Simplest Is Best...
...and often the most delightfully illuminating.
Especially if, in this case, you only barely read music. I'd argue the same principle can apply to almost any endeavor. Stripping out the complexity--getting rid of the 'white noise'--leaves cognitive space to 'see' what's really going on: the Reductionist Agenda.
Then again, "Everything should be as simple as possible. And not one bit simpler." A. Einstein
For more on the animation, see here.
1 comment:
Bach is amazing but I would add simplicity combined with clarity is best, at least from this artist's perspective because without clarity, one lacks the ability to create great art. In Bach's work, four part fugal harmony weaves a extremely complex tapestry of sound yet, because of Bach's clarity of thought, his music never feels complex or labored, qualities all serious artists strive for when creating art of any consequence. The visualization also works because it conveys how music moves through time in intuitive fashion, something extremely hard to achieve without resorting to complex imagery that gets in the way of the task at hand. Absolutely a great post.
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