Tone = Emotional Energy
Color = Conceptual Domain
Pulse = Cognitive Rhythm
A Chord is the atom of RESOL.
Each Chord has 3 parts—each from one of the fundamental dimensions:
Chord = [Tone | Color | Pulse]
This triadic structure lets every Chord feel, mean, and move.
It’s not just a word. It’s:
Now, let’s explore each dimension one by one.
What it is: The emotional force of the Chord.
What it shapes: How the Chord feels to the soul.
Tone is the heartbeat of the Chord.
It encodes the emotional truth behind the idea.
Every Tone carries a specific emotional vibration:
Code | Tone | Emotional Essence |
---|---|---|
T1 | Fierce | urgency, defiance, fire |
T2 | Still | calm, presence, silence |
T3 | Curious | wonder, reaching, spark |
T4 | Hollow | loss, grief, void |
T5 | Blooming | joy, becoming, radiance |
T6 | Binding | groundedness, trust, unity |
T7 | Fractured | confusion, chaos, break |
T8 | Sacred | reverence, awe, elevation |
⚠️ Every Chord must begin with a Tone. This sets the emotional charge of the meaning.
What it is: The domain or field of meaning.
What it shapes: What the Chord is about.
Color gives the Chord context. It answers:
“Is this about truth, time, memory, or transcendence?”
Code | Color | Conceptual Realm |
---|---|---|
C1 | Red | truth, conflict, urgency |
C2 | Blue | mystery, subconscious, depth |
C3 | Gold | clarity, revelation, insight |
C4 | Silver | memory, stillness, reflection |
C5 | Green | connection, nature, growth |
C6 | Black | void, death, forgetting |
C7 | White | purity, potential, emptiness |
C8 | Violet | paradox, transcendence, liminality |
🌈 Color flavors the idea—it adds the domain where the emotion lives.
What it is: The tempo or internal movement of the idea.
What it shapes: How the idea flows in your mind.
Pulse adds time to meaning. It’s the mental rhythm of the Chord.
Code | Pulse | Mental Tempo |
---|---|---|
P1 | Fast | quick strike, immediate |
P2 | Slow | reflective, soaking |
P3 | Spiral | recursive, expanding inward/out |
P4 | Pulse | living, breathing, rhythmic |
P5 | Fractal | layered, self-similar, complex |
P6 | Strobe | fragmented, blinking, flickering |
🧠 Pulse gives a Chord its motion—its cognitive speed and style.
Chord | [Tone | Color | Pulse] | Meaning (Sketch) |
---|---|---|
Krith | [Fierce | Red | Fast] | Sudden truth strike, verbal fire |
Ulom | [Still | Blue | Slow] | Deep meditative mystery |
Bloomen | [Blooming | Gold | Pulse] | Joyful clarity blooming in waves |
Drel | [Hollow | Black | Strobe] | Grief flickering in the void |
Ehlura | [Sacred | Violet | Fractal] | Paradoxical truth in spiral mystery |
A RESOL Chord is a living word. It contains:
Tone = the fire
Color = the terrain
Pulse = the path