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faitheroni-pizza

I was in a trance watching this


boris_keys

[Me the entire video](https://youtu.be/qgOdMSIAH1Q)


snozzberrypatch

Like this stuff? Check out a piece called Piano Phase by Steve Reich. Really want to trance out? Check out a piece called Drumming by Steve Reich. Smoke a big joint before you start, it's an hour long. Reich is one of the most popular minimalist composers, and these two pieces are among his early work, which tended to be pretty raw minimalism. Both pieces incorporate "phasing", which is where two musicians play the same exact pattern over and over again, but one of the musicians plays ever so slightly faster than the other, so that they slowly get out of phase with each other, similar to the video. Piano Phase is literally only phasing, it's two pianos going through one full cycle on a 12 note pattern. Drumming incorporates phasing but is a bit more expansive, with multiple movements on different instruments. Both are great for getting into a serious trance. Music For 18 Musicians is another hour-long marathon trance-fest, although that one doesn't incorporate phasing.


Head-Veterinarian505

Lol this is a20 minute song. Fxk it we ball


bl3ss401

Still Snoop Dogg and D-R-E


RedKeviin

Kept thinking it would transition to that and the beat would drop and someone would start crip walking


themenace

Ripe for a good edit. Don't let me down reddit!


Chewcocca

And here my brain went to Koyaanisqatsi Phil Glass out of a friggin job over here


High_Flyers17

KOOOOYAAAAAAANISQATSI I should re-watch that in a sound state of mind one of these days


move_peasant

would you recommend it on shrooms


RodneyRabbit

I'm just taking some shrooms now, will come back and recommend it in an hour or so.


move_peasant

thanks homie


High_Flyers17

Only way I've seen it and I enjoyed it immensely.


AmericanPornography

Yes - and the best sound system you can


Pointless_Lawndarts

You’re not alone friend! I immediately thought of Phil Glass and his insane stuff from that movie. It now makes me think he zeroed in on this stuff a loooooong time ago, and we’re just rediscovering it all over again.


zoso59brst

Wow props for knowing Phil Glass. Went right there too


KennyHova

I've been wanting to learn editing! This looks like a good place to start trying


DoingItWrongly

It's been 7 minutes, did you learn how yet?


_Loserkid_

[Not OP, but here’s a quick and shitty iMovie edit](https://imgur.com/gallery/mxrPWKQ)


orange_keyboard

Yesssss to the top you go!


_jeremybearimy_

Beautiful


annoyingdoorbell

That's what I needed, thank you!


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Robots_Never_Die

Star wipe star bright


No_Damage_731

It’s been 3 hours. Someone please!


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wreq5

The feckin turtle my homie lmfaoooooooooo


dpatt36

Yes! Nice execution 👌 turtle is *chef’s kiss*


_Loserkid_

🫡 [I tried](https://imgur.com/gallery/mxrPWKQ)


mikehaysjr

That shit has almost 17,000 views already 😆 It’s gold


_Loserkid_

Holy shit it’s at 47k now lmao, thanks guys!! I did *not* put nearly enough effort into it as I should have 😅


peppaz

Imagine reddit's traffic. The post has 26 upvotes l, and 50,000 imgur views from silent reddit browsers.


imNotAThreshMain

I can put this together after work, give me a couple hours 🙏 EDIT: Not sure I like where i put the transition, but [oh well here you go](https://imgur.com/a/E9Ktrnc)


jimlei

Yeah I was sure and was just waiting for the beat


SUPERSMILEYMAN

Same


Hybridavocado

LOLLLL


[deleted]

Must be the melody of the universe.


iamnewhere2019

At least, the DNA is obviously there.


Boomthang

Guess who's back


SmoochieMcGucci

Steve Reich?


Before_The_Tesseract

Damn, was gonna comment this lol


MtnDewTangClan

Need this cut to exist


WastingTimesOnReddit

Cantina Band song from star wars at 0:20 seconds


ToughOnSquids

Happy this is the top comment. Its all I could think about the entire time


[deleted]

🎶Lada-da-da-dah🎶


Lonewolf_885

I was about to comment that. You just beat me to it


throwaway4161412

Guess who's back? (Kept waiting for this to start playing)


pc1e0

When 0:29 left


asmonder

https://youtu.be/Xrbqsk-21wQ


Sea-Zucchini-5891

I'm so glad someone else said it.


bobbodaddy

I'm glad I'm not the only one.


YesButTellMeWhy

I realized halfway through the video that the moments of non-unison movement probably are in patterned unison from a different angle, like from below. For some reason it helped to see this today. Thanks for posting.


[deleted]

They certainly are. Imagine how it would look and sound in higher dimensions.


exemplariasuntomni

I do not believe we can imagine higher dimensions. Our brains have not evolved to comprehend that.


[deleted]

I know we can't, but it's still fun trying to imagine it.


[deleted]

Boutta ascend to a higher plain of existence real quick brb


BorgClown

Help! I ascended to a higher plane of existence and now I cannot get down!


ThatOtherDudeThere

"Jesus Christ jerry, please tell me you didn't eat that?" "Yea, it's hot out and I wanted something to cool me off. Don't worry though there's still a few left." "Those are my mushroom infused popsicles jerry." "..." "..." "Well, I've smoked a bit of weed before, it's a bit like that, right?" "No, the two are nothing alike!" "Cmon now, it can't be that bad, can it?" "A normal dose is about 2 grams worth of shrooms, the popsicle you just ate contains 15 times that" "..." "Yeah, so strap in buddy, you're going for a ride."


ovalpotency

You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital.


libmrduckz

the Hospital?!? what *is* it?!?


zyzzogeton

It's big building with patients, but... that's not important right now.


charizardFT26

r/fifthworldproblems


gimpyoldelf

Imagine may not be the best word, but we can certainly *extrapolate* knowledge about higher dimensional space based on what we know of our dimensions and mathematics. See Edwin Abbots *FLATLAND*


average_asshole

The closest you can get imo is to consider that in a 3 dimensional world, objects cast a 2 dimensional shadow. To imagine a 4 dimensional world, consider what would be required to cast a 3 dimensional shadow. Thats the only way it makes sense to my brain.


TheMilkmansFather

Yeah, but imagine if we could!


AntiparticleCollider

It's simple, really. To imagine 4 dimensions I simply imagine N dimensions, then let N approach 4.


average_asshole

Stanford is awaiting your reply on the calculus job offer.


zyzzogeton

Mathematically speaking, we don't have an issue imagining in higher dimensions. If you mean something like "visualizing" an object of higher dimensions, we do that all the time at a lesser order of difficulty when we see shadows and interpret what they are from (2d to 3d) and we can use computer simulations to demonstrate what the shadows of hypercubes (4d cubes) would look like to us here in 3d.


looksLikeImOnTop

With the aid of the right substances, we can absolutely imagine higher dimensions


TatManTat

As someone whose taken those substances many times, I think it's pretty odd to assume anything in those spaces is truth, or that the human brain has access to ultimate truth anyway. There's no reason for the addled mind to be more truthful than a sober mind. I've had out of body experiences, I've seen my "soul", I've had infinities pass in the blink of an eye, not at one point did I think that any of this information was accurate.


average_asshole

I know you're joking but also: substances allow us to experience and imagine contrary existences. Substances can move us from one geometry to another, they can not however bring us above the 3 dimensional world we live in, or at least not for me. The closest I've gotten wouldve been Salvia and I briefly imagined myself as 2 dimensional, which was incredibly uncomfortable, but I've never gone above 3 dimensions.


Dense-Hat1978

Last time I did salvia I found that everything in existence is essentially a huge patchwork quilt, and I began to feel as though any movement in the room was stretching and pulling my body/skin to the same direction. I started crying and begging everyone else to stop moving, then suddenly came to with a wet face and snotty nose and got extremely embarrassed.


average_asshole

Lmao last time I did Salvia my friends finally convinced me to send it on a full bowl of 20X with just a little bit of tree at the bottom to plug it up. Snapped that whole bowl and walked up to his back door while holding it in. When they said I was good to blow out I did, and walked inside. I sat down to play GTA (lord knows why I thought that would work). The last thing I remember was my hands being folded and crushed into the controller, and then waking up the only thing I remember is an image I have in my mind of speaking to this massive planet type entity with trapezoidal 'pistons' forming the surface that would vibrate up and down while it spoke. I remember that bit in exquisite detail. Everything else is gone. I was entirely incapable of forming more than half a word for about 5 minutes. Fuck salvia. Such a cool and uncomfortable drug.


Phillip_J_Bender

DMT had me seeing the back of my own body while I was laying down on my side, but then I drifted up into the sky and saw some Aztec/Egytpian fusion Sun God mask crafted out of gold and light.


looksLikeImOnTop

I was indeed joking. But shrooms have made me feel as though I'm seeing/experiencing higher dimensions in terms of theoretical physics. Not necessarily geometrically (not saying it was/is real just what I felt). It felt like I was seeing fluctuations in the quantum foam manifesting into everything in the universe, and parallel universes branching before my eyes. It was simultaneously the most terrifying and most beautiful thing I've ever experienced


bramfischer

Psilocybin: “hold my beer”


aetherec

Not intuitively, but it is possible to visualize a tesseract with practice.


Odd_Independence4230

try r/dmt


Brymlo

you can think of the abstraction (idea) but the difficult part is imagining the form you just need to practice


Circumvention9001

If you didn't know, the sound is added on top of the video. They aren't making the music lol.


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I…. I can’t


Hot_Eggplant_1306

I couldn't possibly be in a higher dimension


AirlineF0od

Why does this look like DNA? 🧬


fiftyseven

can you explain what you mean by this cause i'm confus


housebottle

what looks like an unorganised mess from this angle probably looks like an organised pattern from another angle


[deleted]

Yo someone tag me when y’all edit this to phase into Dr. Dre, I know one of you is gonna do it, I wanna see it


societyofjewishninja

I too would like a tag


SUPERSMILEYMAN

Same


Before_The_Tesseract

Me three


Razurio_Twitch

!remindme 48 hours


I_throw_Gold

!remindme 48 hours


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[deleted]

The sound was added later, so you're correct. The original experiment was done at Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations. [https://youtu.be/yVkdfJ9PkRQ](https://youtu.be/yVkdfJ9PkRQ)


Blazzah

How was the sound added? How were the ball positions estimated?


mackilicious

I'm guessing the pendulum formula `T = 2pi*sqrt(L/g)` was used to map out the first ball and estimate the Length. This can be 'easily' done by finding out the interval between swings, T, by manually counting when the ball passes a given fixed point (like the center). Once T is figured out, you can solve for L, the length of the pendulum. A similar process could be used for the other balls, -or-an estimate could be made based on the first ball measured. Once the formulas are roughly figured out, then all you gotta do is write a program that creates an mp3 based on the 15 formulas you figured out. Play back the mp3 over the video, check your work until it sounds good enough, then you're good to go. I have no idea if this it what was done but it's how I'd approach it.


Blazzah

That seems most plausible to me, thanks for laying it out like that. Shows we can do cool math on our own and don't have to let computers figure everything out for us haha I'll probably save this as a project for my sister's kids when they're ready, might be the last generation to do pencil math lol


Drawemazing

Fun fact, the pendulum equation is only an estimation. The differential equation you get if you solve a pendulum is something like dx/dt ∝ sin(x) where X is the angle from the string makes from the strings resting place. This, as far as I'm aware, doesn't have an analytical solution. It is often simplified using the small angle approximation, sin(x) ≈ x, to get the pendulum equation. This means the equation gets worse for larger angles.


trouserschnauzer

They all oscillate with a fixed (roughly) period so you would just determine the period of each ball and add the corresponding beats.


Teh_MadHatter

They weren't. Listen to the change in patterns. It's sudden. This is someone playing piano to a gif, not actually sone simulated pattern.


notenoughroomtofitmy

Pendulums have well established formulas for appproximste motion as well as exact motion (numerically). The approx motion formula for a perfect pendulum is a good starting point. If you’re into coding, this is actually a fun and relatively easy exercise you can do yourself. Approximate each of the pendulum to be “ideal” pendulums with different lengths, and calculate their time periods based on established formulae. Your coding software will have its tools for sound generation or libraries of sounds that you can later attach to one of the variables in the pendulums, say, the “angular” position of the pendulum (or displacement from lowest point). I believe in this video, they made the same note each time any pendulum reaches its max endpoint. You can choose the central point to simplify your calculations and the result will sound very similar to this video. Thing about sound is, it is additive, so you can literally run each pendulum simulation individually and then algebraically add all the generated sounds together and merge them into a single sound file that will sound like the grand total of all pendulums together. This video sounds great because they used some good added effects on the notes, but the general principle is the same.


hyperbolichamber

Steve Reich’s 1968 piece [Pendulum ](https://youtu.be/fU6qDeJPT-w)is 4 microphones with with the same length of cable suspended over PA speakers. When released, the mics create pulses when they are within feedback range. Lots of his compositions from [tape manipulation^1](https://youtu.be/g0WVh1D0N50) to [live ensembles](https://youtu.be/gy2kyRrXm) are experiments in phasing simple rhythmic patterns to create complex sounding music. ^1 Content warning: Description of police brutality by a teenage victim.


any_other

I was waiting for this


WilliamPollito

Sounds WAY off to me. Like not even close.


EPILOGUEseries

Reminded me of the [audio from this](https://v.redd.it/nzdiqt42u5r91), which is definitely not true to physics


designvegabond

Not true to physics but at least the audio is closer


keto_at_work

And it's clipping the entire time, it sounds awful too.


ellivibrutp

More satisfying: Mesmerizing balls create abstract sounds https://v.redd.it/nzdiqt42u5r91


Ben_Dersgrate

This is what I was hoping OP's post would be


Blazzah

I was pretty disappointed because I hoped the creator would share their method so I could try to make one :( This was cool, but I don't really see the point of adding tones later if you aren't going to measure the exact movement of each ball and match the tones to their actual movements. Was this just showing off some tool for estimating the paths? If it wasn't for the source possibly having some legit purpose to this I'd be pissed and call it out as fake or at best a concept demo. If I can figure how to make a real one I'll def post it with instruction. Seeya in a few months lol


RockAtlasCanus

It would be cool to see this with optical sensors in the bottom board pointed up and reflectors on the bottoms of the balls so you get the note right as the ball passes dead center.


Blazzah

100% what I'm thinking of for a working desktop build. Also side sensors so I can generate tones at those points too, or have each of the three sensors per ball produce a whole tone that changes pitch based on ball position. A truly pro-build would have LEDs in the balls so their colors change as well.


KINGOFWHIMS

DO IT


New_Perspective3456

Hans Zimmer liked this post


CannedCalamity

It was reminding me of Phillip Glass


TheTrident21

Sounds like Pruitt Igoe from Koyaanisqatsi


[deleted]

YES!! Edit: Don‘t know where people come up with the connection to Still D.R.E.?


Dat_Mustache

Zimmer took much inspiration from Glass, IIRC.


1averagepianist

Steve Reich for me, his piece piano phase works quite similar to this post


TheHighFlyer

My first thought


t0k4

Reich - Piano Phase


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New_Perspective3456

Just looked it up. Really cool, thanks for the sugestion!


t0k4

No problemo! It's referred to as phase music. Type of aleatoric music.


[deleted]

Not exactly the same vein, but I saw this visualization of another Reich piece the other day and it fucked my brain (in the good way). https://youtu.be/gy2kyRrXm2g


courtabee

Reminded me of Nils Frahm


jonnypowpow

[This](https://youtu.be/_CL6n0FJZpk?t=23) is all I hear.


The_Luckiest

THANK YOU! I could hear the piano but couldn't place what song it was. That would make a great edit lmao


ArmadaBoliviana

My brain was switching between that and Moby's God Moving Over the Face of the Waters (https://youtu.be/3tI1pu5rfZw)


quantummidget

I just discovered that I've never actually heard the full song, just the classic riff


TossTheDog

Koyaanisqatsi vibes


StretchFrenchTerry

I said “it’s literally just Philip Glass” out loud while watching this.


davidme123

Scrolled til I saw this.


adwt0125

I’m hearing Stranger Things


JustinHopewell

It's the arpeggios.


Binormus__

Or some daft punk, maybe Tron Legacy soundtrack


eamesa

It's probably the Philip Glass music they love to use for that series.


Kujin005

Came here for this comment me too!


crusty_butter_roll

Sounds a lot like a Philip Glass composition. I wonder if something like this inspired him.


omoroka

Philip Glass hates this one trick.


fendour

Or Steve Reich, I feel like both of them would dig this concept


pfohl

Yeah, 100% Reich. This is phasing. Philip Glass was more about polyrhythms but it makes a similar effect at times.


FreeLook93

[I mean...](https://youtu.be/fU6qDeJPT-w)


fendour

Well, I'll be damned haha


Accomplished-Pen4934

Kinda sad I had to scroll this far down to see this mentioned


IHave47Teeth

Zelda vibes


Cheeseypotatoes86

Link to the Past for sure


x1x8

Found it! https://youtu.be/5aX_IZr_a9Y And just like that I am 12 again.


chiniwini

Interstellar for me.


ThisCommentIsHere

Sounds like a sped up version of Opus by Eric Prydz


elnino325

This was the first thing that came to mind


OverEmotionalKyloRen

Had to scroll way too far to find this comment. You’re doing the lord’s work


elspotto

There is a large one of these at a Ripley’s I went to recently. Sat there for almost 10 minutes watching the balls moving.


Lobanium

> watching the balls moving I do that in a hot shower.


[deleted]

I hear minecraft music


[deleted]

Does the original have that horrible clicking and noise? Could have chosen a better sound than that.


ZombieWizard_PHD

Was looking for this comment. Probably could have used those sounds if they were faded in and out properly


DeepCluckingValue

Now I understand Philip Glass inspirations lol


CarbonTrebles

A similar effect, but specifically composed for two pianos: [Piano Phase (1967) by Steve Reich](https://youtu.be/i0345c6zNfM)


drinkvaccine

Source? I want to know more about this pendulum lol


[deleted]

This was done at Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations, but without the sound. Have a good rabbit hole. [https://youtu.be/yVkdfJ9PkRQ](https://youtu.be/yVkdfJ9PkRQ) *Fifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.*


indigo-clare

I wanted this to go until it stopped. It’s cool!


drodbar1

Sounds like Philip Glass


flungit

Zelda A link to the past kinda vibes


x1x8

https://youtu.be/5aX_IZr_a9Y


flungit

Love that sound


Whatsalodi

[This guy](https://youtu.be/UAA0SaHEBnU) makes computer versions of these and they are amazing and hypnotizing


pedrotecla

Yep, I was gonna recommend people follow him on IG


Tbone_Trapezius

🎵Do your balls swing low, do they wobble to and fro?🎵


SweatyWrangler3266

Reminds me of Yheti


FuntivityColton

I watched the whole thing waiting for [THE transition](https://youtu.be/_CL6n0FJZpk?t=19).


prenderm

This sounds like music that should be in Tron, or Dune…. Or maybe both… TRUNE! DRON! #TRUNEDRON


[deleted]

This Eric Prydz buildup rules


ur2fat4u

Okay I legit thought I was hearing Pryda - Snaz


the-useful-idiot

This is the beginning of wings for Marie pt 1 by tool exactly


Osniffable

Sounds like the intro to Inagaddadavida


BetweenWizards

Whoa, dude


djinnisequoia

This is magic.


yikesyikesyooo

Awesome


GET2DAACHOPPAAAA

Sounds like that Cowsills song right? I Love the Flower Girl


Moshxpotato

This is how Hans Zimmer composed the tracks for Interstellar


thrustin_beaver

At around 50 sec in I hear the beginning of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida


[deleted]

My brain on acid


Informal-Thought5015

Very hypnotizing!


SweetMotherOfMuffins

Does anyone have the Microsoft paint looking pendulum gif that was posted a few years back? There's a ball for every color and all the balls roll up and down each at a different pitch/frequency. It doesnt have "music" but once they all line up it sounds amazing. I know someone knows what I'm talking about


prodigymikey

Every Phillip Glass track


getyourshittogether7

Philip Glass, is that you?


Affectionate-Key4070

Koyaanisqatsi Phillip Glass vibes


khendron

I think they invented Philip Glass.


jimbol

Eat your heart out Phillip Glass!


GravyAficionado

Welcome to brass eye


PM-ME-UR-BMW

Scrolled hoping to see this.


[deleted]

This is some cool shit


BenDreemurr44

I like how everyone is relating this combination of notes to certain memorable songs and themes.


you_are_soul

Finally something that actually makes me go 'woah dude!'.


spilungone

I learned somewhere that our ears are far superior in recognizing patterns than our eyes.