Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by indigochill on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:01PM
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Music has many different concepts at play, some of which are easier to conceptualize geometrically than others. Waveforms are one, but another visualization that resonated (pun semi-intended) with me was to visualize triads in three dimensions by plotting the pure sine wave of each note of the triad on its own axis as a function of time.
When you plot triads like this, you immediately see that the more harmonic a chord is, the visually simpler its graph is. This is unsurprising to anyone who knows the basics of the math behind music (simple ratios = harmonic, complex ratios = dissonant), but it's striking to actually see it drawn out like that.
I definitely would not say music is one-dimensional. Whether you're considering the interplay between intervals, the movement and manipulation of various emotions and motifs in a piece, or whatever, maybe the thing that strikes me most about music relative to other media is its arbitrary dimensionality.
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by gbh444g on Sunday June 20, 2021 @02:02AM
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Not sure I get the idea about triads. Say the three notes are just sine waves with frequencies 200Hz, 300Hz and 500Hz. What will the graph look like?
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by pgt on Saturday June 19, 2021 @03:13AM
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Music is a graph.
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by RHSman2 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:11AM
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Everything is a graph
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by elevenoh on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:17AM
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Nothing is a graph
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by RHSman2 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:14AM
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Everything is a node
Re:Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
by Datagenerator on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:25AM
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"Absolutely direct experience of the will is impossible, because it will always be mediated by time, but in first-personal experience of volition and the experience of music the thing in itself is no longer veiled by our other forms of cognitive conditioning."