Tone Color Alchemy

Wow! Very impressive research And dedication. I will recommend your work to friends of mine interested in exactly this sort of thing.

As a hardline chaote though, I absolutely must insist on using your alchemical glyph as a template for translating sigils into sounds and vice versa. For instance, taking my alphabet of desire and superimposing each sigil over your tonal map, reading counterclockwise where the points fall and creating a little tune intended for evocation. No good for one-shot spells I don't imagine, although maybe with some nonsense barbaric invocation used as lyrics...but possibly effective with my personal alphabet. It might also be a good way to turn my random songs into visual symbols...hmmm...Hope you're not offended that I'm hijacking your research tools for unintended uses! I'll let you know how the experiments turn out!

No offense taken, Ezavan. On the contrary, I wrote an article called Chaos Magick and Songwriting back in April. It's a loose model for how sigils can be derived from fretboards and sheet music:

At the internal TCA Forum, we discuss different methods of abstracting ordered, non-musical signals from the Universe and putting them to use as informants of a discrete musical sequence. Here are some examples of how it works:

Converting 2d line drawings into guitar chords:



Plotting 2d line drawings on a Cartesian coordinate system:



Deriving chords and melodic sequences from license plates:



Musical Thought Experiments challenge our traditional methods of coming up with harmonic and melodic patterns. As you can see in the examples above, I am still operating within a very traditional, tonal framework. We’re looking at different ways to disrespect and mistreat formal approaches to songwriting, while still honoring Tonal Harmony and 12 Tone Equal Temperament as our departure point.

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I also recently whipped up this diagram of the 22-note sequence derived from the linear progression of paths down the tree of life, from Kether to Malkuth. The contour of these melodies, when connected as a single line, demonstrates possibility for sigil derivatives. Basically, if tone and rhythm are quantized and projected onto a box matrix like this, the true angular expression of what we hear will find visual expression. By this method, we can draw upon the laws of functional harmony (traditional music theory) and begin to study the magickal origins of music's affective power. Here's the chart:



Finally, a video of the 22 tone colors with hebrew letters, followed by a live-action film of yours truly singing the 22-note sequence in combination with the tarot meditations as mapped out by Stan Tenen of the Meru foundation:

Key 0 = Aleph (air)
Key 1 = Beth (foundation)
Key 9 = Yod (open hand)

Binary system derived from physiological polarity (open hands).
Aleph = Opposite hands pressing thumbs and forefingers together
Beth = Opposte hands pulling thumbs and forefingers apart

When working on body energy points and meditation on Tarot cards (and the Tree of Life) some four years ago, I dived deeply into the possibilities of resonating sounds with colors, that could be attached to such systems.

As effective as I found my research, I came to the conclusion that sound frequency linked to color, wernt linked universally, but rather subjective to the personal inward subconscious resonates.

I found color to be some what more universal in visualization (my personal research linking widely with others), though with sound, as there is many different scales, and music sytems, I found it was more personalized (I still found c to b normal scales worked best for me).

Fascinating Topic.

Enjoyed your posts. I am bit late it seems.