About

This is a music blog. One of many, but this is one is mine and I share it with my good friend Tyler Mowry.  At some point, I am sure that there will be others that will join in, but until that time, it is just ours.  There will not be much consistency in the genre of music you find here; it will just be a mishmash of things that we create.

The name of the blog stems from an old philosophical/mathematical idea, musica universalis. The ancient Greek thinker, Pythagoras, was the first to suggest this concept that he called the “Harmony of the Spheres.” He theorized that the sun and the planets vibrated, each at a specific frequency, unique to each celestial body, which correlated to the mathematical dimensions that they shared.  With the hum of each planet and their star, the universe around us plays out a piece of music that we cannot hear, though measured by the numbers that organize reality.  From here more ideas and concepts diverge in different directions from other thinkers like Ptolemy and Johannes Kepler.

Musically speaking, Plato saw human varieties of music as a lesser form than what was understood as being played out by our empyrean neighbors. It is from here that inspiration has been taken. Today, there are so many more forms of music than Plato ever could have imagined, but they are all still based on the same basic principles. I am lucky enough to have the tools and knowledge to share in all of this. I see it as an ongoing conversation that we all are sharing in as we respond to what is all around us seen or unseen, heard or unheard, perceived or not.