Some kind of logo
So maybe you knew… maybe you didn’t, but wordpress has a bit of a contest going on to see what sort of fun things wordpress blogers can do with their logo. I think most people are planning to do some kind of visual project. You know… photo-shopping the logo on various things that it doesn’t belong on… maybe an awesome painting. So I thought… since we were a blog about creating music, it would be fitting if we did something musical.
Being a fairly huge geek, and not being the type to really write lyrics to anything, I relied on math to help me out. So I took the wordpress logo… did some measurements
The height of the W is about 160 pixels the width of the W at the lowest point is 95, 174 at the highest point. The diameter of the circle surrounding the W is 227 pixels and lastly the area of circle is 40470 (square pixels) and the circumference is 713 pixels. I also used the hexadecimal number for the color grey used in the logo (464646). I took all these measurements and calculations and pretended like the numbers were hertz tones. Then I found out what note each represented (I had to divide some of the numbers down into the audible range, and I decided not to worry about what octave the note was in). Surprisingly the notes I had to use were D♯, F♯, F, and A♯ (some of them were repeated). Then I played around a good deal. I first tried some guitar chords, but I didn’t like any chord progreshion using those chords. So i went for my keyboard and just started playing around with the notes in different orders and such until I found something I liked. Apparently i’m in a bit of a outerspace mood right now, because what I ended up with is some kind of weird enya space ambient house techno (or something like that). So the four notes comprise the background chords for the song, everything I played ontop of that strayed a little from those. My take on it is that wordpress represents the real backbone of this bloging community, and all the blogers are the embellishments… that make it interesting, fun and creative. So I felt it was fitting. Anyhow, I had a fun time and at the very least hope my entry will encourage people to think outside of the box a bit.
Oh… I named the song “Some Kind of Logo“
jake Gest
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Thanks so much!
Whoa, that’s brilliant! And so unique!!