[HN Gopher] Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)
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       Peer Gynt quilt, Part 1 (2021)
        
       Author : ColinWright
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2024-09-12 07:56 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | pavel_lishin wrote:
       | I am very glad that this sort of content survives on the modern
       | web.
       | 
       | I should start documenting my hobbies a bit. I have a decently
       | scaled (1 inch = 5 ft) model of the Redbrands' Hideout from Lost
       | Mine of Phandalver sitting 75% completed behind me - I really
       | should have taken more pictures of the process.
        
       | bloopernova wrote:
       | Good lord the work that went into this is humbling.
        
       | theoperagoer wrote:
       | This classical music loving computer scientist is blown away.
       | Amazing project!
        
       | filoeleven wrote:
       | Very cool! I laughed when you realized you had to toss the circle
       | of fifths. I suspected that was coming due to an experience of my
       | own.
       | 
       | In a college Music Theory I course, we had to choose and analyze
       | a piece of orchestral music; the only rule was that it had to be
       | from before 1900. I chose Anitra's Dance, since I've always liked
       | Grieg and knew it well. In short, it took me a fair amount of
       | guesswork, some reading up on Romantic techniques, and a hell of
       | a lot of colored pencils to mark it up. It looked like a Lisa
       | Frank notebook cover.
       | 
       | When I presented my work to the prof, she said two things. First,
       | she was pleased that I'd gone beyond what the course had taught
       | us in order to figure out how to analyze it. Second, that she's
       | changing her rule and disallowing romantic composers for that
       | exercise from then on.
       | 
       | It was interesting to discover that the piece has so much going
       | on harmonically, because it doesn't _sound_ like it's doing
       | anything particularly weird.
        
       | re wrote:
       | This is very cool; I'm a huge fan of creative visualizations of
       | music. I would love to see an animated version of the quilt image
       | that is synced to music and highlights each piece of the quilt
       | corresponding to the current measure. I was eventually able to
       | understand enough of how the musical features of Anitra's Dance
       | corresponded to the quilt design elements to be able to do that
       | for the Part 1 quilt, but it took me a fair bit of time, and I
       | think a guided version might be more accessible to people with
       | less music experience to help them grok the relationship between
       | music and quilt.
        
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