Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere? I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
Chromatone – Visual Music Language
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Re: Chromatone – Visual Music Language
#12C is yellow, C#/Db is red, D is blue, D#/Eb is yellow,...etc
First observation: the notes of each of the three diminished tetrads are monochromatic (their notes all have the same color.)
Then, look at the major minor triads and assign them secondary colors (purple, orange, green) depending upon the colors of their constituent notes.
So, for example the C major and C minor triads are both orange chords. F major and F minor triads are green chords. E minor and E major triads are green chords, etc.
This is a scheme that Tom Glazebrook calls "metaharmony", and he uses it in the context of studying the Barry Harris approach to Jazz, but it's actually isomorphic to Erno Lendvai's "Axis Theory" analysis of the music of Bela Bartok. (The secondary colors correspond to the T, D, and S functions.)
Re: Chromatone – Visual Music Language
#13browser shows this permission popup: chromatone.center wants to control and reprogramme your MIDI devices. [Allow/Block] off-topic: is "reprogramme" a british spelling - dont remember seeing this spelling in a long time.
Re: Chromatone – Visual Music Language
#14Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere? I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
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#15Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere? I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
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#16Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere? I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
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#17browser shows this permission popup: chromatone.center wants to control and reprogramme your MIDI devices. [Allow/Block] off-topic: is "reprogramme" a british spelling - dont remember seeing this spelling in a long time.
Using “reprogramme” in a computation context is very old-fashioned and would be considered nonstandard spelling these days. I suspect this is someone taking BrE localisation too seriously or it’s a non-British person’s idea of what British English is.
Re: Chromatone – Visual Music Language
#18Is there an easy-to-digest overview or even examples anywhere? I see a bunch of pretty deep-dive articles, a long video, a lot of tools, but I can't see a description of how the supposed visual language works yet, or even examples. How does this system represent notes and chords over time?
Re: Chromatone – Visual Music Language
#19browser shows this permission popup: chromatone.center wants to control and reprogramme your MIDI devices. [Allow/Block] off-topic: is "reprogramme" a british spelling - dont remember seeing this spelling in a long time.
I just went ahead and allowed it.
Current best practice is not to ask permissions like that (location, notifications, or programming midi devices) on landing, but to stick them behind an interaction like a toggle or button press.