fernando pessoa remains missing so i lugged harmonic experience over to P's to read on the weekend, spent saturday night reading through with rapt attention as Mr Matthieu took me through how the just intonation scale is constructed from perfect 5ths and major 3rds which in turn are entirely part of the harmonic series, a string vibrates at a frequency, it also vibrates at twice that frequency in two sections, (an octave up), at three times the frequency in three sections (perfect 5th), four times (2 octaves)... five times (major third)....
when i was a teenager i found out that each note on the piano had a frequency, i don't remember exactly what it was that i tried to do but i remember excitedly calculating frequencies... waiting for the numbers to add up as i travelled up the piano, C to shining C... but they didn't add up... i put it down to my mistake in calculation but it's clear these days that on a normal piano the numbers don't add up, equal temperament skewed almost all the notes so that we can modulate between keys at the expense of the pure resonating intervals which would make the numbers work...
anyway, sunday was gorgeous as i went deeper into the theory and P went deeper into reason, partly following some very individual techniques imparted by R the night before... although her and his ways are very different, you have to find your own way in the end... just really nice to be both working in something, together but travelling in different ways in our heads...
this happiness also to do with the tax return nearing it's completion, (at this point almost filled in, to be handed in this afternoon...)...
really nice to have this weight lifted from me, to be in love, to be stimulated by this harmonic thing...
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