Comments on: Dissonance is the truth about harmony

Dissonance is the truth about harmony

indexy — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:20:30 -0800

MinutePhysics takes a fun dive into The Physics of Dissonance (YT, 28m) and how interacting musical overtones create patterns of consonance and dissonance. They then go on to show how these lead to western and non-western scales, and eventually chords. This is based on an interactive page by Aatish Bhatia where you can explore some of these concepts and hear how different chord triads sound on a 3-d consonance/dissonance mapping.

There's also a t-shirt. Found via Aeon. Adorno quote in the title found on this dissonance quotes page.

By: indexy

indexy — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:23:00 -0800

Just noticed chavenet's post right before this one. Dissonance for all my friends!

By: signal

signal — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:52:45 -0800

Lovely. If I ever write a short story called Continuous Dissonance Surface, I'll thank you in my Hugo acceptance speech.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:35:51 -0800

I highly recommend Engineering a consonant tritone