Alan Boyle

Guitar,Bass,Bodhran& song,Coppersmith by trade.Writing on dreams, synchronicity and the edge of Music & Art around Dublin & Leinster

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

In 1619, Kepler found the planets circle the Sun in the same ratios as musical intervals. Mars moves 2:3, a perfect fifth. So I mapped a song onto the solar system: me playing "Fisherman's Blues", chords as planets 🌞🪐
A tribute to @WaterboysMusic #MusicOfTheSphere

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

Mike Scott of The Waterboys gave my Chord Orbits "Fisherman's Blues" the thumbs up 👍✌️
Chord Orbits pictures a song's chords as planets orbiting the Sun, inspired by Kepler's music of the spheres.
Try it with your own song's chords 🌞🪐
https://t.co/0sfqXjevaq

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

@MickPuck @WaterboysMusic Thanks Mike, nice to get feedback. I've been playing your song in pubs all over Ireland for years, and it always gets a great response. As above, so below 🌞🪐

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

In 1619, Kepler found the planets circle the Sun in the same ratios as musical intervals. Mars moves 2:3, a perfect fifth. So I mapped a song onto the solar system: me playing "Fisherman's Blues", chords as planets 🌞🪐
A tribute to @WaterboysMusic #MusicOfTheSphere

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

Helvick harbour, Co Waterford today me and the crew started installing the black aluminium and wall cladding to 4 Pod apartments. Amazing scenery

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

5/ The music of the spheres goes back to Pythagoras. Musicians have been chasing it ever since. I might write a song this way. 🎸

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

1/ In 1619 the astronomer Johannes Kepler worked out that the planets "sing". Each one's speed around the sun, fastest to slowest, makes a musical interval. 🪐

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

4/ So I built a little page where you can type in any chord progression and watch your song travel round the planets. Try Fisherman's Blues or the twelve-bar blues: 👇
https://t.co/0sfqXjevaq

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

Trees live for centuries. We pass through. Maybe the forest remembers us."

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

1/ Walking in an ancient woodland, I had the feeling I was walking on top of a huge brain. 🧠🌲

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

In Hermetic philosophy : as above, so below. The brain in the skull, mirrored in the forest on the earth ☿

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

@MasterNumber I found I had to get very active when I gave up alcohol 4 years ago , I can actually get a lot more done without alcohol and actually have more frequent peak experiences

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

Did a gig in Eblana Club in Dun Laoighire on Monday night, first gig, doing 70s , 80s,90s covers , nice reception from the audience, check out the promo video below

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

Working on an old house roof renovation house was built in 1740s in Kilcullen Co Kildare Ireland , we are replacing the old copper valleys , this is a video of soldering the copper joints

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

@RobLooseCannon The Afro spot in temple bar back in the 80s had a great indie goth nightclub

[Alan Boyle @AlanBoyleMusic]

@XMartinsMusicX Joe stummer was a grave as well