The first 30 minutes of my new video
Added 2023-08-20 13:44:35 +0000 UTCHi everyone,
I've just uploaded the first the first half of my latest video 'Notation Must Die', which runs to 32 minutes.
In case you were wondering this doesn't mean that I'm only 50% way through the project. The majority of my time was spent researching and a lot less on editing. As a result, I'm confident it won't be much longer before it's all wrapped up. If you happen to spot any errors or typos, please give me a heads-up. Last time I shared here, keen-eyed viewers spotted minor mistakes that turned out to be really valuable.
I also wanted to mention here that for my next video, I was thinking of doing something a little different: a video about how I initially loved, and then slowly fell out of love with Facebook. This would not your traditional, whingy, holier-than-thou take down. I will spend almost no time talking about Mark Zuckerberg or Cambridge analytica. It will be solely about my own personal experience - recounting how Facebook played a significant role during a 5-7 year period of my life, including a time when I worked for a games company that depended on it, and how it gradually deteriorated until everything I loved about it was gone. Facebook was a massive disappointment for me because achieved something great for a short period of time and I don't think it has ever really been replaced.
This is something I've been thinking of doing for a while and it's my first proper attempt at a video that isn't strictly about music (excluding my last video, which was not planned in advance). My musical experience will play into it to some extent but not much.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks a lot,
Martin.
Comments
Note: I've removed this older version from my channel, so the video preview will no longer work. I'll probably return to using my 'other' burner channel for this in future.
Tantacrul
2023-11-03 18:46:52 +0000 UTCI think the Facebook idea may have some benefit for younger generations who never used it
Gordinator
2023-10-23 17:37:48 +0000 UTCThis is very interesting so far. I've often wondered why people find standard notation so hard. It's just notation, it doesn't require any mad skills to decode, just some getting-used-to. Playing an instrument well, or composing - sure, that takes talent and effort. The idea that notation keeps someone from being a musician - would anyone point to the habit of writing text left-to-right and top-to-bottom in horizontal lines, and blame that for them not being an author? It also makes me think about the huge number of apps that promise the buyer instant brilliant musicianship because of the revolutionary interface that instantly makes the traditional keyboard obsolete. No prior musical experience or training required, or any talent ;-) RE. the Facebook idea: that's almost similar to my own experience. I have never been fond of it, but I used to find it useful to keep in touch with others, have a little fun, etcetera. But in the last four, five years, it has lost that. I never gave that much thought, but spending any time on Facebook now makes me feel petulant.
Luthien Dulk
2023-09-03 15:11:50 +0000 UTCFacebook was genuinely useful for a while, especially it was great at cultivating 'weak ties', all those friendly acquaintanceships based on common interests or activities, and for organising events, especially with a lot of travel. It can still be used for those things, to some extent, but it's much more limited and difficult now.
Eleanor Durrant
2023-09-02 14:50:52 +0000 UTCJust found this, and of course I thought of you: "Highly disturbing sheet music," by RachManJohn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS9mVcS5KXI Long live written notation!
Brian Miller
2023-08-30 23:42:16 +0000 UTCLove what you have so far and can't wait for the rest. At the moment about the only thing that stuck out to me was the 3 second gap at 15:10 had me confused for a second or two before the music kicked in. I can see it as an intentional break before you get going, but I can also see some people thinking something went wrong with their video as that's what happened to me. As for the Facebook video, do it. I remember how good it was at the beginning and how it's enshittified itself to the point where most people hate it but still reluctantly use it because nothing has come close to replacing it.
Mateo Ham
2023-08-21 21:37:57 +0000 UTCInteresting bit about the DAW piano roll. I can't read those in videos. One music theory channel I watch uses those exclusively, and I'm always wondering, "what notes are those?" It's just indeterminate lines on the screen, so I have to listen closely to the commentary.
Brian Miller
2023-08-21 21:23:34 +0000 UTCI would really love to see the Facebook thing. Community is something I feel really strongly about and I think not enough people are talking about how social media is a really good idea in concept but is basically always ruined by the fact that someone owns it.
Charli Harvey
2023-08-21 17:20:22 +0000 UTCI love it and I'm very excited to see the finished product. As for the Facebook video, you should definitely go for it. Creators have a tendency to overestimate how much viewers are interested in specific subjects rather than voices and styles. I'm guessing most of us would be happy to hear your take on almost anything, because the thought and production value you put into every video is so high.
Anschel Schaffer-Cohen
2023-08-20 20:06:45 +0000 UTCDefinitely intrigued about the Facebook video idea. Would be nice to hear about how it had some positives originally and not just the standard "social media is a cancer" dialog everyone parrots now
Boomer Roberts
2023-08-20 17:52:27 +0000 UTCUnderstood. I find modal notation interesting because it's the very first time that rhythm was treated systematically, so it's the first time that pitch & rhythm are both systematized, but in a way that was already in the time of Franco considered to be unnecessarily cumbersome, and therefore abandoned. It illustrates the point that 1. history is not linear 2. things can be done multiple ways (as you argued with the chess notations). Anyway. Looking forward to the rest.
Victor Eijkhout
2023-08-20 17:52:12 +0000 UTCMy goodness this was really really good
Sandwich247
2023-08-20 17:51:18 +0000 UTCAnnoyingly, yes! The Hypate Meson was the 'highest' (lowest) note of the next tetrachord (each tetrachord share a note - it's quite mad compared to what we're used to)
Tantacrul
2023-08-20 17:43:53 +0000 UTCI touched on the rhythmic rules a little bit but to be honest, the transition from older 4-line staff notation all the way to white mensural notation is really massive. At a certain point, I needed to remind myself that the video was not a comprehensive account of every development in western notation and that some detail needed to be shed.
Tantacrul
2023-08-20 17:42:30 +0000 UTCEh, you seem to be skipping modal notation, going from Guido to Mensural in one 5 century swoop. Franco of Cologne & other 13th century theorists devote quite a bit of space to this now completely abandoned, but extremely intriguing, system.
Victor Eijkhout
2023-08-20 17:09:50 +0000 UTCAt 18:21 should it say Hypate twice?
Grace Wenzel
2023-08-20 16:03:48 +0000 UTCTwo mistakes I'm already aware of: 1. I say millennia, rather than millennium. 2. There is a visual distortion in the background when I introduce the 'Disruptors'.
Tantacrul
2023-08-20 15:15:13 +0000 UTC
