THE VIDEO SHELF · harmony visualization
Flying Dream
Gary Garrett's stop-motion animation of his song Flying Dream, with notes arranged on a lattice of fifths and major thirds. It shows how harmony looks in just intonation, inspired by Harmonic Experience.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as a beautiful example of lattice-based harmony visualization.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Gary Garrett
- Topic
- harmony visualization
- Format
- music
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2020
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From the original HN conversations
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It looks like there's no problem with just swapping frequencies as you change chords. This youtube video is great, as is the guy's blog: [VIDEO]
baddox on Hacker News · 2014-09
In Musical Scale GeneratorVery interesting, I'll definitely play with it for a bit! I came across this concept of "lattice" about a year ago too, with this beautiful song using it: [VIDEO] A couple of comments: - Why select notes by right-clicking rather than left-clicking? - When building …
williamdclt on Hacker News · 2019-03
In Show HN: Harmopark – Web tool to visually build chords and progressionsGary Garrett is a musician who works with just intonation (or, as he calls it, untempered music) [0]. Below is a link to a piece he composed [1]. Definitely worth checking out. [0] [LINK] [1] [VIDEO]
isolli on Hacker News · 2020-05
In Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third
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