This song has always been something that I've considered a turning point in terms of my appreciation of music. It has a life of its own. If it were to be translated into a painting it would be incredibly rich- with many shades and layers of complexity. Some people consider it noise - because they don't take the time to actually listen to and appreciate all of the seemingly loose threads that weave together and eventually come to culminate in something that is beyond my scope of description. And that's just on the sonic level. When examined under the hood - the music actually follows a mathematical sequence - the fibonacci. This is not news but perhaps it makes sense that in some way it would be more pleasing to the ear, just like the fibonacci sequence is found in objects in nature - such as "branching in trees, arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke, an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone." (wiki)
I think I'm trying to draw some sort of parallel between the two...is that clear?
Anyhow - this version of Lateralus makes it easier to discern all of the different melodies coming together at least slightly more easily than the original.
Which you can find here:
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