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Six on Music: John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme; The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip; How did K-pop conquer the world?; Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online; A World Map of Heavy Metal Density; 38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome

John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme

John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme

John Coltrane’s Handwritten Outline for His Masterpiece A Love Supreme Today we present a rare document from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History: Coltrane's handwrit...

The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip

"If you process things more visually than you do aurally, pay attention to the video above, a visualization of the piece by mathematical image-maker Jos Leys. You can follow the score, note for note, and then watch as the piece reverses itself, running back across the staff in the other direction. So far, so easy, but another layer appears: Bach wrote the piece to then be played simultaneously backwards as well as forwards. But prepare yourself for the mind-blowing coup de grâce when Leys shows us at a stroke just what the impossible shape of the Möbius strip has to do with the form of this "crab canon," meaning a canon made of two complementary, reversed musical lines. Hofstadter had a great deal of fun with that term in Gödel, Escher, Bach, but then, he has one of those brains — you'll notice many Bach enthusiasts do — that explodes with connections, transpositions, and permutations, even in its unaltered state. Alternatively, if you consider yourself a consciousness-bending psychonaut, feel free get into your preferred frame of mind, watch Bach's crab canon visualized, and call me in the morning."

Möbius strip An example of a Möbius strip can be created by taking a paper strip and giving it a half-twist, and then joining...

The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip

The Genius of J.S. Bach’s “Crab Canon” Visualized on a Möbius Strip The most impressive of Johann Sebastian Bach's pieces, musicophiles may have told you, will knock you over with ...

How did K-pop conquer the world?

"It is 1992, and three young men in a boy band are performing in a live television talent contest. The sound is new: Korean lyrics, Euro pop, African American hip-hop and rap. They dance in sync. The studio audience goes wild. The judges in their prim suits are less impressed. They reveal their scorecards. The band gets the lowest mark of the night, and is voted off the show

The judges couldn't have got it more wrong.

In the next few days the song I Know climbs to the top of the charts, and stays there for a record-smashing 17 weeks. That night the group, Seo Taeji and Boys, ignites a revolution. Korean pop or K-pop was born.

K-pop is now a multi-billion-dollar industry. Bands like BTS and Blackpink are selling out in the US, UK and international stadiums within minutes. BTS is second only to Drake in international music sales. How did K-pop conquer the world? It’s a story with several parts."

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20190529-how-did-k-pop-conquer-the-world

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 17,000 Historic B... A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s int...

A World Map of Heavy Metal Density

A World Map of Heavy Metal Density

A World Map of Heavy Metal Density Scandinavia is ground zero for heavy metal, but the genre crops up in less obvious places as well...

38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome

38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Captivating Medley Performed by the Axis of Awesome

38 Major Pop Songs Played with the Exact Same Four Chords: Watch a Capti... When we call music a universal language, it’s usually understood to be a metaphor. In its purest theoretical for...