[Silence]
[Arrangement: Funk-rock groove, clavinet, synth bass, Hammond organ, layered vocal harmonies, playful call-and-response]
[Intro]
What’s your color?
(What’s your view?)
What’s your signal?
(Coming through?)
Sure your system
(Leaves a clue)
So tell me now…
(What’s your noise hue?)
[Verse 1]
Some folks like it
(Random and bright)
No memory
(From day to night)
Every moment
(Stands alone)
A scattered pattern
(All its own)
Equal power
(At every scale)
No favorite frequency
(In the tale)
[Pre-Chorus]
One step forward
(No looking back)
No memory stored
(Along the track)
[Refrain]
I’m asking you
(What’s your noise hue)
Do you think
(Pink)
Or you said
(Red)
Or not quite…
(White)
I’m asking you
(What’s your noise hue)
What do you see
(In variability?)
[Verse 2]
Then comes red
(Moving slow)
Carrying yesterday
(Wherever it goes)
Tiny changes
(Accumulated)
Future states
(Related)
Ocean currents
(Hold the heat)
Deep-time memory
(Beneath our feet)
The past keeps whispering
(Into today)
Guiding tomorrow
(Along the way)
[Pre-Chorus]
One step forward
(Remembers two)
The future depends
(On what you’ve been through)
[Chorus]
Noise hue
(Choose your view)
White like static
(Coming through)
Noise hue
(Choose your view)
Red like memory
(Holding true)
[Verse 3]
Pink stands somewhere
(In between)
Not too random
(Not too clean)
Partly chaos
(Partly design)
A balance stretching
(Across time)
River systems
(Rainfall too)
Nature often
(Prefers this hue)
Long-term patterns
(Short-term surprise)
A compromise
(Before your eyes)
[Bridge]
White says:
(Start anew)
Red says:
(Remember what you do)
Pink says:
(Maybe both are true)
Depending on
(Your point of view)
[Instrumental]
[Organ Solo]
[Clavinet Groove]
[Bass Breakdown]
[Final Refrain]
I’m asking you
(What’s your noise hue)
Do you think
(Pink)
Or you said
(Red)
Or not quite…
(White)
I’m asking you
(What’s your noise hue)
A spectrum of chance
(Flowing through)
I’m asking you
(What’s your noise hue)
Nature’s orchestra
(Playing for you)
[Outro]
This signal
(Leaves a trace)
This process
(Finds its place)
From random sparks
(To oceans blue)
The world is colored
(By its noise hue)
About the Song: Types of Stochastic Noise
Stochastic processes are often classified by their spectral properties, or “color,” which describes how variance is distributed across time scales.
White Noise
White noise consists of completely uncorrelated random values. Each time step is independent of the previous one, and the system has equal power across all frequencies. It represents pure randomness without memory.
Red (Brown) Noise
Red or Brown noise exhibits strong temporal correlation. Changes are incremental and the system retains memory of its previous state. This type of noise is often used to represent slow, integrated processes such as ocean heat uptake or deep climate memory.
Pink Noise
Pink noise lies between white and red noise. It balances short-term variability with long-term structure and is frequently observed in complex natural systems, including hydrological variability and certain atmospheric processes.
From the album “Unwritten“