More on primal unitiy or tonal center
A comment I received inspired me to write another post about tonal centers. Generators, electric lights, and signs have a recordable pitch. A study was done by Murray Shaefer in a small town in Sweden where he plotted these frequencies on a sound map. He found that these pitches created a G sharp major triad. Furthurmore, when a train went by he found that the whistle was a F sharp creating a dominant 7th chord. I have not yet recorded the pitches around Kyoto, but I intend to. Kyoto may very well be in a tuned to a minor key. More on this as it develops…