A sliding tile puzzle and music theory all in one!
September 15, 2014 2:53 PM Subscribe
Would be even cooler if they showed the number of sharps or flats adding up but fantastic idea!
posted by yoHighness at 3:01 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by yoHighness at 3:01 PM on September 15, 2014
Lovely! What do you do with Es?
posted by anotherpanacea at 3:03 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by anotherpanacea at 3:03 PM on September 15, 2014
Goes very nicely with the Christian Wolff composition I have been listening to for the last hour or so.
posted by idiopath at 3:08 PM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by idiopath at 3:08 PM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
This is super chill
posted by vogon_poet at 3:28 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by vogon_poet at 3:28 PM on September 15, 2014
Happiness is wrapping around the circle of fifths far enough to get a major triad all on one move.
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:07 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:07 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
From my first game: 132.38%. I wonder if more instruments unlock as time goes on.
posted by boo_radley at 4:14 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by boo_radley at 4:14 PM on September 15, 2014
How I computer
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 4:47 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 4:47 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
<music theory snob>
posted by Zephyrial at 4:56 PM on September 15, 2014 [8 favorites]
Pet peeve of mine as a music-theory teacher... I don't like that this game equates the different accidentals: F-sharp is not the same as G-flat. Yes, they sound the same in an equally-tempered scale (i.e., the modern piano), but even still they don't behave the same way in [properly notated tonal] music.</music theory snob>
posted by Zephyrial at 4:56 PM on September 15, 2014 [8 favorites]
The main trick seems to be managing the stragglers after the game increases the default tile.
posted by ckape at 5:06 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by ckape at 5:06 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
What does it mean when my board spells out "DEAD"?
posted by ckape at 5:09 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by ckape at 5:09 PM on September 15, 2014 [1 favorite]
I hate games. I have no idea how this works. Why do I even care. I quit metafilter!
posted by charlesminus at 5:23 PM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by charlesminus at 5:23 PM on September 15, 2014 [2 favorites]
Pet peeve of mine as a music-theory teacher...
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music, I ever came across a "C-flat" it'd be table flipping time.
Honestly, the UX of musical notation is pretty horrible.
posted by Foosnark at 5:39 PM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music, I ever came across a "C-flat" it'd be table flipping time.
Honestly, the UX of musical notation is pretty horrible.
posted by Foosnark at 5:39 PM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music, I ever came across a "C-flat" it'd be table flipping time.
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music in the key of Gb, I came across a Cb notated as a B-natural it'd be table flipping time. Music notation has its flaws, but I think a lot of complaints about it ignore the fact that music notation as it stands encodes some pretty complex information about key context. I remember being really frustrated by the constant spelling corrections my composition teacher gave me, but in retrospect it's made my thinking a lot clearer. Any contender to the throne is going to need to offer equal or greater expressiveness in that area* if it's going to be an all-purpose notation method.
* And it probably needs to be in-band in some sense. A naive solution involves explicit key annotation, but I think that both creates more of a cognitive burden on the reader and unnecessarily restricts possibilities for tonal ambiguity.
posted by invitapriore at 5:59 PM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music in the key of Gb, I came across a Cb notated as a B-natural it'd be table flipping time. Music notation has its flaws, but I think a lot of complaints about it ignore the fact that music notation as it stands encodes some pretty complex information about key context. I remember being really frustrated by the constant spelling corrections my composition teacher gave me, but in retrospect it's made my thinking a lot clearer. Any contender to the throne is going to need to offer equal or greater expressiveness in that area* if it's going to be an all-purpose notation method.
* And it probably needs to be in-band in some sense. A naive solution involves explicit key annotation, but I think that both creates more of a cognitive burden on the reader and unnecessarily restricts possibilities for tonal ambiguity.
posted by invitapriore at 5:59 PM on September 15, 2014 [4 favorites]
I don't compose and can't play music, but speaking as someone with a computer background, what you need to do is write your pieces as a table of frequencies and durations. So simple.
I also have suggestions for transforming painting by describing pictures in terms of X,Y combinations of squares of color of specified chromatic value.
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:56 PM on September 15, 2014 [7 favorites]
I also have suggestions for transforming painting by describing pictures in terms of X,Y combinations of squares of color of specified chromatic value.
posted by Joe in Australia at 6:56 PM on September 15, 2014 [7 favorites]
I do not have the music theory knowledge to understand what I just happened. But it sounded pretty, and it was like 2048 except that nonmatching tiles would sometimes combine just when I thought all hope was lost, so it was good.
posted by vytae at 7:22 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by vytae at 7:22 PM on September 15, 2014
If two of the same tiles have the same shade they can match even if the letters are different. Took me a while to fire that out.
posted by pseudodionysus at 9:21 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by pseudodionysus at 9:21 PM on September 15, 2014
This is a wonderful idea and beyond the, uh, 'enharmonicity' and an odd scoring system the execution is terrific -- thank you for posting.
I always thought a large part of the appeal of 2048 was a rhythm -- in my mind or my fingers or both -- that I'd develop during a game well played. Adding the sonic layer to things here really seems to re-affirm that. Maybe it's not rhythm, per se, but the general cacophony resulting from a sudden merging of three or four squares amidst the otherwise sparse droning notes lends me a certain satisfaction.
There are some interesting theory related links below the game:
Music Theory in 2048 infinite
Fourths or Fifths?
posted by Theophrastus Johnson at 9:25 PM on September 15, 2014
I always thought a large part of the appeal of 2048 was a rhythm -- in my mind or my fingers or both -- that I'd develop during a game well played. Adding the sonic layer to things here really seems to re-affirm that. Maybe it's not rhythm, per se, but the general cacophony resulting from a sudden merging of three or four squares amidst the otherwise sparse droning notes lends me a certain satisfaction.
There are some interesting theory related links below the game:
Music Theory in 2048 infinite
Fourths or Fifths?
posted by Theophrastus Johnson at 9:25 PM on September 15, 2014
This is super neat and might get me to finally learn some of this stuff, which has always been opaque to me.
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:15 PM on September 15, 2014
posted by LobsterMitten at 10:15 PM on September 15, 2014
If, as a musician trying to read sheet music in the key of Gb, I came across a Cb notated as a B-natural it'd be table flipping time
That's the point, there's no reason to write more than 5 accidentals unless you're entertained by messing with your performers. C-flat and E-sharp are not really notes and the search cost of finding them with my fingers makes my head hurt. ;-)
posted by Octaviuz at 6:44 AM on September 16, 2014
That's the point, there's no reason to write more than 5 accidentals unless you're entertained by messing with your performers. C-flat and E-sharp are not really notes and the search cost of finding them with my fingers makes my head hurt. ;-)
posted by Octaviuz at 6:44 AM on September 16, 2014
That's the point, there's no reason to write more than 5 accidentals unless you're entertained by messing with your performers. C-flat and E-sharp are not really notes and the search cost of finding them with my fingers makes my head hurt. ;-)Yes, the irony is that G flat major is a very easy key to play in on the piano, IOW it falls into the hand quite nicely, C major not so easy.
And some of the great classical piano music is written in more than five accidentals, and it is not because the composers were sadists.
posted by snaparapans at 5:05 PM on September 16, 2014 [1 favorite]
Variation: attempt to lose the game as fast as possible. 38% is my lowest score so far.
posted by idiopath at 10:20 AM on September 17, 2014
posted by idiopath at 10:20 AM on September 17, 2014
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