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Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by zoul on Friday April 14, 2017 @05:40AM (#14113475)
Much more interesting (IMHO) is the Giant Steps animation by Michal Levi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh6WTAHKYTc

It perfectly shows the structure of the music. The later music video One (set to music of Jason Lindner) is also beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qypqwcrO3YE

Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by cbennett on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:29AM (#14114319)
Thats insanely beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!

I have a mild case of synesthesia and this is one of the closest things I have seen/heard (:) ) that comes close-ish to capturing how I see/feel when I experience great music.

Of course, I was not surprised to see the creator of the video list a similar motivation in his caption for the upload.

Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by bsaul on Friday April 14, 2017 @07:35AM (#14113837)
Don't understand the downvote. The first video may seem arbitrary to people not familiar with jazz theory but it's a really good representation of the structure of one of clotrane's most emblematic song. Thanks for sharing !
Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by randy909 on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:59AM (#14114827)
The downvote wasn't me but I'll agree that this doesn't seem much more related to the music than any visual synced to the tempo. Coltrane's drawing captures a system that could be used by other musicians to create new musical ideas or theories. They're very different things so the video seems off-topic to me.
Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by meggar on Friday April 14, 2017 @09:19AM (#14114276)
I still haven't figured out how to play over Giant Steps changes, although shredding through augmented scales has about a 50% success rate.
Re:John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematic... by InitialLastName on Monday April 17, 2017 @11:54AM (#14131828)
The fun thing about Giant Steps is that if you hold any note for long enough, eventually it will resolve correctly.