a color-symbolism for music
along any branch on the Tree of Life
so that creating a new song
means creating a colored branch segment
n minutes long
that listeners can then re-experience
in parallel with their own colormoods
and i'll propose that any song's
segmentcolors
sum
to a combined
stress-level
at any point
which stress-level
is the first aspect we judge
with individuals varying widely
in their preferred stress-level
hormonal teens seeking stress
burntout boomers avoiding it
stress levels transmitted via
beats per minute
(fast or slow)
timbres of instruments and voices
(smooth or rough)
volume (loud or soft)
(so that even if the listener is
distracted
the stress-level will impinge
subliminally
and modulate their mood)
and that next
beneath this overall stress-level
is a mood
which can be any human mood imaginable
but a listener may reject
whole ranges of moods
which implies an immaturity
or vulnerability
the song's
embodiment
of the chosen mood
can be more
or less successful
more or less original/cliched
more or less
technically accomplished
and further
in this age of sampling
the song can be more or less
repetitive
(if they repeat that measure
one more time
i'm bailing!)
