The Fibonacci in Lateralus



The Fibonacci sequence in Tool's Lateralus. *3-31-10* Youtube just informed me that EMI owns this music and it's copyrighted, so if they decide to remove the audio, there's nothing I can do about it. It was just for a school project anyway. No big deal. *10-3-11* You can DL this vid here: http://www.philipriehl.com/videos/fib.flv

Comments

  1. So much math on this album. Heck, they even have a song called Parabola on Lateralus.
  2. thank you so much for taking the time to make such a great video ! I didn't think it was possible for me to love this song more then i already do. I stand corrected brother , the way you make the explanation follow the lyrics and the imagery just fantastic !
    awesome job !
  3. Tool use one riff AND A LOT OF 5/4 LOL
  4. love
  5. tool is great love you MJK
  6. Honestly I think that people try to read too much into this shit. I don't honestly think that they say down and was like, "I have this crazy formula for this song and it's gonna drive the fan boys crazy for years. And hopefully it's so full of numerical BS that High School Geometry teachers talk about us in class. And if we are lucky they will have College lectures on just how smart we are. And how our material is laced with knowledge." Seriously give me a break. I'm sure they laugh at all of you for implying that they intentionally made a math song for the fucking reading rainbow bus kids.
  7. Maynard has such an eloquent voice, it's almost intoxicating.
  8. For Kira 💕
  9. Maynard starts singing at 97 seconds. 97 seconds is exactly 1.618 minutes. 1.618 is the golden ratio.
  10. This is good work man, keep it going! \m/
  11. Starts doing the math and counting syllables: Holy shit............
  12. I enjoyed it Phil Riehl! Can't say I was a Tool fan before but I love Prog music and length or time of songs are no problem for me, the longer the better. I enjoy the short, medium and long songs. Thanks for posting...
  13. Faved
  14. for the longest time i didn't get why some of my friends were so obsessed with tool. i always suspected they just got into them because they assumed all the "cool" people were. maybe a lot of them started that way.. but even after graduating college (2002) my friends were still obsessed; even more so. and i was still like meh i can't get into them. but of course i liked the "famous" ones like sober stinkfist and schism.. and i really liked prison sex too.. but i never bought any of their music and i didn't usually seek it out to listen to it. then i heard a guitar player do an amazing cover of this song and i guess hearing the song distilled down that way made something click for me. i realized there was some crazy complex rhythms and stuff going on there and i was getting more into polyrhythms at the tim and suddenly now i'm totally hooked. i also thought maynard was either some kind of evil demon-possessed satanist, or he was trying hard to play act this. i listened to him talk on a couple of podcasts and i was like damn this guy sounds incredibly insightful, sensitive and humble in a lot of ways. but yeah even artists i find to be out there in their views, i can still love their artwork. but after listening to a lot of his views on this podcast i found he really is on another plane of thought, and i love that.

    also the interviewer asked him about this song and the fibonacci sequence thing and he seemed incredibly cagey about it at first.. but then he was like (paraphrasing) "well i kind of beat myself up about that because in a way it's sophmoric. it's like we are in this universe that is built this way, and music essentially IS fibonacci sequence.. so it's like lame to kind of try to shoehorn in this structure into a song this way." i was so impressed by him because this is how a truly great artist thinks imo. holding himself to a super high standard and always striving for a higher dimension of perfection.. never being satisfied totally with his past creations. i'm an artist (a pretty damn mediocre one tbh.. so far from his caliber that it's laughable) but i feel that same way. i understand when people say "i don't get tool." but i'm glad i kept going back and listening to them to figure out what the big deal was, and why certain rhythms and phrases in their songs just burrow into my brain even back then when i wasn't into them.
  15. wow
  16. fake Galaxies :)




    joking :)
  17. Tool is the closest thing I have to a religion.
  18. Powerful song, you really feel the spiral aspect, when playing the drums to it.
    Awesome video nice work!
  19. I'm also analyzing this for a school project / presentation and this was extremely helpful! I didn't know about any of this until now. Thank you.
  20. 6:40 OMG


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