Rosslyn Chapel is located in Edinburgh Scotland; it is believed to hold many secrets. Linked to Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, the Prior de Sion and other legends, many say it holds the secret to the “Holy Grail”.
Recently, the father and son of team of Thomas and Stuart Mitchell believe they’ve cracked one of the codes, that of the Music Angel Stave. There are 13 angels holding staves carved in relief in the architecture of the Rosslyn Chapel. In the ceiling of carved arches, near the angels, 213 decorated cubes with patterns adorn the framework. Each cube has a specific geometric pattern. Thomas and Stuart Mitchell believe these patterns are actually coded notes.
Ernst Florens Fredrich Chladni, a noted German physicist was born in 1756 and, up to this time, was the first person believed to show graphic representations of vibrations within a surface. His technique has been used in the design and construction of acoustic instruments and has also been used to examine the specifics of the famous design of the Stradivarius Violins. This type of wave phenomena study is known cymatics and this was the “key” to cracking the code of the geometric patterns found in the cubes at Rosslyn. Each pattern carved onto a cube, Mitchell believes, is an exact two-dimensional representation of a specific pitch.
This new discovery by the Mitchells now calls into question the musical and scientific understandings of those who built the chapel almost 300 years prior. It is possible that the builder of the chapel, Sir Walter St. Clair, or his colleagues, were privy to sciences centuries ahead of their time.
What a fresh new mix of music! Greg Pattillo shows off a new form of music -flute and beatboxing! This time it’s Sesame Street! You can tell he’s a good player and the beatboxing overtop of it all is really over the top! I like his breathy tone with the flute, it reminds me of Denis DiBlasio’s. Awesome stuff!
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Comment: When a student first sent this to me, I laughed like crazy. Here is a fellow (classically trained) playing the guitar and ranting about why he hates Pachelbel’s Canon in D. He provides a great presentation of other genre tunes that have “stolen” the chords and ends up in a tirade of emotional ranting at the end-well scripted!
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Comment: You won’t believe a man can sing this high. I know it’s possible, but Wow, to see this in reality is both Crazy and Unbelievable! The first in an annual video posting under the heading: Unbelievably Crazy Music Video Series.
Update: Readers have just informed me who this incredible counter-tenor is:
Vitalii (Vitas) Vladasovich Grachov- More about him from Wikipedia
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