On the tenor sax there are exactly 32 steps — if you go by semitones — between the lowest playable note, the A♭2, to the highest, the E5. If you count the notes between these two extremes (which I have), you will find that there are exactly 32 steps in the chromatic progression from the former to the latter.
As a computer scientist trained in the arcane arts of computer graphics, I am fascinated by this fact. 32 is a perfect power of 2. In fact, it is two raised to the fifth power.
I feel a deep yearning to create a virtual reality musical piece which expands upon this mathematical tidbit. I do not know whether this desire stems from my love of computer graphics, or my love for my idealized view of the tenor sax.
It might very well be both.
32/seconds/second = the rate of gravity. One of James Joyce’s favorite numbers. Fall, fall, fall.
11 starts again again. Rise, rise, rise.
Ah, nice!