New Horizons in Music: Polyrhythms | Loop

Why HN readers recommended it

Commenters recommend it for the mind-blowing connection between rhythm and pitch and as an approachable intro to music theory.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Ableton

Topic

polyrhythms and music theory

Format

talk

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Yeah, it even goes down to the physics of harmonics. There's this absolutely wild video by Adam nealy about how polyrhythms are actually cords. (It's very approachable if you know just a smidgeon of music theory). Highly recommend Adam's channel if you're interested in music/music …

• We're able to recognize simple ratios instantly. The fact is without number the actual digits, we know they instantly simplify into a handful of fractions. That is mind blowing. What's even more mind blowing is Adam Neely's explanation of pitch ratios and how they're related …

• There's a great talk by Adam Neely going into some interesting relations between sound and color: [VIDEO] (timestamp where he starts talking about color, but the whole talk is interesting.)