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Well-known YouTube musician Bill Wurtz made this video where he takes a snippet of Paul McCartney talking in an interview and plays chords under it to match the pitches at which he's talking. An enterprising youtubesman named Jonah Myers then took a video of Bill Wurtz talking in an interview and played chords under it to match the pitches at which he was talking. Quite an entertaining idea. Jonah Myers's Youtube channel has lots of excellent original music on it as well -- he hasn't uploaded in a while, but give it a listen!!
[Update: as of 2023/12/14, the channel and its videos appear to be down, and the videos aren't archived on wayback, so I've tagged this #dead-link. :( Hopefully they will make a return at some point...]
[Update: as of 2023/12/14, the channel and its videos appear to be down, and the videos aren't archived on wayback, so I've tagged this #dead-link. :( Hopefully they will make a return at some point...]
Xenharmonic Wiki
A wiki discussing various musical tuning systems and intervals outside the traditional 12-tone system. Some of these have really interesting sounds and sometimes they actually sound better in certain ways than the standard Western tuning system. I mostly just like to go to the pages for strange intervals (like 8/7) and listen to the audio samples to hear how they sound.
Like KoB | 7 tone Equal temperament 7-tET 7EDO
A jazz song composed with 7 tones to the octave, rather than the usual 12. It has a surprisingly mellow feel — the harmony is dissonant in a way our ears aren't used to, but it works well in a jazz context.
I definitely recommend checking out 5 hideya's other videos as well, especially this one where they write short snippets dividing the octave into every number from 1 to 11 notes.
I definitely recommend checking out 5 hideya's other videos as well, especially this one where they write short snippets dividing the octave into every number from 1 to 11 notes.
I Was On The Moon
A really interesting animation of the song "I Was On The Moon" by Owen Plant, showing the notes of each part as they move through harmonic space, illustrated on a lattice diagram.