TIL about composer Henry Cowell’s “theory of musical relativity” that says rhythm & pitch exist on the same continuum. He argued that if you speed up a rhythm enough, it eventually becomes a perceivable pitch, implying that tempo & tone are fundamentally the same phenomenon at different frequencies.
TIL about composer Henry Cowell’s “theory of musical relativity” that says rhythm & pitch exist on the same continuum. He argued that if you speed up a rhythm enough, it eventually becomes a perceivable pitch, implying that tempo & tone are fundamentally the same phenomenon at different frequencies.
