synthet but scary

i guess you can say... music theory is pitchcraft

You might even say the real music theory was the friends we made along the way

Music is liquid architecture, and architecture is frozen music.

Awesome, non-euclidian horrors in my warm-up scales!

I can’t remember where I heard this but it resonated with me:
when you take a tree and craft a wood wind instrument from it, when you blow into it you are bringing the spirit of that tree back to life in the form of sound. The trees live through the exhalation of our breath, so it gives it life. It’s sound, reminiscent of the sound the wind made when it blew through its branches
When you take an animal and use it’s skin to make a drum you are reviving the echo of its heart beat. The heart pounds with a steady rhythm and drumming brings out the animal spirit in the drum.

Talking is witchcraft. Every word is a spell.

“A melody that doesn’t leave home is just a tone.”
Words of wisdom

when our parents told us that our music is the devil...they were right :face-orange-biting-nails:

Yesssss yes yes yes heck yeah. My relationship to music (as a composer/musician/songwriter) has really shifted (in an entirely positive way) ever since I started thinking of music theory as a magic practice rather than a means to an end. Music is some of the most wizardy shit we do and we act like it's not crazy wizard shit! We take this weird naturally occurring process -- air vibrating, the overtone series, the weird ways pitches interact at different frequency ratios -- and we feel emotions based on it... so we decide to manipulate it to our whims and use it to make other people feel emotions! That's wild and super weird!! and we take it for granted!     The way that tuning doesn't line up perfectly (even though it feels like it should) and the fact that it has frustrated and perplexed theorists for literally thousands of years, is so beautiful to me. Like despite us making music for as long as we've done literally anything it seems, it still feels like it's hiding secrets that we might not ever understand. But humans will keep tinkering away at it curiously for several more thousands of years to seek knowledge and understand ourselves better and damn that's cool huh??

Jazz is another name for Tao as far as I'm concerned

I am so high for this

As a Born Deaf person it is rather fascinating to witness how a mass group of people can be hypnotised by one song. For a large group, even thousands and thousands to all feel the same emotion and move and think in the same way if they let the music grab hold of their mind. From a church to a rock concert to meditation classes. I imagine time is not linear for these people too as you demonstrated how point A and point B and so on, can connect via ‘shapes’ with frequency.
Thank you for this video. It really helped me visualise what you called ‘witch craft’ 🌀🤟🏼🌀

As a musician who went to the conservatory, I can attest to that! Music theory IS basically a set of rules that is fun to learn, but after years and years of experience you go back to the beginning and realize that you were better off because when you knew nothing you were more creative, it was FUN it was a joy.
I think after you learned the theory, you applied it, you have to realize that is better to unlearn everything you knew and play with your heart, not your head.

Very impressive that you invoked the circle of fifths without selling your soul to it!  Next task: explain why the tritone is dissonant (impossible) lol

I love how music theory is more of a study of the human mind than anything else

"Write your own spells" :person-turqouise-waving:

Bro is trying to make a philospher stone with music.

Yes, music is alchemy - as is all arts. Artists and creative people are Mystics - they are the mediators of the in-between... they help bridge the gap between the things we know for certain and the things we know nothing about.  All creative peoples tap into a vital divine essence of sorts, that underlines all things that exists in the universe... because it is one of creation.  The constant involution and evolution of bringing infinite potentiality into finite actuality.  I am learning music theory now - i have struggled with some of the concepts but i feel i will get it eventually.  Usually when making some piece of art, whether a painting or collage, i feel like i am going into a trance - just the antenna that receives the measages.  Its not me creating anything, i am just allowing space for that energy to flow through me.  The muse is real though she often escapes me.

“The circle of 5ths is really a spiral” - blew my mind and made me smile. I’ve known about some of equal temperament’s short comings but had never thought about it in regard to the circle of 5ths. So dope. Thanks!!