Natural Machines bonus episode 2023: The TRAPPIST-1 System

In which I improvise with the TRAPPIST-1 orbital ratios. This is a real planetary system about 40 light years from us whose planets happen to orbit their host star in an unusually harmonious way. Pythagoras discovered that notes sound good together when their frequencies are related by whole-number ratios, and the planets in TRAPPIST-1 have settled into resonant orbits related almost exactly as follows: 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 / 9 / 15 / 24. Here I play these ratios both as rhythms and as frequency relationships, then I improvise over them.

Full album on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUzNnspxG1f5Bks6R8ckCzDSEn__psaO8

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