Chord Geometries

[max cooper]

Interesting stuff:

http://music.princeton.edu/~dmitri/ChordGeometries.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...feed-health_ad

[ArcCirDude]

Yes, interesting in a left brain sort of way. However, this statement made me go, "Hmm...": "By showing how compositions of various styles move through his orbifold spaces, says Tymoczko, you can see how different styles of Western music relate to each other and evolve." By "see" he meant literally visualize the relationships. But anyone who has studied the theory of Western music and its history can see (understand) those relationships. For anyone to really grok this visualizer, I suspect that they will have to have a solid education in western music. I personally, as a composer, tend to shy away from anything that sucks the mysterious, intuitive, artistic element from composition. That's why I find things like strict serialism rather boring. (Right brain, that is... I find the technique interesting in a left brain way....) But he admits this at the end of the article when he says, "They might make an O.K. composer good, but they won't make a good composer great."

Maybe he can sell it as an iTunes visualizer..... But I suspect that most modern music will give a rather boring simplistic splotch.

Thanks for the heads up, Max!