Music:  Broken Symmetry, Geometry, and Complexity - Videos

To watch a video, click a link after the Example name .  A link  RAR  is for a RAR-compressed file of an AVI video.  Go to http://www.rarlab.com/ to get the WinRAR software for decompressing these files.  With these AVI videos, no audio or video compression was done, so they are the best to view.  But they are often very large files, so WinRAR was used to perfectly compress them.  A link  FLV  is for a Flash video.  A link  YouTube  is for a YouTube video, which should work for just about all browsers and operating systems.    These latter two types of videos are of lesser quality, but should be more compatible with non-Windows browsers and operating systems.  The YouTube videos do provide acceptable sound (especially with headphones), and they have the advantage that other, related music videos are made available to you. 

Example 1:  Pavarotti's vocals     RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 2:  Choral and Solo Voicings     RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 3:  Trumpet playing and singing of Louis Armstrong

                   Trumpet:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Vocals:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 4:  Dissonance in Rock Music     RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 5:  The Geometry of Appalachian Spring      RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 6:  Beethoven, Goodman, Hendrix

      Beethoven:   RAR   FLV   YouTube     

      Goodman:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

      Hendrix:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 7:  Human avian duet      RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 8:  Audio Illusions    

     Shepard Tones audio:  ShepardTones.wav

     Audio of Shepard tones where illusion occurs:   ShepardTones3Clips.wav

     Shepard Tones video:     RAR   FLV   YouTube  

     Byrd motet:     RAR   FLV   YouTube  

Example 9:  Reversing Figure and Ground    

      Firebird Clip:      RAR   FLV   YouTube

      Processed Firebird Clip:      RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 10:  Amplifying Byrd's Illusion     RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 13:  Granular Synthesis 

                   Fern    RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Sierpinski Round    RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 14:  Subtle Dissonance in Gymnopedie I

                   Spectrogram:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Scalogram:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

Example 15:  Melody and rhythm in Unsquare Dance

                   Spectrogram:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Percussion scalogram (drum sticks & hand claps):   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Percussion scalogram (piano notes):   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                   Percussion scalogram (bass notes emphasized):   RAR   FLV   YouTube

Figure 17:  Percussion scalograms

                     Dance Around:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                     Welela:   RAR   FLV   YouTube

                     Taxman (bass emphasized):   RAR   FLV   YouTube