A Philosophy of Astrology #7 ~ The Key

When Carl Jung and Wolfgang Pauli discussed synchronicity, they were not just looking for a way to explain extraordinairy meaningful coincidences. The real goal was to come up with a theory that allows for the integration of matter and meaning, or physis and psyche.

A Philosophy of Astrology #6 ~ The Science

For most people with a scientific background it's simply common sense that all things astrological are nonsense, when in fact, there's solid quantitative research to back up various astrological claims. Very few professional scientists have reviewed it.

Asteroid tales ~ C.G. Jung's Red Book

Carl Jung's influence on contemporary astrology is considerable. He introduced new ideas that remain popular, like collective unconscious, archetype and synchronicity. In some sense Jung was also an astrologer, although he didn't do a lot of 'cookbook-astrology'.

The aesthetic fallacy

Hard scientists love to project concepts like elegance and beauty on simple equations like E = mc². A revealing choice perhaps, but also quite absurd. Economic use of symbols is really about compressing a body of theory and data to its absolute limit. But if beauty = max compression, the most beautiful painting would be 100% abstract.

The retroactive effect of asteroid names

The movements of the stars, the planets and even the asteroids are of great interest to astrologers. To most stargazers, a piece of space-rock becomes more useful when it has been named. The name connects the physical object to the realm of meaning; an important starting point for astrological interpretation. But that's not the whole story. Many names of astronomical objects are in fact deeply weird.

Renay Oshop ~ Scientific astrologer par excellence

Contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as rigorous scientific astrology. Vedic astrologer Renay Oshop is (one of) the best. She uses modern techniques like AI to trace correlations between the rhythms of the planets and the rhythms of life. She also bends spoons. We had a nice chat recently about the universe, music and astrology.

Φ in the sky: how to interpret Golden Aspects

This is our second post about the astrologer Theodor Landscheidt, who proposes that the Golden Ratio (or Φ) plays an important role in the physical stabilization of our solar system. He also proposes that the Golden Ratio has an astrological meaning related to stability.

Is Deep Learning the new 42?

Microphone technique vs. a debate about the future of high tech. Hilarious. If you're interested in the musical side of Deep Learning, try Sirajology on DopeLearning. If you're a dubb scientist, read Wavenet: a generative model for raw audio, a new paper from the Go-champions of Deepmind. Eurorack lovers could try The Oracle.

Astrology and music: how planets and musicians interact

In this post we present the first results of a new Dubbhism research program: astrology. We're looking at the combinations of the planets in the birth charts of musicians. For this project, we don't use regular astrology (zodiac signs, houses etc.). Instead, we look at a remarkable theory based on the Golden Ratio.

Victim of the Brain

80ties docudrama starring Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett.

How to Draw Mushrooms on an Oscilloscope

Better than Chladni Plates. DIY-crew read the manual over here.

Your thoughts are made of sound

According to traditional nerve-theory, two nerve impulses sent from opposite ends of a nerve annihilate when they collide. New research from the Niels Bohr Institute now shows that two colliding nerve impulses simply pass through each other, just like sound pulses.

Mysteries of Dubb ~ Ancient Acoustics

Man has worshipped the Gods of Bass ever since the beginning of time. In the days before the pyramides, when there were no cities and no agriculture, the best places for bass worship were caves. Because caves are the ready-made dub studios of mother nature.

Interplanetary soundbwoys are full of big chat

This is the subwoofer of ESA’s Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF), a test facility which subjects satellites to the same noise a launcher produces as it takes off. The ESA soundbwoys claim to have the most powerful sound system in Europe, they also claim their system can kill people at maximum output. Full of big chat we say..

Mysteries of Dubb ~ How low can you go?

Back in the 80's most people didn't really understand the power of the 808 bass drum. Then Chuck D of Public Enemy came along. Being a philosophical kind of person, he posed what is perhaps the most fundamental question in modern music: Bass! How low can you go?

Mysteries of Dubb ~ The Fourth Dimension

Drums + Bass + Space = Dubb. The math is simple. But the mystery remains: how can we visualize the highly paradoxical local spatiality of Dubb in accurate, and even rigorous ways? About 100 years ago, Claude Fayette Bragdon investigated these questions in A Primer of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension) and Four-dimensional Vistas.

Musician Wren whistles perfect octaves

The Musician Wren (a.k.a. Cyphorhynus arada) whistles melodies that sound 'human'. Musicologist Emily Doolittle and biologist Henrik Brumm found that Musician Wrens preferentially produce successive perfect octaves, fifths, and fourths; the basics of human harmony.

Musical Numerology #8 ~ Yet another octave based theory of everything

The claim: the universe is made of dynamic octave relationships. These particular octaves should not be thought of as whole number ratios (the Pythagorean octave concept) but as moving patterns or scenarios. These octaves are the key to all mysteries of the universe. If you know what to look for, you'll start seeing them everywhere.

Speaker that works best in the 5 – 50Hz range

Wanna construct your own Giant Speaker? Check this little tutorial.

Musical Numerology #1 ~ The Good, the Bad and the Illuminati: 440 Hz vs 432 Hz

The Claim: the official concert pitch standard A4=440 Hz is an EVIL pitch standard. It ruins our classical music. A4=432 Hz is a GOOD pitch standard. The EVIL pitch is a brainchild of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels (Bavarian Illuminati). The GOOD pitch resonates with the cosmos and your chakra's and it sounds better.