{"id":7735,"date":"2013-11-14T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7735"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:29:32","slug":"animated-sheet-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7735","title":{"rendered":"Animated Sheet Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know me, total sucker for musical visualization, so I was delighted to see Dan Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL1B7060F21E6C1D51\">Animated Sheet Music<\/a> come <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/watch-animated-sheet-music-for-miles-davis-so-what-charlie-parkers-confirmation-coltranes-giant-steps.html\">across my radar<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samim\">@samim<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Whether or not you read Western notation, it&#8217;s easy to follow along with the animation (indeed, it makes a good score-reading exercise just to watch the bouncing notes). And there&#8217;s something simply amazing about seeing, as you&#8217;re hearing, the music unfold in all its vertical and horizontal glory. <\/p>\n<p>The one for &#8220;So What&#8221; is definitely the winner for me, perhaps because it includes most of the ensemble. It&#8217;s so engaging to watch the different, deeply familiar parts unfold on the page &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rhv8iOY08TY?list=PL1B7060F21E6C1D51\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cohen adds apologies to Jimmy Cobb, the drummer and the one member of the ensemble left out, but he couldn&#8217;t source notation for the drum part. (Classic Eurocentric lacuna there, no fault of Cohen&#8217;s.) It would be nice if some drum geek were to draw one up for it! Imagine eventually mapping thousands of jazz recordings this way, perhaps even automatically, a la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jFCjv4_jqAY\">Melodyne<\/a>. It would be a stunning archive, at any rate, and an incredible resource for entertaining edification. <\/p>\n<p>Western notation appears nice and precise, but I don&#8217;t find it all that beguiling to look at. As such, Cohen&#8217;s animations may not not achieve the game-console dazzle &#038; quirk of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7538\">Rites of Spring graphical score<\/a> I linked to last spring, but there&#8217;s dazzle enough in the musical performances to justify watching them through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Confirmation&#8221; and &#8220;Giant Steps&#8221; are more minimal than &#8220;So What,&#8221; but awesome in their own right &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zV6y1f7CU-A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2kotK9FNEYU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More like these, please! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know me, total sucker for musical visualization, so I was delighted to see Dan Cohen&#8217;s Animated Sheet Music come across my radar (h\/t @samim). Whether or not you read Western notation, it&#8217;s easy to follow along with the animation (indeed, it makes a good score-reading exercise just to watch the bouncing notes). And there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,407],"class_list":["post-7735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jazz","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7735"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8174,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7735\/revisions\/8174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}