Post #2299474
2024-05-03 01:27 UTC
@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz @lily@glaceon.social see this would only somewhat work if 2x the font size had some significant meaning. like 2x the frequency does, but 2x the font size doesn't really? and it would work better if there were harmonics and beats between specific intervals but there aren't either? like it's not even a good analogy
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@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz 2024-05-03 08:28
@astrid@fedi.astrid.tech @lily@glaceon.social it really isn't. Not least because they'll never get to the ×2 interval because their minor third isn't ⁴√2, it's 1.2, so stacking four of them will give you ×2.0736. And one of their favourite intervals is ϕ — the whole point of musical intervals is to be (or approximate) neat, simple ratios and the whole point of ϕ is to be as far away from any of those as it can. It's arguably the most violent possible discord you can produce with two notes. It's not just a pointless analogy, it's actually *fighting* them.