I'm in the middle of studying for an accounting exam, but I figured that I'd take alittle study break from projected benefit obligations and off balance sheet transactions and post about a song.
The song is "The Way We Get By" by Spoon. My cousin introduced me to this song and artist at his brother's wedding in late September. I actually flew out to California to attend. Anyway here are the vitals:
Duration: 160 seconds
Climax: 96 seconds, alittle piano slow followed by some drums for your listening pleasure
160 by 96 = 1.6667, to date the furthest away from the 1.618 but still relatively close considering how short the song is. The optimal would have been for the climax to start at 99 seconds, but +/- 3 seconds seems like a decent range for considering if the song has the golden section. Anyone opposed to adopting +/- 3 seconds as the rule?
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It is said that when a piece of music conforms to Fibonacci numbers and/or the golden section, human beings are more inclined to like that song than one that does not. Our goal is to take that statement and see if there is any validity to it by running tests on the most popular songs from different years. We want to see if we can find any relationships between past "hits" and Fibonacci numbers, and eventually want to see if we can determine chart toppers by whether or not they subscribe to Fibonacci. Here is how to help us out...
The main Fibonacci numbers are:
1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144,233,377,610,987. When a piece of music has a duration of one of these numbers and a dramatic instrumental element at another, it is said to be a Fibonacci song. For example, if "Born in the USA" by Springsteen is 377 seconds long and the instrumental climax appears at 144 seconds into the song, it is considered to be a Fibonacci piece of music.
Calculating the golden section is a little bit different. First, pick a song and find the duration of that song in seconds. Next, find the instrumental climax of the song and divide the duration by the dramatic element. If the ratio is 1.619 or something very close to that, it is said to be a golden section song. For example, if "One Way Out" by the Allman Brothers is 420 seconds long and the dramatic element appears at 260 seconds into it, you would get: 420/260 = 1.615 making it close enough to be a golden section song!
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2 comments:
we should definitely have that rule. we're not going to find that many songs EXACTLY at 1.618.
i would say that is fine. i think the general point here is that many hit songs in general conform to this rule, not that they exactly work out to 1.618. Later on down the line, if we do find enough popular songs fitting this rule, we should also look at songs that didnt do so well, to see if a different percentage of hits conform to the rule.
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