I was thinking about an engineering white paper that I would write on attraction. There is definitely something about magnetically attracting things that have the same vibration that you are projecting. It’s most plainly obvious when you think about they way you’re drawn to beats and melodies that resonate the right way with you. For example, given a field of speakers all broadcasting different musical genres, I personally would gravitate toward rock played from the soul over say… psytrance or fashion groove. That’s just me.

But that goes to a further point of the idea of harmonics. A musician’s hand on a guitar or piano that knows what combination of notes create a chord knows the concept of harmonics. A live DJ (as opposed to iPod DJ) just has to match beats so I’m going to toss out those musicians for this illustration. It boils down to those notes existing at frequencies that when combined, build something bigger and fuller and more beautiful and descriptive — a chord. Think about what Fm says — dark, disco, funk. Or what F#m says — some sort of deep blue and violet beauty with sanguine tears. And the straight G/C/D major progression which is what fake hippies that are trying to impress college chicks with their shitty guitar playing sound like. All of the chords mentioned there require 3 notes to exist, and reverberate different emotional signatures. And those emotional signatures are the footprint of harmonics.

So why do F#, A, and C# work as notes that make up the F#m (F sharp minor) chord? They belong together because of the frequency at which they vibrate. Likewise, I think that can be extrapolated to peoples’ vibrations. The thing is though, that with people, they are notes that are conscious, awake, alive, and interactive. So I think it is obvious what I am driving at — which is that you can find other “notes” that work with you to complete a chord. Take that in whatever manner you wish. Love, friendship, business partners, whatever, but the fact is you are only going to feel harmony with people that vibrate in a way that complements you.

The caveat I would offer is that as conscious beings, you are able to control the note that you wish to represent. You can emulate many notes if you wish. That is another name for schizophrenia which I think nobody is immune to (like the way that every single person is on a graduated scale of homosexuality).  So until you’re fully aware of what note you actually are, you might be part of songs containing chords that are not at all what you were designed for. I mean c’mon, I was into Dungeons and Dragons for a while for fuck’s sake … well ok I guess I was sort of designed for that. This schizophrenic activity can actually be fully deliberate in the act of harmonic chameleoning, which can be useful if you are in an acting/spying/veritable-sheistering career.  But when it comes to actual life, it behooves you to know your real frequency. Otherwise you could be contributing your note to a Kenny G tune and not even know it. You could also be sucked into a chord by people maliciously looking for a missing note, which you are able to emulate.

One last thing which speaks to guitar dissonance and feedback – which is that … yea sometimes distortion sounds cool as fuck. So def spend time with dissonant people. You might get a cool sound, some head bangers, some misanthropes, and a shitload of morphine, heroin, and/or cocaine. Basically that means just do what you do everyday — deal with lamewads.

-rishi

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