Blur: On the Fibonacci Sequence and Mars

by kate | March 14, 2006 at 10:05 pm

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This is such a strange story! I can't tell what is more bizarre - Blur basing a riff on the Fibonacci Sequence or the fact that one of their songs has been somehow adopted for use by the Mars space probe. Regarding the former -I just didn't know Blur was into that. I didn't know the space program was into that either! Is it like a giant ringtone? Anyway I also like it when Alex says that science has a "massive image problem" and that it "faces a sludge of apathy".

Mars explorer Beagle 2's call-sign, a "tune" composed by members of the pop group Blur, sounds like a simple arrangement of ascending notes.

But there is more to it than that. Bass guitarist Alex James explains that the nine-note scale was based on a "Fibonacci sequence" - a mathematical pattern that re-occurs throughout nature