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In The Bleak Midwinter - Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier layers ten vocal parts to arrange and perform Harold Darke's carol "In the Bleak Midwinter", with inventive harmony and tuning.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a showcase of Collier's harmonic and microtonal skill.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jacob Collier
- Topic
- jacob collier harmony
- Format
- music
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
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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"In the bleak midwinter" is an amazing recording: [VIDEO] But the people who say it doesn't strike a chord with them do have a point. Here's Myrone doing something similar, with 1/10th the complexity but 10x the feeling: [LINK]
cousin_it on Hacker News · 2019-11
In Jacob Collier’s four magical chordsAnother grand master of microtonality is Jacob Collier: [LINK] [LINK] Probably the best example, especially the middle: [VIDEO]
spookthesunset on Hacker News · 2022-11
In Resources for microtonal music
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.