Friday, March 22, 2013
Mirror
Lately I've been noting an odd little string of musical coincidences. The left end of the FM band is occupied by two autopilot stations. KAGU is owned by Gonzaga and runs a constant pre-recorded sequence of classical. KEWU is owned by Eastern Wash Univ and runs a constant pre-recorded sequence of jazz. Sometimes I need an injection of baroque, so I tune all the way to the left end... but if the first few notes sound uninteresting (ie Brahms or Wagner), I'll tune across the rest of the dial.
Almost every time, the randomly selected few notes of the uninteresting classical on KAGU are repeated by the randomly selected few notes of the jazz on KEWU. Not just repeated in transposed or parallel form, but repeated exactly in jazz instrumentation.
Why? Is this sort of like the "first digit is 1" paradox?
Update 18 months later: Still works. Oddly it doesn't work the other way around. When I pass through the jazz station on the way to the classical, I'll hear a few notes of jazz, then settle into the classical. There's no relationship between the notes in this direction.
¶ 8:49 AM 
Almost every time, the randomly selected few notes of the uninteresting classical on KAGU are repeated by the randomly selected few notes of the jazz on KEWU. Not just repeated in transposed or parallel form, but repeated exactly in jazz instrumentation.
Why? Is this sort of like the "first digit is 1" paradox?
Update 18 months later: Still works. Oddly it doesn't work the other way around. When I pass through the jazz station on the way to the classical, I'll hear a few notes of jazz, then settle into the classical. There's no relationship between the notes in this direction.
¶ 8:49 AM
