"Man" by Libby Reid.Two years ago I posted an article called "The Amen Break and the Golden Ratio" and it was visited by hundreds of thousands of interested people. But the original article is no longer available, although parts of it have been copied onto many websites and is probably cached in various places. I wrote that I'd noticed that the major peaks of the Amen Break seem to form a rhythm approximating the famous Golden Ratio, the proportion which balances the parts with its whole, and found throughout nature (including an ideal human body, according to the ancient Greeks) and in great art and architecture worldwide. But we cannot be entirely sure that it is so in the Amen Break with absolute precision. Comments in various forums ranged from "WOW!" to "The Golden Ratio was found because he wants to find it!" Not so: I don't operate that way. And I don't claim that the Amen Break definitely expresses the Golden Ratio's supreme balance, although it roughly appears to do so. Some discussions were interesting and intellectually invigorating, but I must say what I wasn't very impressed by the (lack of) mathematical knowledge of some commentors who projected their own ignorance of the subject and prejudices into the discussion. Maybe it's just an apparent coincidence or maybe it's like thousands other approximations of the Golden Ratio that are not consciously planned but do appear in human designs based on the refined sensibilities of some artists, architects and designers. But since you came here looking for the article, here, at least, is an image from it showing the waveform of the Amen Break alongside the idealized human body and it's Golden Ratio levels.
"Man" by Libby Reid.
