The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment And the Tuning of the World
“Music was then perfect. In both East and West arcane accounts hint at these times. In the Sangīta-makaranda (I, 4–6) we learn that there are two forms of sound, the anāhata, “unstruck,” and the āhata, “struck,” the first being a vibration of ether, which cannot be perceived by men but is the basis of all manifestation. “It forms permanent numerical patterns which are the basis of the world’s existence.”This is identical with the Western concept of the Music of the Spheres, that is, music as rat...ional order, which goes back to the Greeks, particularly to the school of Pythagoras. Having discovered the mathematical correspondence between the ratios of the harmonics in a sounding string, and noting that the planets and stars also appeared to move with perfect regularity, Pythagoras united discovery with intuition and conjectured that the two types of motion were both expressions of a perfect universal law, binding music and mathematics. Pythagoras is reported to have been able to hear the celestial music, though none of his disciples was able to do so.MoreLess
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