Music, Illustrated
Art, analysis, audio.
14 Dec 2011
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My friend Sandy used nedwaves graphics for the opening and closing credits on his documentary for Brookline Access Television, Never 2 Late 2 Play.  The film follows a group of jazz
musicians at the John Payne Music
School, many of whom started (or re-started) playing music as adults.
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28 Sep 2011
 Pure tones are an abstraction-- all real-world sounds have bandwidth. Bells make nearly-pure narrow sounds; drums make wide ones. How do we measure interval ratios of notes with width? |
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26 Sep 2011
New WorkI managed to put a couple of pieces together for this year's Punto y Raya festival, and they took this one:  |
23 Jan 2011
Frequency Range This is a vertical
number line, labelled in seconds, showing event
durations. At the bottom are long-lasting musical patterns (sets,
concerts); at the top are quick events-- also called notes.Formally, the chart title is "Duration of events which, if repeated, humans can distinguish". We're aware of lots of repeating patterns: with 100s of repeats per second as notes; 100s per minute as rhythm; 100s per hours as verse. The leftmost column is octaves (frequency doublings) away from 1 second. I suppose it could be extended for ultra-long pattern repetitions, like "the radio played this song yesterday" or "this restaurant hasn't changed the soundtrack in months!". Fun fact: the range shown is almost the same as the Richter scale, since 33 octaves=10 Richters. (10 octaves = 2^10 = 1024 ~= 1000 = 10^3 = 3 Richters) Also: this chart covers the range (10^-5) seconds to (10^4)s. A 2nd page would cover 10^4 to 10^13. A year is 32x10^6 seconds. A 3rd page would cover 10^13 to 10^22. The age of the universe is 400x10^15 seconds. 8.5x11 72dpi version-- slightly better looking. |
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