The Harmonious Web
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I have been doing a lot of reading and thinking - sorry for not posting in a while! The good news (?) is that I have much more to write about.
Imagine if the Internet is a song, and everyone participating is part of the music - literally!
Note: There is probably 0 (zero) practical value in reading the rest of this blog post. However, if seeing life from another perspective interests you, read on …
Say I got you to hit a few keys on a piano - clang clang. The key you hit would determine the pitch (frequency) of the sound, and the characteristic of the noise would be the sound of a “piano” (as opposed to a trumpet). To record what you played we would take sub-second samples of the sound’s amplitude and store the samples sequentially on a computer. We could then take these samples and play them through a speaker to convert the numbers back in to a very good audible approximation of the sound you made with the piano.
Instead of a piano, let’s say I gave you a blog which you would post too regularly and often - clang clang. Suppose we “somehow” crunch each post to a single number and stored these numbers sequentially on a computer. Collectively, these samples would code for the blog’s character with a particular frequency. What would happen if you took those sequential numbers and ran them through a speaker just like we did with the piano samples?
Well, you would probably just hear lots of noise - “asdlihqwt7u32ijwfajhasdfsdf”. But, surely there’s hope in turning a blog in to an instrument … ?
A few ponderings …
If the sampling of a blog was a function of it’s themes, would it be possible to construct a harmony from thematically harmonious blogs?
What would make a blog sound like a drum and not a string?
If we assume an instrument consists of an attack, decay, sustain, and release phase, then blog samplings would have to implicitly define these.
