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Flying Dream

Gary Garrett · 18.2K views · 2012-10-28 · 3:47

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Overview

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.

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Shared as a beautiful example of lattice-based harmony visualization.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2014–2020

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Music theory, synthesis & productionData visualization & information design
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just intonationtonal latticemusic theoryanimationharmonic experience

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baddox · 2014-09 · Strong recommendation

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]

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elihu · 2020-11 · Recommendation

For ii, I find it helps to add 10:9 to the list I gave earlier, I just omitted it to stay within the familiar framework of 12 notes-to-the-octave. 12 really isn't enough, though, in a lot of cases. Here's a visualization I like, that uses 22 notes: [VIDEO] Speaking of large-number EDOs, some people I know locally are doing guitar conversions to 41-EDO. The trick that seems like it absolutely shouldn't work but it does is to omit half the frets, so that only half of the notes are available on each string. [LINK]

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isolli · 2020-05 · Recommendation

Gary 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]

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