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Bach canon played forwards and backwards as a moebius strip (boingboing.net)
10 points by kf on Sept 12, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



This video appears to contain two mistakes:

- Since the second half of the piece contains so many short notes, the measures are physically longer on paper than the earlier measures, even though each half takes the same amount of time to play. When the piece is broken into two halves, the animation is forced to put the breakpoint partway into the "short note" portion to make both "sides" (a misnomer, I know) the same length.

- The reverse playback version would, I'd think, be playing the notes "upside down" to work right. That is, notes that were low should be played high, and vice versa. I'd actually have to cut out and read sheet music on a real moebius strip to confirm this, however. (The video only gave one camera angle of the strip.)


The animation is stupid. You are listening to an audio clip of Bach being played forward and backwards simultaneously. You could do this with any song played in key.

A mobius strip has one side so it would be read like on paper. The twist is the result of representing a two-dimensional object in three-dimensional space.


Bach was so far ahead of his time it's kind of unbelievable.



Quite an interesting twist on Bach.

ba dump dump chs :)


meh. sounded kind of one-sided to me.


Nice one! he he




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