How a Bach Canon Works. Brilliant.

Comments (12)

1. J. Castillo says . . . | September 12, 2009 / 4:01 pm

   testing new comment system… =0

2. Open Culture says . . . | September 12, 2009 / 4:06 pm

   Hi all,

   Does this new comment system seem ok? Any thoughts?

   Thanks for the hand,
   Dan

3. Greg says . . . | September 12, 2009 / 4:25 pm

   Twitter and FB connect both were taking forever to connect so used Open Id which worked fine/quickly. To be fair, twitter has seemed to be having issues today so probably something on their server end.

   I like the concept of being able to use any id to log in though!

4. RaphaelleH says . . . | September 12, 2009 / 4:36 pm

   That is incredible. Love the infinite loop visual. And DISQUS is fantastic. Just need to get it for myself already.

5. Open Culture says . . . | September 12, 2009 / 4:40 pm

   Hopefully the Twitter and FB logins will work. That's part of what I was hoping to accomplish here.

   Thanks again,
   Dan

6. gary says . . . | May 23, 2010 / 10:44 am

   as always Open Culture is #1 in my book, thank you!

7. Otis Turner says . . . | January 18, 2011 / 4:07 am

   Hope you like it. I did.

8. Nicolas Buff says . . . | February 24, 2011 / 4:37 am

   Great, informative animation. I recently learned that once upon a time musicians would mail their canons to one another as puzzles. The task was to unravel how the canon worked from the single given line. Whatever happened to great pastimes like these?

9. flavin judd studio says . . . | April 13, 2011 / 4:10 am

   gorgeously genius.

10. Beta Cummins says . . . | April 13, 2011 / 4:39 am

    I love Bach, but can’t recall having listened to this piece before. What is it called?

11. Beta Cummins says . . . | April 13, 2011 / 4:58 am

    Never, ever knew that. Worth repeating: whatever happened to pastimes like these?

    Cheers!

12. IridiumDinosaurs says . . . | November 2, 2011 / 6:58 pm

    The relationship between music, art, life and mathematics. The notion of ‘undecidable propositions’. such as the geometry in something you see in the escher triangle, which doesn’t seem wrong but doesn’t work either, in your system. structured music which you hear and the patterns or puzzles of the cannon, how is that possible?. The existence or nature of God as an axiom, The notion of genius, atheism, a universe,.. with or without a god, or to believe….

    AN INTERESTINGLY POWERFUL FORMAL SYSTEM (anything) which is seemingly incomplete, or inconsistent,..The implication, in philosophical terms, is that we must always choose between knowing that there are truth’s that cannot be proven (incompleteness) or knowing that there are statements that are both true and false, at the same time (inconsistency). within a (your) given framework SUCH AS LIFE. …. The whole GEB idea and concepts about meaning, loops and value within the infinite really forces me to think of the way we live… need to get priorities right methinks.

    This is a book which covers everything! (Gödel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid by DouglasHofstadter.)

    this a book which explains everything with meaning!(Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller)..