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Flying Dream

Gary Garrett · music · Watch on YouTube

Music theory, synthesis & productionData visualization & information design

What it is

Gary Garrett's stop-motion animation of his song Flying Dream, with notes arranged on a lattice of fifths and major thirds. It shows how harmony looks in just intonation, inspired by Harmonic Experience.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Shared as a beautiful example of lattice-based harmony visualization.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2020

What HN commenters said

  1. “This youtube video is great”

    Video on chord changes and frequencies, with a good blog.

    baddox, 2014-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Musical Scale Generator”

  2. “this beautiful song using it”

    Beautiful song using the lattice concept.

    williamdclt, 2019-03 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Harmopark – Web tool to visually build chords and progressions”

  3. “Definitely worth checking out.”

    Piece composed in untempered just intonation.

    isolli, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Guitar Decomposed: 5. Mutating the Third”

  4. “a visualization I like, that uses 22 notes”

    Visualization using 22 notes per octave.

    elihu, 2020-11 · Recommendation · in “How to create minimal music with code in any programming language”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: just intonation, tonal lattice, music theory, animation, harmonic experience

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