If Color Music is going to work, then it has to be done right. You can’t just use any random colors. They’ve got to be the right ones … but, of course, which ones? We already know that music is all about patterns. And color is too. So let’s look at color patterns first. After all, color

So, it seems like color might help us see music patterns. But before we check it out, we should answer a couple of questions. I mean, we don’t want to waste our time if this isn’t going to work. The first question is, “Why haven’t we seen this before?” If color is really that obvious, then color

So how can we see sound? What do music patterns look like? At first, you might think, “Music notation, of course! It shows what notes look like. And it lets you see how patterns rise and fall as you move through a song.” In a way, that’s right—but also wrong. If you’ve ever seen a page

I like patterns. There’s something mysterious about them—but also something natural and basic. Maybe that’s because we’re surrounded by patterns every day, all the time. Some of them we can see—like railroad tracks, trees lining the street, or the windows in a building. And other patterns we can hear—like the tick of a clock, the

A while back, I stumbled upon a great way to play music. Apparently, you can see sound using a special pattern of colors. Of course, I was skeptical about this at first because I thought the idea was impossible. But it’s true—color and music follow the exact same patterns. And this connection is known as

Right now, I’m reading an excellent book called “Leonardo: The First Scientist” by Michael White. I already knew it, but da Vinci was basically awesome. And this book has a lot of information that’s new to me. Like, did you know that Leonardo wrote over 13,000 pages of notes over his lifetime … but only half of

Pythagoras had a good brain. A very good brain. As the “father” of western music theory, he rates pretty high on the coolness scale. You may not recognize his face, but he looms large in the history of music. He was born in Greece around 580 B.C.E. and was famous in his day as a

Like Bob Dylan once said, “The times they are a-changin’.” In music, this is totally true. Today more than ever, it’s easier to find and listen to great music. Digital technology makes it possible to record and share tons of songs. And it seems like everybody has an iPod or some kind of MP3 player.

I think we need a breather. I mean, the chromatic scale is cool and all. But all this talk about notes, and sharps, and flats makes me want to relax … at least for a minute or three. It turns out, musical patterns are easy. (How hard can it get with only 12 notes?) But sometimes