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Musical Sigils

Phrase → HEX → mod 12 → note. Meaning translated into glorious computational debris.

Phrase or thought

Tempo140 BPM

Note length0.18 sec

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Character sigil

Each character is converted from Unicode code point to HEX, reduced into 0–11, then mapped from C to B.

Glyph

Decimal

Hex

Mod

Note

Word sigil

Each word becomes one value by adding its character code points together, then reducing that total into the same 12-note field.

Word

Decimal sum

Hex

Mod

Note

Rule used: value mod 12, which is the same as subtracting 12 until the result is between 0 and 11.

Note map: 0 = C, 1 = C♯/D♭, 2 = D, 3 = D♯/E♭, 4 = E, 5 = F, 6 = F♯/G♭, 7 = G, 8 = G♯/A♭, 9 = A, 10 = A♯/B♭, 11 = B.

Word rule assumption: a word’s characters are summed first, then reduced. That makes each word a single note-sigil rather than a hidden run of letters.