Tuesday, February 27, 2007

What a Wonderful World

For the first time I've been disappointed by Rod.

The original "What a Wonderful World" done by Louis Armstrong is one that just about everyone loves to poorly sing along to.

His version is 139 seconds long. There's the one verse where he sings higher, and i used the midpoint of that as the climax. it happened to be at 80 seconds in

139/80= 1.73...ehh, not good enough. (however, if you use the end of the verse, the ratio becomes 1.63, but i honestly didnt feel the end was any more special than the whole verse)

When I saw that Rod's version was long I figured I would definately find a golden section song. Especially after listening to it, I felt there would be something. It basically is the regular song, then a sax solo then some more singing. Unfortunately tho, the total length was 270 seconds and the midpoint of the sax solo was 133 seconds in, so...

270/133 = 2.03, nowhere near the golden section.

No Fibonacci numbers on either version here either.

That's okay Rod, you're allowed one every now and then.

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