instrument-a-day 24: mobius music
February 27th, 2009
It’s a familiar tune played upside-down and backwards, and then just backwards, and then upside-down and backwards again. Over and over, forever.
It sounds like this. (Video here)
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1. kirkjerk | March 7th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
So brilliant! I absolutely dig the combination of a core idea of at home music making and a core idea of at home “neat math stuff”
2. moonmilk « Trainson&hellip | April 10th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
[...] moonmilk In Uncategorized on April 10, 2009 at 5:43 pm via moonmilk.com [...]
3. Möbius strip music box -&hellip | August 27th, 2009 at 7:47 am
[...] Ranjit Bhatnagar took one of those punched-strip programmable music box kits, put a half-twist in the strip, and looped it back on itself to make an endlessly-looping Möbius strip music box. The melody plays through once, and then a second time with the ordering of the notes on the scale reversed. An interesting compositional challenge, if nothing else. [...]
4. Foozinator | August 27th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I don’t recognize the tune, either backwards or upside-down and backwards. Anyone know what it is?
5. Robert1374 | August 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I think it’s Definitely the opening theme to “Cosmos.” I think it’s called Evangelis, or Vangelis? You tell because the repeating chords still sound the same.
6. Robert1374 | August 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Disregard my last comment. It’s definitely the “Happy birthday to You” song!
7. ranjit | August 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
You got it, Robert!
8. Design Swan » Blog Archi&hellip | August 30th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
[...] Moonmilk and [...]
9. Robert1374 | August 31st, 2009 at 6:53 am
I still think “happy birthday” sounds alot better upside down and backwards.
10. Alan Parekh | September 3rd, 2009 at 7:55 pm
The tune sounds very nice. Love the endless design!
11. AMS Graduate Student Blog&hellip | October 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
[...] down! (Just twist the music sheet once first after threading it through the music box as done at This artists site ) It was fun and you can do it too. Take a gander at Think Geek’s ;. AND Note that you can [...]
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