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The Coltrane Fractal

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Adam Neely

Adam Neely

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@Dan-ud8hz
@Dan-ud8hz 4 жыл бұрын
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.“ ― Thelonious Monk, Jazz Pianist and Composer
@TiffanyClaireGirl
@TiffanyClaireGirl 3 жыл бұрын
Almost makes me think of certain spiritual patterns (sacred geometry). I have to wonder what the song would look like in terms of vibrations within water for example.
@rl1275
@rl1275 2 жыл бұрын
The same could be said about mathematicians, pretty much everyone I had class with played an instrument or had very serious opinions about music
@lynnpehrson8826
@lynnpehrson8826 Жыл бұрын
@@rl1275 this is a good observation.
@PhobosDDeimos
@PhobosDDeimos 7 жыл бұрын
Adam Neely: the Vsauce of music.
@smallblock3505
@smallblock3505 6 жыл бұрын
Dang it, I was about to say that!
@RenanFelicianoOn
@RenanFelicianoOn 6 жыл бұрын
I expected a "and as always, thanks for watching" at the end
@Photosounder
@Photosounder 5 жыл бұрын
I agree, but in a bad way. Both are hacks and this nonsensical video that's really about a synthesis artifact proves it.
@Bioniking
@Bioniking 5 жыл бұрын
I was thinking just the same thing
@Superstardark
@Superstardark 3 жыл бұрын
Oohwee
@jackreavy
@jackreavy 7 жыл бұрын
2:54 cat arrives in shot 2:58 cat jumps 3:12 cat is asleep 3:18 cats ear twitches 5:08 cat is sleeping in a different place 7:41 cat is shocked 8:05 cat cleans its self
@saam6768
@saam6768 7 жыл бұрын
you could become a legend by doing this to every YT video that has a cat in it. Just sayin.
@ZeroTehShadowz
@ZeroTehShadowz 7 жыл бұрын
this is good information
@martinkrauser4029
@martinkrauser4029 7 жыл бұрын
this should be in the description like dan & mick hasve in their that pedal shows videos
@shermanbaker
@shermanbaker 7 жыл бұрын
..but now watch what happens at 200x speed
@gadjox
@gadjox 7 жыл бұрын
Didn't even notice the cat
@Abejorro97
@Abejorro97 6 жыл бұрын
16x speed: pacman 32x speed: pacman about to drop the beat 64x speed: pacman got a gun, everyone get down!
@badenfitzmaurice9013
@badenfitzmaurice9013 5 жыл бұрын
128x speed: Your windows 98 computer that you use to play pacman crashed.
@leonschumann2361
@leonschumann2361 4 жыл бұрын
aka extratone
@12scolsrud
@12scolsrud 4 жыл бұрын
I laughed wayyy too hard at this
@selphur
@selphur 7 жыл бұрын
This was a very good cat video. The guy in the front talking all the time is a bit annoying though.
@ajadrew
@ajadrew 7 жыл бұрын
2:59.... An essential moment
@csdf-tv1017
@csdf-tv1017 7 жыл бұрын
yes indded sir
@insertname8889
@insertname8889 7 жыл бұрын
selphur ahaha
@micheljanssen9524
@micheljanssen9524 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he truly has a shitty voice!
@freddytapia7873
@freddytapia7873 5 жыл бұрын
I gave you the 1000th like.
@EdgedPixie
@EdgedPixie 6 жыл бұрын
That bit about the wierd chords; the "Howling dominant", the "Hyper leading tone major seventh", and the ""Almost major sixth", just immediately lead me into a deliberately off-key impromptu singing session of John Lennon's "Imagine". It was beautiful.
@NautilusGuitars
@NautilusGuitars 7 жыл бұрын
Man... This is absolutely brilliant and must have taken a TON of work. Thank you for this and congrats on the 200,000 mark!
@20thCenturyPox
@20thCenturyPox 7 жыл бұрын
I often wondered what it must be like for a bird or a squirrel to hear an orchestra in the park, but now I know that they won't hear what we hear. I'm not a trained musician, and all theory is lost on me, but the weaving of real world examples with historical, cultural, even anatomical knowledge makes this one of the best channels I've found. Instant sub.
@JohnHorneGuitar
@JohnHorneGuitar 7 жыл бұрын
I have no idea what to do with this information but it's a lot of fun.
@ttdmax5711
@ttdmax5711 6 жыл бұрын
John Horne This should be a pinned comment on every Adam Neely video
@AlasdairGR
@AlasdairGR 6 жыл бұрын
You can make elaborate shit posts with hidden melodies and songs inside the fractal. You could make the melody of “Resonance” by using MIDI clips of All Star 😂😂
@JespMusic
@JespMusic 6 жыл бұрын
I hope someday y’all can understand the profound truth in this video and apply it to real life situations
@crescentic_arts
@crescentic_arts 3 жыл бұрын
@@JespMusic how to do that
@DavidDiMuzio
@DavidDiMuzio 7 жыл бұрын
Deeeeeeeep, very deep.
@ArnovanZelst
@ArnovanZelst 7 жыл бұрын
180k Coltrane solos per second? Yes please!
@Bebopopotamus
@Bebopopotamus 7 жыл бұрын
Imagine how pretentious that porpoise would be
@ArnovanZelst
@ArnovanZelst 7 жыл бұрын
Bebopopotamus porpentious!
@jeffirwin7862
@jeffirwin7862 7 жыл бұрын
We could make a religion out of this!
@jacobzeroAWESOMEINFINITE
@jacobzeroAWESOMEINFINITE 7 жыл бұрын
Jeff Irwin there is literally a church in San Francisco whose patron saint is john Coltrane. They cover his songs during service
@machielste1
@machielste1 6 жыл бұрын
my left ear would never recover
@dutoitar
@dutoitar 7 жыл бұрын
So if my math is correct. 1 + 1 = 2 E= mc^2 Coltrane Fractal x64 speed = AK47
@Haibrayn42
@Haibrayn42 5 жыл бұрын
and hotel = trivago
@peterhull5538
@peterhull5538 7 жыл бұрын
Really noticed the quality of editing in this one - very slick and appropriately used. Fantastic stuff Adam.
@tonywhitburn
@tonywhitburn 5 жыл бұрын
I love how at 512x it just starts to sound beautiful again. I wish I could sample that part, it’s like the calm after the storm.
@BrunoJMR
@BrunoJMR 7 жыл бұрын
It's not the ear that is calculating the ratios, it's the waves interfering in a short repeating pattern for consonant intervals and long patterns for dissonant ones. A simple integer ratio has a lower common multiple than a more complicated one, which means adding up waves with those frequencies results in a pattern that repeats itself with a smaller period, and the longer that period is, the less consonant the two notes sound when played together.
@ali-om4uv
@ali-om4uv 7 жыл бұрын
thats the basic physics of Beats (acoustics) but the small differences in freq ( 9Hz as in adams example ) are to little to explain the perception of consonance vs dissonance. And this is really not everything that needs to be considered .... try what happens if you use 3 different sources for each frequency, or what happens if you pan one frequency left one center and one right on a stereo system. than move your head or change amplitudes.... :-) ....
@sbingham1979
@sbingham1979 7 жыл бұрын
This is soooooooooooo over my head. Yet somehow I keep listening. Adam, your intellect and understanding of music and things beyond it, or tangential to it, is utterly amazing. Keep on making these great videos on all kinds of things musical, and congrats on more than 200 thousand subscribers, of which I am one!
@NewoNZ
@NewoNZ 7 жыл бұрын
This was very enlightening and opened my mind to how amazing sound and the way we perceive it really is. Thanks!
@prometheusxavier9673
@prometheusxavier9673 7 жыл бұрын
This whole ear calculation thing isn't quite as mysterious as Neely makes it out to be. Sound waves with simple ratio frequencies combine in the air before they ever reach your ear. They make an interference pattern that repeats more frequently and thus makes a smoother sounding sound then frequencies in a complex ratio. Light works differently because, although light behaves physically very much like sound, we perceive it through an entirely different mechanism. Our eyes have three kinds of cones that each pick up a different range of frequencies. Every color we can see is based on just three samplings. That's why screens and printers only need three colors. Because of the very rough way our eyes detect light, there is no way we could detect the interference patterns in light waves, even though they do still exist. If we could though, we might see the colors of some objects undulate over time the way dissonant chords do. You can appreciate how much worse humans are at seeing color than hearing pitch by imagining if you could only hear three notes, and every sound you could possibly hear was just some combination of those three notes at different volumes.
@puellanivis
@puellanivis 6 жыл бұрын
> Only hear three notes… So, when installing cochlear implants, they need to shave a number of the hairs in ones cochlea. They then use electric stimulation to activate those cochlear bands remaining. The very earliest cochlear implants could only give one, two or four or so hearing bands. It produced a marked lack of ability to distinguish a lot of features. And worse, this narrowing of hearing bands was a permanent change, which meant that even as technology got better and could offer more bands, you were already locked into the earlier bands. There are some videos that demonstrate what this would approximately sound like kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaGufIx4oK9sftk
@keithklassen5320
@keithklassen5320 5 жыл бұрын
Came here to say this, you said it way better.
@danieljensen2626
@danieljensen2626 4 жыл бұрын
You're right about light, but wrong about simple ratio interference "repeating more frequently". If you combine two frequencies f1 and f2 in roughly equal amounts you get an envelope frequency of f1-f2, and a carrier of f1+f2. Thats always what you get regardless of the ratio between the two frequencies.
@irokosalei5133
@irokosalei5133 4 жыл бұрын
So would we perceive visual harmonics if our eyes worked the same way as our ears? Also, if everything is made of only three colours does that mean every complicated colour is made of several frequencies, thus a chord of light?
@EebstertheGreat
@EebstertheGreat 3 жыл бұрын
That's not really how sound works. Two waves will always just pass through each other by the superposition principle. They only combine while they are intersecting, and they simply add. It's not that simple ratios are "smoother," it's just that the waveform of a single period is less complex. If the two frequencies have a small gcd (relative to their size), the sum will repeat more frequently, so there is less complexity in a single period just because the period is shorter. The problem with light is just that we have a very poor frequency resolution (3, like you said). Some organisms have many more types of photoreceptors, but none can approach the frequency resolution of the ear.
@wingracer1614
@wingracer1614 7 жыл бұрын
I need the almost major 6th in my life. Then again, I'm so bad at tuning that I probably already play almost major 6ths.
@Duendito
@Duendito 7 жыл бұрын
On guitar, major thirds and sixths sound a bit sharp. Make them "almost" thirds and sixths, and they sound in tune. Oh, intonation!
@alextbuck7
@alextbuck7 4 жыл бұрын
Every time Adam starts to say “midi clips” I keep expecting him to say “midiclorians.”
@metashrew
@metashrew 7 жыл бұрын
The legend says that the almost major 6th is still trying to become an actual major sixth.
@csdf-tv1017
@csdf-tv1017 7 жыл бұрын
to this day, one can only hope...
@skyzenskyluke5880
@skyzenskyluke5880 7 жыл бұрын
Metashrew 😂😂😂 close enough
@GroovDiva
@GroovDiva 7 жыл бұрын
the way he played it in descending keys, though! 😂😂😂😂
@SlyHikari03
@SlyHikari03 5 жыл бұрын
I believe in him. I have high hopes for the major 6th.
@pinodomenico5520
@pinodomenico5520 7 жыл бұрын
Super interesting video,Adam. And rather amazing result from speeding up those notes. Even as an engineer, and part time musician, this is going to take some digesting (a testament to the work you did in presenting it). Thanks for further opening my ears :-)
@rancellovido1068
@rancellovido1068 7 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on hitting that milestone! Though in my opinion you deserve way more than just 200K
@nocapskenzo
@nocapskenzo 7 жыл бұрын
Every journey starts with one (giant) step.
@globulargoblin7492
@globulargoblin7492 7 жыл бұрын
He'll get there... great content on this channel
@2small4theMall
@2small4theMall 7 жыл бұрын
globular goblin Dude blood mountain is so good
@amonst4r
@amonst4r 7 жыл бұрын
meh..he's no Jake Paul
@KingWTFuck
@KingWTFuck 7 жыл бұрын
Blood Mountain is extraordinarily good. I wonder if good ol' Adam Neely listens to The Don.
@luyolomjobo1034
@luyolomjobo1034 7 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, most people, myself included, simply can't understand what you're saying. I'm definitely going to look into this though. Musical fractal...what a brilliant topic of study. We spend so much time using our eyes we forget that we have other senses as well. Who knows what can be discovered by delving deeper into our senses and trying to understand them further. You have stated that we are able to distinguish ratios instantaneously using our ears - who knows what amazing things we might discover and understand by studying smell, or touch, or taste. Who knows, maybe "Textual Fractals", or something along those lines, exist.Your channel is amazing. I was here from last year and took a break for this year. The growth that the channel and yourself have undergone is phenomenal. Please don't stop. By the way, I love your camera angles and video cuts - they really add humour to the your videos and help you drive the point home. Bravo!
@YiZongOng
@YiZongOng 7 жыл бұрын
6:48 from pacman to service in iraq
@shixerz_93
@shixerz_93 7 жыл бұрын
Yi Zong Ong your sense of humour is perfect
@Schimnesthai
@Schimnesthai 7 жыл бұрын
That sound like an aweosome title for a musical album
@csdf-tv1017
@csdf-tv1017 7 жыл бұрын
you must have a really messed up mind mah dude, courage
@jonathanolson772
@jonathanolson772 7 жыл бұрын
Yi Zong Ong what I thought
@danielgrace7887
@danielgrace7887 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, "Pac-Man" that's what I was thinking.
@Erichfiederer
@Erichfiederer 7 жыл бұрын
Adam, just thought I'd let you know that this is also something in imaging called "aliasing". It occurs when you increase the cycles per pixel (or your Modulation Transfer Function) to a certain level. It happens with shutter speed of video capture as well, known as the wagon wheel effect. Its all just aliasing, and is a trait of all wave signal (sound OR light!).
@BogusNoise
@BogusNoise 3 жыл бұрын
I wish this comment was higher and more recognised. This video is flawed and the end result is completely unrelated to the self-similarity used by Bach
@Eta_Carinae__
@Eta_Carinae__ 7 жыл бұрын
Our sound systems aren't able to reproduce Coltrane's solo sped up that fast precisely. At some point it's just going to approximate it to a pulse and you'll just hear those intervals as rapid pulses which approximates a saw-tooth wave. You're not going to be able to hear a genuine musical fractal digitally.
@Reydriel
@Reydriel 7 жыл бұрын
Allan Bartlett At 2048x speed though, I think a lot of the extra detail in the true waveform would be inaudible, as they'd probably require frequency content that goes way above our hearing threshhold.
@xenontesla122
@xenontesla122 7 жыл бұрын
Allan Bartlett I was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it. By changing the tempo instead of speeding up the audio, the waves get cut off at the end of a note. It may be possible to play accurately if the sine waves that make the original solo are at the lowest frequencies with whole number cycles in each note.
@6alecapristrudel
@6alecapristrudel 7 жыл бұрын
I love the transition from a square wave to a sine as it speeds up. And then it just gets faster and faster and those blips can recreate music instead of just pure tones
@cosmicjazzman4817
@cosmicjazzman4817 7 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Thanks for this! It really proves how amazing the mind of a jazz musician is. I have the most recent release of 'GIANT STEPS' and I believe there is 2 or 3 other versions of the tune 'GIANT STEPS'. Anyway,each version you can hear Trane improvising the solo. Each one is different,but has the same concept. Just to think all those chord changes and John is bopping and weaving through the changes at that tempo playing arpeggios perfectly smooth throughout the whole album really!. I love Coltane. I'm a drummer and Coltrane's playing has always been a huge influence on me. His rhythmical playing is like poetry! When he plays 16ths with 32nd notes punctuating his solo's. Groups of 5's and 7's... I love it on drums. But listening to Coltrane is one of my favorite experiences in life
@berxsol
@berxsol 7 жыл бұрын
Laughed my ass off with the little dolphin hahaha, Adam, your videos are better everytime, the craft and the quality really hits me every time
@rush2795
@rush2795 6 жыл бұрын
"their ears would need to be tuned to the same frequency as ours... otherwise it'll just be noise" So my parents are aliens? Hm
@Boredman567
@Boredman567 7 жыл бұрын
I think the perceptual difference between harmonic and non-harmonic tones has more to do with the physics of waves than subconscious mental math. Waves with simple ratios remain consistent in how they interfere with each other, while ones that aren't simple will fall out of sync and become discordant and chaotic.
@zk19103
@zk19103 5 жыл бұрын
Such an impeccably made video, every fits well into each other and though I had to watch twice through to grasp it, the concept of what you were explaining was not massively hard to understand. Yet all I've learnt is the mum from the new Godzilla's method of making the orca.
@franciscot
@franciscot 7 жыл бұрын
Amazing content! Really well thought, researched and well put together.
@gerardnicolau9997
@gerardnicolau9997 7 жыл бұрын
dude, as a mathematician and amateur musician this just blew my mind. thank you so much, you just opened a whole world for me!!
@seanehle8323
@seanehle8323 7 жыл бұрын
Hi Adam! This was a cool idea, but there are a couple reasons that we probably aren't hearing what we'd like to think we're hearing. Nyquist rate and digital sampling rate are probably dominant factors in how the sound is being saved in digital form on a computer, with vast amounts of the original information lost. (Assume 1 kHz * 4k = 4 Mhz, or at least 8 Mbps sampling rate to capture a mid range tone sped up 4k times. Props to you if you did this.) Not only can the human ear not hear frequencies that get shifted over ~20 kHz, the actual speakers aren't designed to produce tones that high, since no one can hear them anyway. Sending the speakers frequencies faster than they can physically oscillate doesn't work.
@NalliKalliOlla
@NalliKalliOlla 6 жыл бұрын
I definitely agree on this; what we are hearing as a result of speeding up the solo is definitely some kind of artifact (as in: the sixth definition here www.dictionary.com/browse/artifact ) . The video has some information, but the conclusions that are jumped into, do not connect correctly with the facts. Firstly, using MIDI for something like this is the first error - a synthesizer, that correctly produces sine wave should be used, and make it to change the sequence of frequencies you give it to in a quicker and quicker succession. This is because it's fairly probable that any MIDI player will make errors given the task at hand, since they are not designed for such a task! But one way to demonstrate this makes no sense, is that playing 200 000 notes in 6 seconds means ~33 333 notes per second, which is above human hearing (which means: this does not make any sense!). We might hear harmonics, but it wont definitely be something that changes ~28 times in a few seconds of time! TL;DR: This does make an interesting video, although it is mostly bogus / baloney. You can always believe you hear what you want to hear!
@petergostelow
@petergostelow 6 жыл бұрын
It does make sense in demonstrating the relationship between rhythm and pitch, and yes, everything about the MIDI maybe true, but the very low rhythms at maybe 20k note intervals will turn into low pitch, which would not happen when played slower to hear the higher rhythms at 10 or 20 note intervals, imho.
@springcreekfarmer
@springcreekfarmer 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for providing such a smart perspective on music and sound. I totally get what you're saying and I appreciate you for articulating it so well.
@skyzenskyluke5880
@skyzenskyluke5880 7 жыл бұрын
6:46 get ready for the Drop still waitin 😢....
@Chickenbone263
@Chickenbone263 6 жыл бұрын
Skyzen Skyluke nah bro that’s packman
@mintmono7675
@mintmono7675 5 жыл бұрын
6:46 from an overheating 32 bit game console to a machinegun in a couple of seconds
@Chimera6297
@Chimera6297 6 жыл бұрын
my mind is all over the wall behind me
@SamraiCast
@SamraiCast 6 жыл бұрын
lord thick nipples underrated comment
@kusugara
@kusugara 5 жыл бұрын
Kurt Cobain humour
@millhouse313
@millhouse313 6 жыл бұрын
Dude this was super exciting. I’ve always said this. Like, we can’t be sure that we are all hearing the exact same thing. And then it dawned on me, perhaps that’s why people like different music. How can some people LOVE one song, and others HATE that song?
@moadot720
@moadot720 6 жыл бұрын
5:29 Oh, I get it! It's called an "Almost Major Sixth" because it's slightly out of tune! 5:32 THAT'S your favorite?!?! I HATE things being so close!!!! Also, the video length is 9:11, my birthday. Yes. MY BIRTHDAY IS 9/11 LOL. 6:28-7:25 1x: I don't know what to say. It's the original song. 2x: Okay, the original was already pretty fast... 4x: What the... 8x: That sounds like a weird sound effect now. 16x: That sounds like a (faster) weird sound effect now. 32x: *helicopter noises* 64x: *more helicopter noises* 128x: Wait, is it changing? 256x: It sounds like... ...a melody? 512x: Okay, HOW did it go from a piano to a beeping instrument? 1024x: Wait! That's... ...The original song slowed down?!?! 2048x: Yep! Definitely the original song. This sounds a bit like video game music! 4096x: Cool! Does this work with every song? Also, the camera messed up, ROFL.
@luxagen3525
@luxagen3525 6 жыл бұрын
I love the visual creativity of this video. Props for all the hard work!
@paapakobe
@paapakobe 7 жыл бұрын
This was b e a u t i f u l. You've resolved/ explored something I stumbled on back in the days when step-programming arpeggios on a Sequential Circuits synth, was exciting. I thought the melody returning was a function of the synth NOT being able to keep track or reproduce all the notes. I also noticed the clicks would have an interesting contrapuntal rhythm when I programmed an odd time signature. I have some questions but I'll read the other comments. Any music & sound nerds like me must have already done so. Thanks for sharing your ideas & explorations
@andrewbuffington5677
@andrewbuffington5677 6 жыл бұрын
I find your channel and it’s content exceptionally educational
@BenJamminKraftbc
@BenJamminKraftbc 7 жыл бұрын
Its like Vsauce.. for musicians!
@Gabriel-jx4or
@Gabriel-jx4or 7 жыл бұрын
I'd consider Adam Neely to be more of an Idea Channel for musicians
@evanbelcher
@evanbelcher 7 жыл бұрын
Gabriel Shaw rip Idea Channel
@agent45267
@agent45267 7 жыл бұрын
he literally said once in a video that he wanted to be kinda of like "vsauce for music"
@busteronlyfullscreenmode
@busteronlyfullscreenmode 7 жыл бұрын
That's unfair Neely didn't sell out to KZbin Red
@Yungblut
@Yungblut 7 жыл бұрын
He is Vsaucing the wrong way, the video doesn't end in a positive thought. It's almost like he's NEGATIVE Vsaucing ;D
@hermeticxhaote4723
@hermeticxhaote4723 6 жыл бұрын
Seriously, excellent work! I've been studying Coltrane for decades, I'm also an occultist and know many people who will find this very interesting
@iamiwasthenaiiamnow6846
@iamiwasthenaiiamnow6846 3 жыл бұрын
I knew Coltrane was an alien, I KNEW IT! There's a double album that I once had with 2 songs on it that sounded so freaking alien. I've been trying to remember the name so I can find it and buy it.
@hakimbrahimi1015
@hakimbrahimi1015 2 жыл бұрын
its all frequency vibration !! only few people mastered this. Watch a video of Nikola Tesla about numbers 369 ( illuminati confirmed again lol )
@iamiwasthenaiiamnow6846
@iamiwasthenaiiamnow6846 2 жыл бұрын
@@hakimbrahimi1015 Ok your user name makes you esoterically authentic so, 2x3x5x7 is NOT exactly 369 but let's get even farther than that. These first 4 primes multiplied together totals 210,... ... ... .... ..... ...... .... wait for it ,waaiiiiiit for iiiiiit!!!!!😁😁😁😁😁😁. Be patient, beeeeee patient,... Meditate before you medicate, medicate before you meditate, say ohmmm, say ooooooo, say ohmmm,say ooooooo, 210 gets you half way to? 210 gets you halfway to? What does 210 get you half to?
@gallofilm
@gallofilm 2 жыл бұрын
@@iamiwasthenaiiamnow6846 ????
@adamchurvis1
@adamchurvis1 6 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, Adam. I hope to learn more of your research. Truly fascinating.
@ArnovanZelst
@ArnovanZelst 7 жыл бұрын
huh, neat
@hermeticxhaote4723
@hermeticxhaote4723 6 жыл бұрын
Holy shit dude, you just became my favorite channel, you have no idea.
@ottolaakso1944
@ottolaakso1944 7 жыл бұрын
I only listen to music with howling dominants now
@localsymbiosis
@localsymbiosis 6 жыл бұрын
..... this is one of the most profound youtube videos I have ever seen. GENIUS
@faselblaDer3te
@faselblaDer3te 7 жыл бұрын
"Hey, check out my music!" => "This is just noise!" - an alien from outerspace - also, my mom
@peterroys923
@peterroys923 4 жыл бұрын
Hi Adam. I have just come across this intriguing video. I am a theoretical physicist, interested in acoustics as a hobby. The phenomenon you demonstrate at 6:40 on the audibility of "Giant Steps" played at several thousand times accelerated speed can be easily explained. It has nothing to do with the physiology of hearing, but is the result of time domain interference inside your PC. In other words, it is a stroboscopic effect or a time-domain moire or a heterodyne effect to which you refer elsewhere. The audio card of your PC periodically samples the signal from the audio signal at a high enough rate so that our ear perceives it as a continuous sound. When the source audio signal is periodic as in this case at a frequency comparable to the sampling rate, the result is the original sound i.e. "Giant Steps" in this case. An auto mechanic uses a stroboscope to measure the rotation speed of the engine shaft. The principle is the same. Although there is nothing mysterious about this effect, I agree with you that the human auditory sensors have fascinating capabilities that we do not understand well. Thanks for your nice video again!
@thisguy8943
@thisguy8943 7 жыл бұрын
This turned into a ted talk and it was good.
@unplaceableface
@unplaceableface 7 жыл бұрын
This Guy I was thinkingV sauce.
@KirkHMiller
@KirkHMiller 5 жыл бұрын
I am honored to be a Coletrane F# of your subscribers! I have learned a ton...
@Captain__Obvious
@Captain__Obvious 7 жыл бұрын
Congrats and awesome video! But the audio we are hearing can't actually contain all the distinct pitches of the musical fractal because of sample aliasing. 272553 notes / 6 seconds = 45425.5 notes per second which exceeds the Nyquist sampling limit of 24000 samples per second for 48Khz KZbin audio. In theory 96Khz FLAC could do it, but you would need to verify the waveform to see what Ableton does in practice and an exceptional soundcard.
@oneonetwothreefiveeight
@oneonetwothreefiveeight 6 жыл бұрын
thank you Captain "Stuff That Not Everyone has thought about except a few people who think about digital audio"
@martinskanal
@martinskanal 6 жыл бұрын
True Captain. Obviously the aliasing did not entirely kill this amazing effect I was not aware of!
@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures
@TacticsTechniquesandProcedures 7 жыл бұрын
Your videos and your instruction are gold. I say this with the highest esteem.
@NotRightMusic
@NotRightMusic 7 жыл бұрын
Besides being interesting and a fun topic of discussion - I'm curious how musicians use this kind of information in their music.
@AdamNeely
@AdamNeely 7 жыл бұрын
it's like how novelists probably won't use technical knowledge of linguistics in their novels. neat stuff, interesting and informative that gives them insight into the tools that they use - but no immediate application whatsoever.
@NotRightMusic
@NotRightMusic 7 жыл бұрын
Glorious answer Adam! To add to that, people love using these techniques in their compositions. Algorithmic composition immediately comes to mind. Composers such as Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Frank Zappa, or Aaron Funk have used these kinds of techniques. I've taught them for years to people of all ages and music abilities at my school. I think it's amazing how well Adam teaches this kind of stuff, and of the amount of people who are interested in it. Still, I'd be interested to hear from those who do apply it to their music.
@ornleifs
@ornleifs 7 жыл бұрын
Stockhausen uses the Rhythm to Pitch idea in Kontakte. www.robertworby.com/writing/notes-on-stockhausens-kontakte-and-oktophonie/
@NotRightMusic
@NotRightMusic 7 жыл бұрын
Love Kontakte!
@TheSquareOnes
@TheSquareOnes 7 жыл бұрын
As a gut reaction, you could write a song that uses fractals in some places but not in others. Then have really varied content running throughout the rest of the piece that when sped up doesn't register as anything other than a thin layer of background noise. Done carefully the end result could be a song that when slowed down enough would play an entirely different song that still recycles and references a lot of the same melodic material and hooks. The other primary details that aren't present at the lower level at all would just become those choppy drones you normally get from slowing things down. It's like progressive ambient music for theory geeks... the downsides being that writing such a piece would likely take an absurd amount of work and almost nobody would ever bother to truly experience the music you end up with since the hidden song would be exceptionally lengthy.
@starframeapocalypse381
@starframeapocalypse381 7 жыл бұрын
Dude your channel is awesome, and by the way that stuff is pretty incredible
@javiceres
@javiceres 7 жыл бұрын
Hey, thanks for achieving my lifetime project pretty much delivered in a 9:11 video and leaving me a pointless human being . But hey, thanks.
@lincolnrossmusic
@lincolnrossmusic 7 жыл бұрын
I am a huge Coltrane fan .. hence the title of this video caught my attention ... wow some amazing stuff here way above my IQ level ... still listening to Adam and other mathematical geniuses discuss the scientific and technical aspects of music is super fascinating .. thanks
@danielfisher898
@danielfisher898 5 жыл бұрын
3:43 was so funny I have no idea why
@stuartdryer1352
@stuartdryer1352 5 жыл бұрын
This is one of the coolest videos I've ever seen on KZbin.
@milamber319
@milamber319 7 жыл бұрын
I love these but i should also point out that there is a fundamental problem with the way you demonstrate this fractal. That is that the notes end up playing faster than the frequency producible by the hardware your playing it on. By the very design of the hardware and software being used your only sampling a faction of the total "waveform" your producing. at 48000Khz you can get a waveform of 24Khz max and even a 27hz A0 at 2048x is 55296Khz. basically even at half that your not getting any of the notes you have laid out being played back at you. Basically while I can't deny your theory is probably right what your hearing with your demonstration is not a fractal of the notes being played its a set of consistent data points created by a sound processing algorithm to approximate what you intend in a way that is physically possible for a speaker to produce. The computer is broad stroking the intended pattern with a much simpler and more constant wave form taking a periodical sample of the original and just playing that. Which in a way still proves your point on rhythms fairly well but its not fractal. TL:DR your brain isn't hearing a fractal as a note. The computer is making a note because it cant play the fractal.
@manuelorrego3314
@manuelorrego3314 7 жыл бұрын
Listen to this guy
@ahuramazda4
@ahuramazda4 7 жыл бұрын
Your reasoning is mostly correct, but the computer isn't making any notes. The range of reproducible frequencies is indeed limited by the sampling rate of the DAW. The lower frequencies that become apparent as pulsing changes in volume (see the 64x and 128x sped up part) move into the lower end of our audible range when the audio is sped up fast enough. There are no limitations on how low of a frequency can be represented by a sampled signal. The higher frequencies are lost as the audio gets faster, but we really aren't missing anything since those frequencies are out of our audible range anyway.
@milamber319
@milamber319 7 жыл бұрын
Well yes. Its the destruction of the high frequency that i was saying also destroys the fractal. As such my point was that the note we perceive is not because our brain and eardrum is doing the simplification (which it probably would regardless.) its because the computer is reducing it down to a cycle of samples that is producible. I was wrong however for a different reason. The method used doesn't speed the tape up it speeds the playing up. So the frequencies stays the same but the notes are payed faster. The point still stands though as the number of samples used for each not becomes too small to be meaningful and you still get a repeating jumble of samples instead of a tune. It effectively reduces it down to a series of pulses instead of notes.
@chrissphinx
@chrissphinx 7 жыл бұрын
weigh in on this Adam?? Why not try slowing down the actual recorded audio instead of slowing down play speed in the DAW?
@milamber319
@milamber319 7 жыл бұрын
actually it might be an interesting experiment. how much of a waveform do you need to hear to recognise it as a note? if the frequency is 50hz and you only play it for .02 of a second (one complete wave) can you tell the difference between that and say 80hz also played that short? itd be interesting to find out.
@MrHarald75
@MrHarald75 4 жыл бұрын
i think the reapearence of the solo melody in high speed replay is not due to the ear and the brain, but a result of the computer using modular arithmetic to single out each n-th amplitude (because it can't really replay above a certain resolution).
@unripetomato4312
@unripetomato4312 3 жыл бұрын
the reason why we can't see light differences as much and why they don't bother us as much is because the light source is constantly changing. whether in bright daylight, in candlelight in a dark cave, or in any one of the millions of colors in the LEDs in your room, we can always see different colors as the same in relation to each other.
@KramerPacer2
@KramerPacer2 4 жыл бұрын
Adam, you are my personal MVP of the internet!
@BAYGE
@BAYGE 6 жыл бұрын
At 2:54 I cracked up when he said the John Coltrane solo was a little bit harder to put together than all star (A traditional jazz standard for All star) SOMEBODY
@BellXllebMusic
@BellXllebMusic 2 жыл бұрын
I subscribed because of this video. I love it when people explain music from a scientific point of view instead of just "feeling"
@sleepingdogkungfu9326
@sleepingdogkungfu9326 4 жыл бұрын
If you think about this fractal idea as related to sight rather than sound: you get a good example looking at fan or helicopter blades - I'd like to see how the 'look of reverse spin direction when speeds are changed' comes into play audibly. Please investigate this if you have time.
@MistahShootrES
@MistahShootrES 7 жыл бұрын
Your editing makes the video LIVE
@Sixela963
@Sixela963 7 жыл бұрын
9:11 long illuminati confirmed in video I think Adam Neely is hiding things
@anthonynichols9224
@anthonynichols9224 6 жыл бұрын
Sixela963 “9:11” so Illuminati and 9/11 are connected 🤔
@r.o.s3910
@r.o.s3910 5 жыл бұрын
@@anthonynichols9224 precisely
@AudioReplica2023
@AudioReplica2023 6 жыл бұрын
You have some incredible material to watch. Science and music ...2 topics I really enjoy and could be hearing for hours . Subscribed.
@TheSuperMarioBros2
@TheSuperMarioBros2 7 жыл бұрын
I gotta try this
@jazzerson7087
@jazzerson7087 7 жыл бұрын
"Crusty old jazz man" LOL. Very impressed by Adam's knowledge of the science of music, most of us would be clueless on this, let alone be able to make a great video on it!
@veot.2869
@veot.2869 6 жыл бұрын
6:48 *So that's why the game Pacman was so freaking popular!!! All those coins I spent as a kid!!!!* 🤣😄🤣😄😃
@ijobrien3
@ijobrien3 5 жыл бұрын
This is hands-down the coolest thing I have ever seen!
@marselmusic
@marselmusic 6 жыл бұрын
wow a year later you have like 162.5% more subs... congrats man :)
@cbobschloss
@cbobschloss 2 жыл бұрын
Best 200k subscriber special ever
@olivia-qq1rd
@olivia-qq1rd 5 жыл бұрын
well now i know why people in medieval times hated the 3rds lol
@OUTSS1
@OUTSS1 7 жыл бұрын
This is my favourite video of yours, so interesting and Coltrane is life yo.
@MrGuitarguitarguitar
@MrGuitarguitarguitar 7 жыл бұрын
My brain... Not just the content, but the fact that it's coming form a bass player...
@fmplautus
@fmplautus 7 жыл бұрын
Quebec City, Canada
@AslanW
@AslanW 4 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this 200k subscriber video when it was first uploaded and now Adam has about 980k subscribers. Can't wait for the 1 mil!
@dawsonbaker5135
@dawsonbaker5135 6 жыл бұрын
Adam Neely, I'm slightly concerned here that the carrier frequencies in the "fractal" are lost in the encoding. Of course, everything you say about taking signals and then speeding them up to make a fractal such that we have a sound at the carriers we want (the notes) come back after rescaling is correct. However if you take a A at 440 Hz which lasts enough cycles that the ear can recognize it and then speed up the triggering of the MIDI synthesizer by a factor of 4096, you end up with the whole audio signal being dominated by the transients of the notes clicking on and off (ASDR envelope) rather than any of the harmonic content of the actual notes. In other words you just manually created a wavetable (which is what you said) but the actual content of the fractal should be completely gone within only a few octaves of magnification: you should only be able to observe a few octaves of the pattern and the rest is physically not there. A visual analogy is rendering the Mandelbrot set on a computer screen. There are only so many pixels so we can only observe self similarity at a dynamic range
@telaferrum
@telaferrum 5 жыл бұрын
I'm curious about what you intend to convey here, because the increased sampling rate and oscillator don't address the issue of the first half. The wave remains dominated by the envelope. I also agree factually with everything you said, though my perspective is different in that this video is already exactly what I envision a "fractal" (pedantic point that not all self similar things are fractals) piece of music should be. I wonder whether there was an actual envelope to speak of as opposed to something all sustain with no attack decay or relase, but even that leaves one with the question of whether a fraction of a cycle of a sine wave in a pedantic sense still counts as that note. I'm of the opinion that for the purposes of a ridiculous endeavor like this, it counts, because I just don't know what else a note played at over 4 thousand times normal speed can be defined as. Seems the only other option is that notes just don't exist at that scale like Adam talks about in the fastest music video, but that theoretical approach doesn't allow for something like this. With sampling rates, while something more physically accurate would take this ti the next level, I'm also happy either way since human ears would still perceive the exact same sound. The point of the standard sample rate after all is that anything higher than the Nyquist rate would only record frequencies higher than human perception. It's the abstract philosophical position that the goal of digital audio in this case is to accurately record and reproduce sounds as phenomena perceived by the human ear, as opposed to the goal of accurately creating the waves of air pressure as a physical phenomenon without regard for human perception.
@FUBARGunpla
@FUBARGunpla 7 жыл бұрын
Not only did this blow my mind it made me subscribe, I've been playing guitar for over 16 years and this came out of left field haha so interesting
@sentientcactimedia6490
@sentientcactimedia6490 7 жыл бұрын
Coltrane brought me here
@ethanlocke3604
@ethanlocke3604 4 жыл бұрын
*you rode the Coltrain here
@panjandrum.conundrum
@panjandrum.conundrum 4 жыл бұрын
ask him to come in next time
@noelbeltran2651
@noelbeltran2651 3 жыл бұрын
The cat appearance wins, great info brother. Thank you for your divine energy
@ayan8233
@ayan8233 6 жыл бұрын
Why didn't this guy change his name to 'Vsauce4 Adam Neely'
@googleuserl2451
@googleuserl2451 7 жыл бұрын
Best physics-based music theory lesson ever! Thanks so much, really helping with my thesis, thanks again!
@guystryche
@guystryche 7 жыл бұрын
but is it really our ears doing the work here? dont the notes get compressed by the program you are using already?
@davidmockbro
@davidmockbro 7 жыл бұрын
Ohh, good point.
@RupeeRhod
@RupeeRhod 7 жыл бұрын
Regardless your brain performs the same temporal compression. It's actually one of the things that mp3 compression types rely upon, that our hearing has blind spots so to speak.
@JellyFlavoredGerman
@JellyFlavoredGerman 7 жыл бұрын
Yep. Despite what vinyl purists will tell you, we hear things digitally.
@embeddedgirl
@embeddedgirl 7 жыл бұрын
It's still mixed via the DAW but Ye you have a good point
@CassBoPeep
@CassBoPeep 7 жыл бұрын
@paul love Yeah, well I still jerk off manually.
@PepekBezlepek
@PepekBezlepek 3 жыл бұрын
this is one of those videos that really changes your thinking, now after 2.5 years it still surprised me
@ddcddc_
@ddcddc_ 5 жыл бұрын
Σ 1/k. The harmonic series
@sprgeorge333
@sprgeorge333 6 жыл бұрын
I have not seen anything so mind blowing in a LONG time!
@DragonboltBlastter
@DragonboltBlastter 6 жыл бұрын
6:47 Pac-man 😉👻👻👻
@benevolentsun
@benevolentsun 5 жыл бұрын
06:52 WW2
@Dimitar_Genov
@Dimitar_Genov 7 жыл бұрын
Awesome production quality man! Keep going!!
@Alex_Khouri
@Alex_Khouri 7 жыл бұрын
Great video Adam, as always! But it seems like the audio and video get out of sync at around 4:42, and the dichotomy progressively gets worse as the video progresses (it might start earlier, but I'm not sure). It could just be my phone, but I don't think so because other videos seem fine.
@charlesgaskell5899
@charlesgaskell5899 7 жыл бұрын
No, it isn't just your phone... :-) My guess is a mismatched frame rate between the video as shot and the video as uploaded to KZbin (or possible mismatched audio rate)
@esclrocks
@esclrocks 7 жыл бұрын
On my phone too.
@kittenm4ster
@kittenm4ster 7 жыл бұрын
my phone too, but even a little earlier than the time you mentioned
@larrytravis1175
@larrytravis1175 7 жыл бұрын
Like the video but it goes out-of-sync on my iMac as well.
@jgmarraras
@jgmarraras 6 жыл бұрын
Hi Adam, Really nice video. I'm learning A LOT thanks to your channel, so, thank you Btw your F A N C Y M A T H was pretty neat, but i have a waaaay easier (at least for me) method for you to find the twelve semitones ratios: 1. Pick up your bass. 2. Measure the entire lenght of one of your strings (from the nut to the bridge saddle. We'll call this number Y) 3. Measure the lenght *from the nut to X fret (if you measure the octave, for example, you'll see it's roughly half of the total lenght of the string; if you measure the fifth, you'll get roughly two thirds...). We'll call this number X', since we used X for the fret 4. Divide the total lenght with that number: Y/X'. Or leave it as a fraction. 5. Simplify. This is how i did it... just for science's sake. Cheers! Edit: *from that fret to the bridge saddle
@orlandogrant5182
@orlandogrant5182 6 жыл бұрын
6:53 Coltrane's solo seems to be turning into a machine gun...
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