12-31-09
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Geeking out:
I just realized the musicality of hexadecimal numbers.
I was just trying to find the value of a certain color on the banner of this website. These colors kept appearing: #FCFCCA, #FDFDCB, #EEEFC7, #FEFECC, #FCFCC6, #FFFFCD, #FBFACA, #F7F6C6...
Each one of those could be a the chord changes to a perfectly decent three minute song! I mean, right?
I can imagine that you don't believe me. You can try it yourself --those color values are from the banner and the menu bar of this website, and there's not a bad one in the batch. Each chord progression is better than the last!
The whole system is base sixteen, so it goes zero to 9 and then A to F.
Colors of light on a computer screen are made up of the presence of red, green and blue colors. It ranges from 00 to FF, or 256 (16 times 16) possible values.
#FCFCCA:
Red: #FC, or 252 out of 255,
Green: #FC, 252 out of 255,
Blue: #CA, 202 out of 255.
I guess G is left out of the mix, but G goes with everything, right? I guess if one were to write music only using heximal values of colors, one would have to make a concerted effort to remember to use G.
I would imagine a song to be set up like this:
Song #1
Verse 1: F-C
Verse 2: F-C
Chorus: C-A, maybe even C-A-F-C, and then maybe another verse and another chorus, and then a big finish. maybe AC/DC style.
Hey, A-C-D-C! I never realized that! Do any of their songs use that progression? Did they avoid it because it was too obvious, and cause them to feel like parodies of themselves?
What?! What a life. Go math! Go music! Go numbers and rhythms and words and clocks. Happy new year!
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