Fibonacci spiral house in Blackdown Hills, Devon, England

[Sylvain Cote]

A came across this while searching for other thing.
The house was designed around the Fibonacci spiral pattern, very interesting.
Youtube: Kevin McCloud - Blackdown Hills, Devon: Snake House

[pinkman]

Damned! I’m in love with Fibonacci but I did not follow the spiral shape when designing my house.
Regrets...

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(08-26-2020 08:43 PM)pinkman Wrote:  Damned! I’m in love with Fibonacci but I did not follow the spiral shape when designing my house.
Regrets...

[pinkman]

And I don’t even respect the Golden ratio in the music I listen to or compose!
(See https://youtu.be/9mozmHgg9Sk)

[Sylvain Cote]

(08-26-2020 09:32 PM)pinkman Wrote:  And I don’t even respect the Golden ratio in the music I listen to or compose!

Nice find, also very interesting. Thanks!

[pinkman]

Well in fact I don’t know.

I’ve tried to find interesting Fibonacci in music, classical or not, but it is not an evidence that nice pieces, modern or older, follow these rules.
Number of bars ? According to some analysts Mozart did, but it is not always the case and it could be pure coincidence, because construction of music is made of repetition of themes. And repeating is adding, no miracle.
Number of seconds ? I don’t trust this affirmation. The example of Queen is not a good one, Under Pressure is full of tensions and changes, anywhere in the track you may prouve that there is a golden, silver or wooden number!
They talk about Bartok, but who really cares about Bartok? His music is hard to understand and even more hard to listen! Of course lots of people like it, but most of people find it dissonant.
The piece of music in the end has no interest. “Look I created something with Fibonacci”. Well in fact this is not a miracle, she could have created a piece with e or even pi... https://youtu.be/rb65fmSa610

Edit: and what about the notes? Well no Fibonacci here. 1-3-5-8 might be the basis of a major chord, but in fact chords are made from scales, taking each odd notes, 1-3-5 then 7, 9, 11, for complex (“jazz”) chords. No Fibonacci. And even there, we should talk modulo 7 (in fact ((x-1)mod(7))+1), so 8 is 1, 9 is 2, 11 is 4, ...
Frequency of notes? Well in the chromatic scale the notes are composed on geometric series with (12)NTHROOT(2)= 1.05946309436 as a factor, so no golden number here.

[Mark Hardman]

[pinkman]

Yes I saw that also, but to my comprehension this is purely aesthetic.
The only musical measure is (B1+B2), which is called the diapason, but the ratio B1/B2 has no interest, musically speaking. If every violin that respects these ratios was a Stradivarius, musicians would be very happy!
Once again, I think the Golden number is to be seen, not heard... unfortunately.

[pinkman]

OMG! I did not see that Paul Davids himself (the man of the PI song) created a Fibonacci musical composition 1 month ago. For me it is another demonstration that the golden ratio has nothing to do with music.
https://youtu.be/MbEtnljYF18