"Counting between pauses, the syllables in Maynard James Keenan's vocals during the verses form the first few Fibonacci numbers, ascending and descending. For instance, in the first verse: "Black, then, white are, all I see, in my infancy. Red and yellow then came to be." correspond with the beginning of the sequence: (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8)."
"It was originally titled 9-8-7. For the time signatures. Then it turned out that 987 was the 16th number of the Fibonacci sequence. So that was cool."
Let me know what you think once you have given it a listen a time or two - I find that some albums take a while to really appreciate their beauty; take Ihsahn's AngL for examle: it gave me serious headaches listening to it the first few times. After a while, I realised the true genius of the avante garde mix of Black Metal and saxophones.
Yep =)
"Counting between pauses, the syllables in Maynard James Keenan's vocals during the verses form the first few Fibonacci numbers, ascending and descending. For instance, in the first verse: "Black, then, white are, all I see, in my infancy. Red and yellow then came to be." correspond with the beginning of the sequence: (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8)."
"It was originally titled 9-8-7. For the time signatures. Then it turned out that 987 was the 16th number of the Fibonacci sequence. So that was cool."
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You're welcome ^_^
Let me know what you think once you have given it a listen a time or two - I find that some albums take a while to really appreciate their beauty; take Ihsahn's AngL for examle: it gave me serious headaches listening to it the first few times. After a while, I realised the true genius of the avante garde mix of Black Metal and saxophones.