Web Surfing – May 1, 2007

Musicians recently unlocked a 600 year old mystery

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL014372920070501

that had been encoded into the walls of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland , the one featured in The Da Vinci Code. The song was carved into the walls of the chapel in the form of geometric shapes that a father-son team — both are musicians and the father is an ex-Royal Air Force code breaker — finally matched to so-called Chladni patterns he recovered melody was paired with traditional lyrics (translated into Latin) and recorded; the result can be heard in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2Dg-ncWoY

The video also gives a visual representation of how the engravings match up to the cymatic patterns."

"'The music has been frozen in time by symbolism... [The carvings] are of such exquisite detail and so beautiful that we thought there must be a message here.' The two men matched each of the patterns on the carved cubes to a Chladni pitch, and were able finally to unlock the melody."