27.10.11 - DAY 300 - CCC

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Firstly this one keeps with a spooky / unsettling / horror theme, since we're getting closer to Halloween.

Secondly, here are a bunch '300' related elements to this track:

• It's 300 BPM
• It has 3 instruments, (guitar, synth 'piano' and synth strings) each one plays 10 notes and is layered 10 times (3 x 10 x 10)
• It changes motif every 300 beats (which is also the time it takes the above instruments to play their 10 notes)
• It is 300 seconds long (5 minutes)
• It is centred around a 300 hz tone.
• 300 is a triangular number, (apparently) the sum of all positive integers up to 24. So the structure of this song is arranged into the shape of a triangle.
• On the master channel there's a reverb effect with 300 m/s decay time and an echo effect with a 300 m/s delay time.
• The first 300 words of the plot description of the movie 300 are read out over the music, while 300 m/l of cool water is sipped.

Aside from all this ridiculousness, I've added an extra guitar track and two tracks of percussion to fill things out a bit.

Other fun facts about the number 300 here: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/numbers/Num201_500.html

300 is a triangular number, that is the sum of all positive integers up to 24.
is the largest possible score in bowling.

= 22 x 3 x 52

= 149 + 151 (sum of twin primes)
= 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31 + 37 + 41 + 43 + 47 (sum of consecutive primes)

300 m/s is the speed of the sound in the air.

Different late Roman notations of number 300:
CCC, or XVxx, or IIIc.

All human beings are born with 300 bones, but adults only have 206 because some fuse together naturally.

The Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of300 Greek Soldiers to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 times as large. The "Three Hundred" (οι τριακόσιοι) was the name given to those Spartans who fought to the death at the Battle of Thermopylae.

"Scovilles" are the number of units of water needed to render a unit of pepper ‘untingly’ to the human tongue. For instance, habanerosare the hottest chili peppers and rate around 200,000 - 350,000 Scoville units; that is, 1 cc of habanero chili after being diluted in 300 liters of water still gives the feeling of hotness!

Enjoy

Cheers ^_^