New Idea for Alien Contact: Tune to 432.

New Idea for Alien Contact: Tune to 432.

I have developed a new theory for contacting alien life.

Mankind harnessed the Electricities in the Twentieth-Century A.D.

It was in the first half of this same century that music was re-tuned to a standard tuning of A = 440 Hertz.

As we all know (if we are audiophiles): the proper tuning, in accord with the Universal Frequency, is A = 432. [a la Verdi, Mozart, and monks in general.]

We have all ready sent tones based upon the Fibonacci Sequence headlong into outer space. The intellect loves complication, as do musicians of an intellectual variety, so the tones we sent out are extremely subtle.

How did we get so desperate? Well: as any young man with a neurotic I.Q. can tell you: desperation is over-compensation. A simple tone played at a steady pace, following the pattern 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc. would suffice.

But it has to be tuned properly. Otherwise (as any struggling musician will repeat this sagely idiom): Who is going to listen to it?

All life is communication. We have had the technology to contact alien life for several generations. Yet just as this technology is useless for interpersonal communication in a society devoid of Myth, (notice the capitalization, to stress its importance rather than its popular negligibility, the latter of which proves my case) so it is that interplanetary communication is futile if we have forgotten our sonic roots.

If the people sending signals into Deep Space stepped out of the ideological padded cell* of science into the realm of spirituality, meditation, yoga and esoteric musicology, we just might be able to put a good message out. Who knows? If some one is listening on the receiving end, They (notice again the capitalization; I am not being grammatically incorrect but rather referring to the Proverbial They.) just MIGHT pick up what we are putting out.

Dm.A.A.

*The padded cell metaphor is of course of twofold significance: not only is a padded cell evocative of an insane asylum. It would all so have AWFUL acoustics.