The Cube by Alex Gore

Author:Alex Gore [Gore, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9786192300333
Publisher: algorithm
Published: 2018-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

“The top line is the most important.”

“It actually contains the melody, that we hum.” Hans started singing and pressing simultaneously the keys of the digital keyboard on the screen. They sounded the same: the intro. “I remembered what Bach said: ‘It is quite easy to play the organ, the only thing you must know is which key to press and after how much time to release it’. The most important characteristics of the tone are pitch and duration. From the point of view of Physics, the musical tones that are represented by notes are just sound waves with specified frequency and duration.

G = 392 Hz,

B♭= 466,16 Hz,

C = 523,25 Hz,

D♭= 554,37 Hz.

To us they might sound like a favorite song, but basically these are only figures, that are transmitted through the oscillations of the air and are caught by our hearing”, Hans added.

“All right, but what connects these numbers with the code?” “Since I studied music a little as a boy, though later I chose another field… as you well know I started my career with a doctor’s degree on…”

“Hans, please”, Norman insisted, “focus on the code!”

“For instance, the first tone is G, which is a crotchet, i.e. it has a note value of one, the second is B♭ with the same note value, the third is C, which has a note value of one and a half”, Hans went on and started writing on the screen:

G 1,0

B♭ 1,0 C 1,5

“Here is the entire riff, written in this way:

G1,0 B♭1,0 C1,5 G0,5 G0,5 B♭0,5 B♭0,5 D♭0,5 C2,0 G1,0 B♭1,0 C1,5 B♭0,5 B♭0,5 G0,5 G2,0.” “You mean that the frequency of the tone plus its duration are the key to the code?”, Marcela asked.

“Yes, that’s right. When we put the note value and abolish the decimal point, we get:

G10B♭10C15G05G05B♭05B♭05D♭05C20 G10B♭10C15B♭05B♭05G05G20 + pause. And when we replace the musical tone with the respective frequencies in Hertz:

392.10 46616.10 52325.15

392.05 392.0.5 46616.05 46616.05 55437.05 52325.20 392.10 41616.10 52325.15

46616.05 46616.05 392.05 392.20 + pause.

Or, written with no points and intervals: 3921046616105232515392053920546616054661605554370

552325203921046616105232515466160546616053920539220

+ pause.

Did you get it?” It was as if the endless deep silence of the desert was brought into the control room.

“Pause?” Marcela was the only one who dared to speak.

Hans nodded and went on:

“Yes, it seemed logical to me to present it like a note 00 with value of 1.0, i.e. 0010.”

“So, what is it finally?”, Norman asked.

“Pay attention to the time… 4/4.”

“What time is it? Isn’t 4/4 the same as 1/1, i.e. one?”, Marcela was the next one to pose a question.

“Not quite”, Hans smiled. “4/4 is a time that was imposed in classical music since Guido D’Arezzo till the Holy Trinity – Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. It consists of first strong time, second weak, third strong and fourth weak again… Suddenly the genius of rock music of the 20th century arrives and turns everything upside down.”

“What are you talking about, Hans? You’ve gone totally insane”, Alan murmured quietly.

“With Richie’s heavy rock the times of the percussion instruments are exchanged and they go respectively

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