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Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review
Visualizing Bach
Alexander Chen’s Baroque.me captures and visualizes the first prelude from JS Bach’s Cello Suites.
As Chen explains:
I created eight strings, as the Prelude’s natural phrasing is in groups of eight notes. The orbiting nodes pluck the strings, like a rotating music box. You can also grab and throw the nodes off track, and watch the system slowly regain its rhythm.
A harp is built around string length, with strings shortening as they ascend in pitch. This piece behaves like an impossible harp, as strings morph to the needed lengths.
The looping, eight-note pattern is something we see all the time in grid-based drum sequencers. Bach’s Prelude is actually very grid-like as well. At every moment, the piece shows a visual snapshot of an arpeggio. It shows which notes change from bar to bar, and which stay the same.
Classical notation is convenient and concise code. But visually, it’s completely disconnected from any actual physical characteristics of sound. String lengths, on the other hand, are visual representations of the frequencies they produce.
Baroque.me isn’t just a video though. Visit the site and you can interact with the strings and play something yourself.
H/T: O’Reilly Radar.
This is pretty damn cool
(Source: brotips)
Typography poster design
by ink insurgent.
why is this so amazing.
(Source: akehime)
Why pandas are black and white
I um started tearing up
FUCK I NEED THIS ON MY BLOG
This is beautiful animation.
Sad panda.
This is absolutely gorgeous
don’t worry panda, that is what makes you beautiful!! QAQ
; A ; OGODS THIS IS ALL WAYS OF GORGEOUS OTL
Sad panda. ; _;
LOL PANDAAAA you can be friends with penguin!
九寨沟01 (by xiu×5)
guru:
Cigarettes shrink dicks. (If tobacco companies can lie, then so can we. —Citizens for a smoke-free world.)
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
Changing Education Paradigms presented by Sir Ken Robinson.
I wish this guy taught here..
“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
