This looks like a nice place to live―Skruv, Sweden. The Cardboard Factory is in G#. The Glassworks are in C#. The Metalworks are in D#. And the Shopping Centre is an octave of A#’s. Add all the tones up, and you get the Town Chord―an incomplete chord, that is best described as a C#6 (add 9). It’s basically two sets of perfect fifths―C# and G#, D# and A#―stacked on top of each other.
The root of Skruv is a low C# provided by the Glassworks, and the Cardboard Factory makes a perfect fifth with its G#. The D# Metalworks provide the 9th. At the top of the chord, is the Shopping Centre’s A# octave―the 6th of C#. Skruv is such a sharp place to live this time of year!
Yeah, you don’t hear that chord too often, unless you circle around Sweden in a helicopter, though I imagine the rotors might get in your ear’s way.
The above map is from the World Soundscape Project, a musical initiative started by Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. In the 1970’s, the WSP research group documented the acoustic ecology of various European cities, from the sounds of nature, to the sounds of human beings and their machines. Schafer was especially concerned with noise pollution in the industrial soundscape in Vancouver. His work sought a musical homeostasis for modern society through awareness of town tonality.
Look out New Paltz, you’re going to get soundscaped hard!
Pleased Fresh Year one! :)