JillsWingsOfLight May 25 2014
Microtones, such as the ones created by our DNA, are hard to produce on our musical instruments and sound strange. It was difficult to make music from these ‘random’ sounds – with no seeming order. However, something very interesting began to happen to the musical DNA team. After weeks and weeks of experimenting with different sound combinations, they noticed that one pitch seemed to create coherency, a kind of a C#, common to all the DNA bases:
- Adenine: 545.6 Hz
- Guanine: 550
- Average Hz = 544.2
- Thymine: 543.4
- Cytosine: 537.8
(Most pianos are tuned to around 554 for C#.)
The pitch that showed up most frequently was F#. It is found no less than three times in each base collection. But instead it is its fifth, the C#, that acted as the organizing force. The first DNA CD, Sequencia, was written for tabla, a tuned drum, tuned to C#. The drum keeps a steady rhythm. While the synthesizer plays repeating patterns, the instruments- violin, cello and voice – revolve harmonically around the C#.
By comparing all 60 pitches one can find all of the precise ratios found in the first 16 harmonics of the overtone series: octaves, Perfect 5th, Perfect 4ths, Major and minor thirds, Major and minor 2nds and 7ths; even a ‘flat’ seventh. Mathematically, the odds of this happening at random are almost non-existent.
Randy Masters of Aptos, California, is trying to discover a fundamental that could possibly be generating all of the DNA frequencies as overtones. This finding would be invaluable to all those involved in sound and the healing arts as well as scientists, and artists.
I ordered the Sequentia DNA CD and enjoyed the strangely familar sounds of DNA….I hope you get try the same journey and find it delightful! Susan Alexander at www.oursounduniverse.com