A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Sunday, March 01, 2009
A Hard Day in Analysis
Here's a physicist's analysis, via FFT, of the opening chord to A Hard Day's Night. (Hat tip Tyler Cowen.) As the pop era's moral equivalent to the "Tristan chord" (an ambiguous event in a work of tonal music which continues to create great puzzlement and a regular stream of authoritative pronouncements), I'm sure music theorists will be busy with this for years to come.
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2 comments:
Is this the one where if you play it backwards you hear a voice saying that John Lennon is dead?
Seems like a long way to go for not a lot...
Excellent work.
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