Crop
Circles -- Music in the Fields 2006©
Mahalah
Rood
“It’s
all in the Seeing and not just the Looking…”
When
the new wave of Crop Circles appeared in the 1980’s they were
simple variations of circles carefully placed in grain fields. As interest
grew by observers, researchers and farmers, so did the complexity of
the Crop Circles and their placements in fields. At times it seemed
that formations would attempt to reflect current thinking about their
origins; and then in the next season exceed prior speculations and the
formations took off to a different level of complexity. This morphing
suggests some form of intelligent/sentient interface, plug-in or monitoring
of humans’ reactions to the crop formations! While many formations
appear ‘decorative’, do they contain hidden messages placed
by the unknown creators?
While many of the crop formations are incredibly beautiful geometric
creations, the simplest grouping of circles yield an interesting geometric
story according to Dr. Gerald S. Hawkins former chairman of astronomy
at Boston University. Inspired by the book Circular Evidence which presented
an extensive report of crop circles in the UK from 1978-1988 Hawkins
performed serious mathematical analyses and hidden ratios emerged that
relate to the white keys on the piano!
Four of Five
of Hawkins's Theorems derived from studies
of
Crop Circles. Illustration from
"The Deepening Complexity of Crop Circles"
by Eltjo
H. Haselhoff, Phd
proportions which lead to the above Euclidean geometry theorems. The theorems revealed that the crop formations were laid out in such a way to present the diatonic ratio/ scale corresponding to Middle C on the piano keyboard.
So then what type of hoaxer can compose music in circles of wheat? Or is there some sort of unidentified intelligence attempting communication in a scale according to our current technological level?
We now have an abundance of airplanes, helicopters, satellites: cameras on long poles, electromagnetic meters, camcorders, phone networks and television coverage to discover and broadcast these messagesaround the globe.
Humanity’s vision is vast, but is our consciousness still too narrow to understand the significance of the Music in the Fields?
As an artist I’m not so interested in identifying all details of crop circles through the scientific method or trying to dismiss the whole phenomenon with an “It’s all done by hoaxers” theory. There are hidden messages and as these messages are revealed I allow them to inspire my art. And that is what art is all about—to travel where science and journalism fear to tread.
In the course of writing
this essay I contacted two musicians, one a jazz pianist and the other
a guitarist, and asked them what they thought of Hawkins’ discoveries
and they immediately recognize a similarity to a musical scale that is
not used as much because it can cause too much feed back in electronic
sound equipment. So can this be a case of our technology blindsiding us
from a fresh view of music and harmonics? Only time, genuine research
and creative experimentation will tell.
