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Visualizing “The Art of Fugue”

52 points by archagon 4y ago

johndoe0815 4y ago
There's another visual representation of four bars (52 to 55) of Bach's e-flat-minor fugue made into a sculpture by Bauhaus artist Henri Nouveau: https://nrw-skulptur.net/skulptur/hommage-a-j-s-bach/ https://nrw-skulptur.net/skulptur/hommage-a-j-s-bach/
bananamerica 4y ago
That's one of my all time favorite albums. The visualization seems cool. I'll have to give this a listen/watch.
- Synaesthesia 4y ago
  What's great about it is it can be performed by any instrument or combination of instruments. One of my fave is a guitar quartet.
voicedYoda 4y ago
I also enjoy Dan Tepfer's visualizations of audio and audio decay. This was his tiny desk concert: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc
Daub 4y ago
Fascinating stuff. I teach motion graphics and the first assignment I give my students is to create an abstract animation that responds to a given piece of music. I have long ago given up on requiring students to produce storyboards. I find them to be restrictive and unable to effectively address the transitions which are at the heart of a motion graphic. Instead I require them to produce single graphical ‘synestheticle representation’ of the music, and from that develop the animation. These graphics bear a strong similarity to the work shown in the O.P. I shall certainly be bookmarking it for their consumption.
- archagon 4y ago
  I think you will really enjoy this, if you haven’t seen it already: https://youtu.be/UVWKtXDvr04 https://youtu.be/UVWKtXDvr04 Note that it is entirely hand animated. (The artist is well known for his visual effects animation.)
  - Daub 4y ago
    Thanks. I have not seen it. Will put it on my list.
jacobmartin 4y ago
Found this guy's YouTube channel when I was a kid learning to play the piano, googling my pieces to hear how they sounded. He introduced me to Bach, and I've loved him ever since :)
jesuslop 4y ago
It has taken me ages to start appreciating the subject of Counterpoint. My older me would have seen this videos as a glorified, fantasy piano-roll view. Now I'm bookmarking, in the hope something in OP's site sticks. The full pic would have this horizontal view of the evolution of interwowen colored voices as complemented by the vertical view of functional harmony chords in a cadential ebb and flow.
archagon 4y ago
The Music Animation Machine is a remarkable project that has been going strong (and improving!) for decades, and the entire homepage is delightfully geeky: http://www.musanim.com/all/ http://www.musanim.com/all/ I highly recommend checking out smalin’s channel on YouTube to see it in use: https://m.youtube.com/user/smalin https://m.youtube.com/user/smalin

52 points by archagon 4y ago

There's another visual representation of four bars (52 to 55) of Bach's e-flat-minor fugue made into a sculpture by Bauhaus artist Henri Nouveau: https://nrw-skulptur.net/skulptur/hommage-a-j-s-bach/ https://nrw-skulptur.net/skulptur/hommage-a-j-s-bach/

bananamerica 4y ago

That's one of my all time favorite albums. The visualization seems cool. I'll have to give this a listen/watch.

Synaesthesia 4y ago
What's great about it is it can be performed by any instrument or combination of instruments. One of my fave is a guitar quartet.

voicedYoda 4y ago

I also enjoy Dan Tepfer's visualizations of audio and audio decay. This was his tiny desk concert: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc

Daub 4y ago

Fascinating stuff. I teach motion graphics and the first assignment I give my students is to create an abstract animation that responds to a given piece of music. I have long ago given up on requiring students to produce storyboards. I find them to be restrictive and unable to effectively address the transitions which are at the heart of a motion graphic. Instead I require them to produce single graphical ‘synestheticle representation’ of the music, and from that develop the animation. These graphics bear a strong similarity to the work shown in the O.P. I shall certainly be bookmarking it for their consumption.

archagon 4y ago
I think you will really enjoy this, if you haven’t seen it already: https://youtu.be/UVWKtXDvr04 https://youtu.be/UVWKtXDvr04 Note that it is entirely hand animated. (The artist is well known for his visual effects animation.)
- Daub 4y ago
  Thanks. I have not seen it. Will put it on my list.

jacobmartin 4y ago

Found this guy's YouTube channel when I was a kid learning to play the piano, googling my pieces to hear how they sounded. He introduced me to Bach, and I've loved him ever since :)

jesuslop 4y ago

It has taken me ages to start appreciating the subject of Counterpoint. My older me would have seen this videos as a glorified, fantasy piano-roll view. Now I'm bookmarking, in the hope something in OP's site sticks. The full pic would have this horizontal view of the evolution of interwowen colored voices as complemented by the vertical view of functional harmony chords in a cadential ebb and flow.

archagon 4y ago

The Music Animation Machine is a remarkable project that has been going strong (and improving!) for decades, and the entire homepage is delightfully geeky: http://www.musanim.com/all/ http://www.musanim.com/all/ I highly recommend checking out smalin’s channel on YouTube to see it in use: https://m.youtube.com/user/smalin https://m.youtube.com/user/smalin