{"id":6485,"date":"2022-06-04T16:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6485"},"modified":"2022-06-04T18:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:17:55","slug":"an-apology-to-topology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=6485","title":{"rendered":"An Apology to Topology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently re-read a book called the Joy of X<\/a>. One of the chapters dealt with M\u00f6bius strips.<\/a> There was information about somebody who put together a strip where they punched in a song, like they do with those music boxes. When the strip came around and flipped (as M\u00f6bius<\/a> strips do), the holes were inverted leading to another melody where the lower notes were now higher and the higher notes lower. This of course intrigued me, and I found a site online where you could invert midi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent song I wrote, ‘A Minuet to Three’ seemed a prime candidate. I took several inverted sections and used them as a prelude to the song. The first 58 seconds of this song are the verses of the original song inverted. I put some bass guitar and violin\/cello over the top and voila (pun totally not intended) – this is how it came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n