Music Based on Fibonacci Sequence and Stock Market

Gary Franczyk writes "A band named Emerald Suspension has made an album named Playing the Market that is, as they put it: "structured based on patterns created by the stock market, economic indicators, algorithms". They have some songs based off of the Fibonacci sequence, the misery and consumer confidence indices, and the national debt. "

11:15, restate my assumptions

[Carthag]

1. Mathematics is the language of nature.
2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.
3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge.

Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature

Real time data?

[lemmen]

What would happen if one creates an algorithm which composes music out of real-time stock exchange data? I guess this would be an interesting project for someone to create. You would hear music related to the mood of Market, depressing when it's dropping and happy music when the stocks are climbing.

patterns of plants cd

[robotvsrabbit]

reminds me of the cd by Mamoru Fujieda titled Patterns of Plants in which music was composed based on the data taken from plants. The data is taken by PLANTRON which is an interface that botanist Yuji Dogane devised for researching living organisms through observation of the relationship between plants and the environment. This disc was released on John Zorn's tzadik label back in '97. very relaxing. if you like this music of the stock market then give this plant disc a spin or two.

Good Music

[Anonymous Coward]

the song Lateralus by Tool is based on the Fibonacci Sequence

there's even been discoveries of the whole album Lateralus having some type of relationship with the sequence

Fibonacci Sequence by BT

[lowrydr310]

Anyone ever hear "Fibonacci Sequence" by BT? It's on Sasha's "Global Underground (13) - Ibiza" Disc 2, Track 1.

One, One, Two, Three, Five, Eight, Thirteen, Twenty-One... Mathematics is the language of nature

Tool has some fibonaaci stuff

[Raleel]

THe drum line in Lateralus is a fibonacci sequence. Some folks thought that it was a clue that you should listen to the album in a different order.

http://www.bofe.org/overthinking.htm [bofe.org]

While I have no idea if this is valid or not (the band has been quiet), I do listen to the album in that order. It's actually a better album, I believe, in that sequence.

Yet another Douglas Adams inspiration

[Mailleman]

But the silliest feature of all was that if you wanted your company accounts represented as a piece of music, it could do that as well. Well, I thought it was silly. The corporate world went bananas over it." Reg regarded him solemnly from over a piece of carrot poised delicately on his fork in front of him, but did not interrupt. "You see, any aspect of a piece of music can be expressed as a sequence or pattern of numbers," enthused Richard. "Numbers can express the pitch of notes, the length of notes, patterns of pitches and lengths. . " "You mean tunes," said Reg. The carrot had not moved yet. Richard grinned. "Tunes would be a very good word for it. I must remember that." Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency. :-D

Music of the Galaxies

[qengho]

Back in 1991 Fiorella Tirenzi [wikipedia.org] created music based on radio astronomy data. I'm betting she's easier to look at than the folks who produced the stock market music.

Fibonacci and Stocks

[superid]

My dad has been kind of behind these stock methods for quite a few years. This http://www.tfnn.com/u_article06.php [tfnn.com] is specifically the method that he uses (yes, he's a subscriber to tfnn).

My dad is pretty analytical and does not adopt stuff blindly. From the trades he has shown me he has been quite successful using this method. One benefit is that at least you have clear entry/exit points, so you tend not to hold onto losers.
 

Douglas Adams the Clairvoyant

[Volfied]

Should we be pleased or worried that ideas from the twisted mind of Douglas Adams are coming true? He predicted something akin to this in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

The Cloud Harp and the Music of the Spheres

[AchilleTalon]

There is already a music instrument which produce sounds based on the clouds structure. It's the Cloud Harp [cloudharp.org] which first model was build in 1997. The idea is however much more older, since you can go back to Johannes Kepler with his Music of the Spheres laid down the idea to produce music from natural phenomenons.

I made some music out of towers of hanoi once

[RedLaggedTeut]

Well back in the days of DOS, I was inspired by ideas like this to create music from "towers of hanoi" (thats the game with the 3 towers where you move discs)

I don't quite recall the details but I think it involved mapping frequencies to the towers and durations to the height or something like this.

The hardest part of it was to get any decent sound out of the PC speakers; but I solved this elegantly by not playing a single sound, but a mix of sounds, which was again based on the Towers of Hanoi algo.