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·2 yıl önce·discuss
What a marvelous article about intonation and temperament. It is one of those expositions that approach perfection in conveying the subject matter. I am no music theorist but rather an engineer with an appreciation for all things wave- or signal-oriented. I will want to read it multiple times to savor the explanations. The author's album based on just intonation is linked in the article ("A Walk Through The Ambient Garden") and I highly recommend it: it is a mesmerizing composition.
rob7cc
·2 yıl önce·discuss
The water spheres look small but here's a fun back-of-the-envelope computation. The article states there is 22.3k mi^3 of water in lakes and rivers. One person in the USA (a high consumer) consumes 82 gallons of water every day (source: epa.gov) which is 7.4E-11 mi^3. Let's say each person does this for a long-lived 100 years, giving 7.4E-9 mi^3 per lifetime. So the 22.3k mi^3 of lake and river water can support 3 trillion lifetimes. That's not including the much larger amounts of ground water and ocean water. Those "small spheres" are huge!