Real life DaVinvi code: Music code in Last Supper

[I, Brian]

Interesting story:

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Music 'hidden' in Last Supper art

A computer technician has claimed to have cracked a real Da Vinci code, by finding musical notes encoded in the masterpiece The Last Supper.

Leonardo Da Vinci left clues to a 40-second musical composition in his painting, Giovanni Maria Pala said.

Each loaf of bread in the picture represents a note, he said, which combine to sound "like a requiem".

Alessandro Vezzosi, director of Tuscany's Da Vinci museum, said the theory was "plausible".

If you look at the image attached below, it actually makes a lot of sense, especially considering De Vinci's interest in music.

Will see if we can find a file online that actually plays a recording of it.

[flowperson]

Hi Brian...Here's some information that may further clarify just what DaVinci was driving at in his symbolism. And, BTW, all of this is a little closer to home for you.

This also relates to the "flower of Creation" symbolism that Andymonk has been addressing in his thread in this section of CR.

There is a "music of the spheres" and it relates to universal and interplanetary/stellar lines of force. Modern terminology calls it "scalar lines of force" and it is all related to "electromagnetic/gravitational forces".
It's the same thing that "dowsers" sense and act upon. Neolithic sites were constructed to memorialize them in ancient cultures.

Same things and phenomena, different eras of applications of this primal knowledge IMHO. Similar to and related to pyramid symbolisms also.

flow....

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2020832005

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2Dg...rchives%2F5529

[intrepidlover]

You think that's cool? How about this one.

[Reuters, London, May 5, 2007]

A Scottish church which featured in the best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" has revealed another mystery hidden in secret code for almost 600 years. A father and son who became fascinated by symbols carved into the chapel's arches say they have deciphered a musical score encrypted in them.

Thomas Mitchell, a 75-year-old musician and ex-Royal Air Force code breaker, and his composer and pianist son Stuart, described the piece as "frozen music." "The music has been frozen in time by symbolism," Mitchell said on his WEBSITE, which details the 27-year project to crack the chapel's code. "It was only a matter of time before the symbolism began to thaw out and begin to make sense to scientific and musical perception."

The 15th Century Rosslyn Chapel, about seven miles south of the Scottish capital Edinburgh, featured in the last part of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" -- one of the most successful novels of all time which has been turned into a Hollywood film. Stuart Mitchell said he and his father were intrigued by 13 intricately carved angel musicians on the arches of the chapel and by 213 carved cubes depicting geometric-type patterns.

"They are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here," he told Reuters. Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches. The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody.

The Mitchells have called the piece The Rosslyn Motet and added words from a contemporary hymn to complete it. They have also scheduled a world premiere at a concert in the chapel on May 18, when four singers will be accompanied by eight musicians playing the piece on medieval instruments.

Simon Beattie of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust said he was delighted to have the mystery finally solved, and was intrigued by the music itself. "It's not something you would want to put on in the car and listen to, but it's certainly an interesting piece of music," he said. "It's got a good medieval sound to it."

Thomas.J.Mitchell - The Rosslyn Motet

[flowperson]

Yes IL, cool...but as I tried to point out, this all implies, IMHO, something larger and more significant.

You might also be interested to know that the vaulted ceilings in medieval cathedrals all over Europe were specifically designed to resonate musical tones at the extreme low frequencies (ELF) in the Schumann-Tesla (ST) range of approximatley 7-8 cycles per second. This, BTW, is below the low frequency limits of human hearing (about 25-30 cycles per second).

The ST resonance frequency is the resonant frequency of the Earth itself, and it affects everything on the planet with regard to its natural, living systems. So I guess it could be said that human exposures to ST frequencies might be utilized as a subtle signalling system for whoever/whatever might choose to use it as such.

flow....

[intrepidlover]

Originally Posted by flowperson

Yes IL, cool...but as I tried to point out, this all implies, IMHO, something larger and more significant.
flow....

Sorry about the "cool." It was directed at the initial post, but you snuck yours in ahead of me while I was writing mine. Thanks for the info about the low frequency resonances.

As a former audiophile I know what you mean by frequencies below the range of the human ear. I have seen speaker cones resonate at these sub-human frequencies.