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Bach and the musical Möbius strip
- elFarto 10y agoAn actual music möbius strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iMI_uOM_fY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iMI_uOM_fY
- jyriand 10y agoIf this seems interesting to you, I would suggest reading: "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567 https://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden...
- mrkgnao 10y agoI think Westworld naming the next episode "The Well-Tempered Clavier" could, somehow, lead to a resurgence in interest in GEB -- lots of people on /r/westworld seem to be interested, for sure! (For one, I've heard that the show's creators have admitted that they are creatively indebted to the book in some ways.)
- jyriand 10y agoI think it might have something to do with the structure of the fugue. > a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
- ThomPete 10y agoWestworld also did some interesting hints to "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes a book that if you haven't read it yet you should. It's up there with GEB.
- edem 10y agoCame here to suggest this book. You were faster.
- mafribe 10y agoRelated is Tymoczko's geometry of musical chords [1] see also [2]. [1] http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html [2] http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/voiceleading.pdf http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/voiceleading.pdf [3] http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/ChordGeometries.html http://dmitri.mycpanel.princeton.edu/ChordGeometries.html
- leephillips 10y agoHe gave an interesting presentation at a recent AAAS meeting in DC - really intriguing ideas. http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/mathematics-meets-music/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/mathematics-meets-mus...
- yowlingcat 10y ago[2] is fantastic. I was just thinking about strategies to voice lead a set of block chords correctly while minimizing overall intervallic distance.