Spectrum Color and the Circle of 5ths (Fifths)

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Presentation of the scientific correlation between the languages of color and sound through the Circle of 5ths (Fifths). Demonstrations showing properties of Spectrum Color and it's sound equivalents. Reading and understanding music through Spectrum Color is also demonstrated within the Virtuoso 3.0 Electronic Music Education System.

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  • Do you have an idea of where i can find a "color wheel of equalized central hue colors" so that i can compare it with yours? Or how can i make one by myself? Thanks for the explanations.

  • @memoweb01 You can find one that is very close on the Handprint website under the Tertiary Wheel. The author is an esteemed color theorist and provides some of the most detailed information available on the internet. His color names are more in line with industrial usage though. What you need to consider is that the concept of 'tuning color' is a new concept to this project. The tools to tune color have been available for hundreds of years, but the impetus was not.

  • @memoweb01 You can find one that is very close on the Handprint website under the heading Tertiary Wheel. The author is an esteemed color theorist and provides some of the most detailed information available on the internet. His color names are more in line with industrial usage though. What you need to consider is that the concept of 'tuning color' is a new concept to this project. The tools to tune color have been available for hundreds of years, but the impetus was not.

  • @memoweb01 cont- The method of tuning a perfect color wheel is similiar in concept to tuning a musical instrument such as a piano, but hinges on tuning opposing complementary colors which is somewhat inverted to sound which tunes closely related tones. The method is far too detailed to present in this comment section but could be sent to you through a message if you are interested.

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  • D and A is more like a flash light

  • This beautiful. Peace, The Sharbohemia (Shar) ·٠•●♥ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

  • Ow... This hurts my synesthesia...

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    Cont. I think that what you do is good and on the right track. I have been self teaching myself music in the last months and i found available music theory very little intuitive and very little didactic (= illogic). With time and effort i found myself that harmony in music follows a very precise and logic path that can be understood either through numbers (or geometry = visual numbers) instead of names which are many times arbitrary and have little in common with reality.

  • @virtuosoism Yes, i would be interested please send the message. I have been interested in the relationship between color and sound for some time. And as you said i found light waves and sound waves cannot be physically correlated. On my part i have found many interesting geometrical relationships in the equal tempered scale when drawn in a circle (that truly represents spirals passing through the "same points"/"same tones in different octaves).

  • @memoweb01 In order to correlate the languages of color to sound, the tuning of each system must be defined. The only means by which to create a correlation is equalization. This is a basic tenet of math and science. It's like converting pounds into kilograms. There is only 1 exact equality of measurement.  This means that Equal-Tempered positions of sound must be compared to a color wheel of equalized central hue colors with equal intensities.

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