.

The song is "Golden Touch" by Razorlight. A British band, that I heard perform at the Live8 concert a while back.

Duration: 201 seconds

Climax: 125 seconds with a nice guitar riff, its very short, but definitely the crescendo of the song.

201 divided by 125 is 1.6080, if this continues to hold true and other hit songs have the same correlation, we could try to start to predict what songs would be hits before they're released as singles. That actually sounds pretty cool and entertaining. What do you think guys?

My First Song

So I'll start off my posts with one of my favorite artists, Ben Folds Five. The song is "Army" off the album "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner."

Duration: 203 seconds

Climax: 126 seconds into the song when a brass section starts that leads into the last verse section of the song.

Therefore, dividing 203 by 126, I get 1.6111. That's close enough to the desired 1.618, I would think!!!

This was actually the first song I even looked at for the golden section, it'll be interesting to see if more songs that I enjoy have this same phenomenon.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Lets get things started

Ok guys, here we go. I created this blog so we can talk about our findings of the Fibonacci sequence in popular music. The Fibonacci sequence (or the golden section) is a math formula that can be applied to music using a simple formula which basically states that the climax of a piece of music occurs 2/3rds of the way through a song. One theory of the sequence states that the most popular items in human culture (whether music, movies, etc.) conform to this sequence. Since we all like different kinds of music, we can compile our findings on this blog and see if there are any relationships between them. How cool would it be if we actually found some connection between different songs, artists, and albums. I don't know how many songs actually correspond to the gold section, but I bet it's more than we think. So lets see where this takes us, hopefully we discover some really cool stuff!

*please note that we originally had this blog on another site and had to move it, so that's why the posts start on October 29th but the comments start on December 18th. *