“In the Hall of the Mountain King was accidentally composed on log/log paper.”
Hahahahahaha. I get this joke. It is very funny. You should probably explain it for the other people who are not so smart as me who is smart.
On a normal scale, the ticks go 1…2…3…4…
on a log scale, ticks go 1…10…100…1000…
Sound and frequency, weirdly, is always in a log scale, you just dont notice it
Time however, usually shouldnt be 😂
You have to know music and math to appreciate this, true.
If you need an explanation I’d say read the intro for log scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_scale
And then listen to https://youtu.be/4nMUr8Rt2AI
And thus the spectrogram was born