Stanley Jordan Plays the Periodical Table (Ionization Energies)
The ionization energy is the amount of energy required to remove a single electron from an atom. If the atom has more than one electron, each one requires more energy than the previous one. The result is a series of increasing energy levels, and in the quantum world these energies correspond to frequencies, as in a musical scale.
This raises an interesting question: if we could hear these frequencies how would they sound? I created an app to find out, and in this video I used my app to share what I learned. As it turns out, the results are quite musical.
Important note: This audio includes some very low frequencies, which you might not hear through typical cell phone or laptop speakers. I recommend listening with headphones or a high-quality playback system.
The app was created using the APL programming language.
This video was uploaded in 2021, and changed from unlisted to listed in July 2024.
Eric Weinstein showed an excerpt of this video to Terrence Howard on the Joe Rogan podcast in July 2024. That link is here: • Joe Rogan Experience #...
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Here, because of Eric Weinstein
I own a software development company in the US (New Jersey). I’d be happy to work with you to build this into a web app so the public can access it, and experiment. If you’re interested we can figure out a way to get in contact and speak about it.
Thanks for listing this video so that others could see it.
Calling this Brilliant, doesn’t even touch it. This gives anything and everything a “voice”
Here because of Stanley's tweet. He is a legendary musician and thinker!
Amazing, Eric Weinstein sent me.
Going from Nitrogen to Oxygen sounds beautiful
Amazing, I use to run organometallic experiments with music in the background. When my Prof attempted to recreate my experiment to grow my crystal and failed. My response was, did you have country music playing in the background.
Here because I’ve been listening to stanly my whole life.
you watched Terrence Howard on the Joe Rogan Experience didn't you lol it is pretty fascinating though
Am I only the one not here because of Weinstein/Rogan??! You popped up on my feed randomly and this is absolutely incredible!
To translate ionization energies into sound waves I calculate frequency from energy using Planck's energy-frequency relation: v=E/h where:
Thank you for making this video visible for all to see❤
My mother bought your album Flying Home in the early 90s and we would play it all the time. It has had a huge impact on my life and I never forgot about you. But it's ironic you did this because I eventually grew up to get in to science and sonification.
So beautiful! I’m glad I paid attention in chemistry class, because I remember the visuals of atoms and shells and electrons, so I can “picture it.” Your insight is truly a gift to our world. ❤
I hear Eric ask Terrance if he knows Stanley Jordan. As if i'm in the room at Joe's, I hold back on replying, "a famous guitarist that taps different melodies simultaneous" because I don't want to look like a fool when Eric explains he's about to introduce some renowned physicist by the same name.
Ok, so I started studying guitar seriously a few weeks ago and it just struck me as making more sense to tune the guitar to all fourths due to symmetry, I searched about it and found Stanley as a proponent of it, so I found out your amazing unique way of playing and now I'm seeing music made out of ionization energies, and this is your official channel which actually has less than 2k subs, what kind of rabbit hole have I fallen into? 😍 this is straight up mad scientist stuff and it should be viewed by millions
Would it be possible to arrange an "elemental" mode? I think it would be amazing to map a keyboard tuned to these with the periodic table entry on the key. It would be interesting to remake music theory based on these, kind of like the metric system for music theory?
I am here also because of Eric, but I have been your fan for a few years, at least five not that it matters but... I heard you and loved you and Charnett Moffett together, bless his soul ❤❤❤❤
I've been familiar with you for years, I love your guitar playing!...and I've seen you play live with DMB but I had no idea you were working on this amazing topic! (that I've wondered about many times).. Incredible...Thank you so much for sharing.