Practive your Saxophone with Giant Steps

This is what John Coltrane's landmark tune and solo look like when they come to life on paper.

Back to back Bach?

Are you interested in Bach? Watch this:


"In the enigmatic Canon 1 a 2 from J. S. Bach’s “Musical Offering” (1747) (also known as “crab canon” or “canon cancrizans”), the manuscript shows a single score, whose beginning joins with the end. This space is topologically equivalent to a bundle of the line segment over the circle, known as a Möbius strip. The simultaneous performance of the deeply related forward and backward paths gives appearance to two voices, whose symmetry determines a reversible evolution. A musical universe is built and then is “unplayed” back into silence." (link)

Thanks to Dan Coleman at Open Culture for helping us find this.

Graphical Score Animations

Using his Music Animation Machine, Stephen Malinowski has created some intriguing looks at music.

The video below shows an animated score of Beethoven’s 5th, and you can use this chart that explains what the colors in the score mean. Essentially each color represents a particular instrument. Get the chart here,



and Debussy's Claire de la Lune:



Here is the playlist for music by Bach:



Go to the YouTube page (with links to all 63 videos of all kinds of music): http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin and the Musical Animation Machine's web page is here: http://www.musanim.com/. You can read an interview with Stephen Malinowski here.

photo of Stephen Anthony Malinowski from Wikipedia