Okay, so color is simple. There are just 12 colors in the color wheel and we all know how they work. You’ve got primaries … and secondaries … and tertiaries. Oh yeah, and there are complementary colors, too. It’s basic, really. As it turns out, music patterns are just as simple—seriously. They just look a little strange.

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

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.