James Tenney - For Ann (rising)

[joshanator1]

A masterpiece in laziness if you ask me!

[natetenney72]

Redundancy at its finest

[2468archie2]

Open roof doors....

[ChemicalBrother92]

Escape Velocity!!

[Armydillo22602]

Oh this is very disturbing. Poor Ann! Poor Ann! He must've run her over with a motorcycle!

[bassobeats]

yes managed to focus on one tone until it disappeared out of range. im done now. i never have to listen to this again.

[IrishLebaneseBeast]

@Halileet I started with googolplex... moved onto the big freeze, proton decay, and big crunch and oscillating universe theories... and somehow ended up here o_O

I love wikipedia.

[scitsalcoryp]

EAr yaa Go GO GOoO ggOOOOOoooo oooo

Fun Song

[MrNapcake]

1.61803398874.......

[19ZeldaLover95]

@MrNapcake what exactly does that have to do with anything?

[verdemanthe1]

my brother listened to this for a hole hour and he burst into flames.dont listen to this video or else

[clubpenguin1help]

How is this music? sure it's interesting shit but it isn't music. :I

[AEFic]

@clubpenguin1help Music is art created with the medium of pitches placed in time. Both of which I detect. So yeah, it is music.

[poddypoldi]

@clubpenguin1help

Sounds?

[scitsalcoryp]

Scraping and cleanin ou the cranium

[MuseDuCafe]

Ah, ha ha ha. It's enough of a jerk-around for those of us with good relative pich -- and-- I'd LOVE to see how this messes with the absolute pitch crowd:-)

Nice audio illusion. Doesn't need the bludgeoned to death over-exposed Escher, though.

[scitsalcoryp]

This is one of the coolest pieces ever

[starboy2013]

that makes me feel sick......

[woahdudecool]

Listen to this and watch the natural hallucinogen on mute. My mind is officially lost.

[theyvekilledkenny]

Wow, how stupid. Shit, I never want to learn math ever again.

[re3000]

Herbert Eimert did that in '63.

[ryandrums1001]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHH ENDLESSSS LOOOOOP

[ellasar777]

@DaNorthernLight So well said.

[dentpopcan]

my names zack tenney, good to see a famous tenney around 

[widsith2000]

if you press the replay numbers in quick succession, it sounds like Balinese gamelan :D

[Psythik]

How is this a song? Wikipedia, you lied to me!

[SumWunGye]

@Psythik It's a song because you can find it on iTunes.

Duhhh. :P

[meanmoegel87]

MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOOOOOO

[simnice]

nice

[mattman937]

this is what happens when ya look up proportions on wikipedia...

[philnoll]

@mattman937 haha

[Guitareben]

@mattman937 AHahahahahaa i just came from wikipedia!!!!!

[aMangledBook]

@Guitareben whoa, me too!

[GasparoContarini]

I hope Ann enjoyed her weird jet engine loops

[stealmyface]

1.618

[drmicrophone33]

Sounds like some 70's sci-fi background music.

[RustyEraser]

I am fucking listening to Phi right now!

[deliafcipe]

@Halileet Hahahahah. I did exactly the same thing as you. Golden Ratios in music?

[harranjo]

am i the only one whose head just exploded

[deliafcipe]

@harranjo My head esploded too.

[hunterx2591]

@deliafcipe head?? 0.0 most of my body exploded :p

[hgarland]

Thank you for up-loading this! There is a very good discussion at Wikipedia under "Shepard Tone."

[zaphodb777]

Play it backwards, and it becomes infinitely depressing.

The music of the Langoliers.

[106627bg]

weird... I heard loud clacks during the song (like a pendulum on a clock) and now the song is over and I hear water.

[lovesGenet]

This actually scared me at first.Tenney was something .Full of ideas. Wish I had had a chance to study with him.

[digitulpunk]

Interesting, it turns into a loop... Wow.

[ninjabassplayer]

extreme mathmatics in electronic music, nice!

[YofterMofter]

And that's why I love motorsport.

[Caqui]

If you listen to this 20 times, then spin around twice, your head explodes.

[eDiabRO]

golden ratio..:D

[MrPepper1616]

fuck this makes me feel uncomfortable

extreme crescendos make me nervous as hell

[Jakomancer]

@MrPepper1616 its not a crescendo you piece of shit

[tunes2313]

@Jakomancer

you're awesome.

[jizzlobber87]

@Jakomancer What an amazing sentence!

[HappiestEmoYouKnow]

What a perfect example of the devine proportion in music! wonderful!

[TheCanCollecter]

In easy terms, how does the brain make you think that it's rising? I mean, I think I got this right. So, the top fades out while the bottom replaces it... But how does that make it sounds like it keeps going?

[Eyedunno]

@TheCanCollecter

For the simplest way to do this, you use two note chords (double-stops) exactly an octave apart. The sum of the volumes of both notes stays the same, however one note is fading out while the other is fading in. The constant overall volume combined with the fact that the notes are always rising as long as you can hear them tricks you into thinking it rises indefinitely.

[GarethWonfor]

also sounds like car gear changes up and down ...

[5kyhigh1]

one of my favorite tunes

[ogopolo]

WHAT THE FUUU-----BOOOOOMMM HAHAHAHAHAH

[ASharawadji]

the escher painting describes this perfectly :D

[BoKaUm88]

fighter jet engine starting infinitely times

[barerandom]

that sound strangely reminds me of climaxing during sex.....dont ask. but if u get what i mean its really weird lol.

[TheCanCollecter]

@barerandom I think I feel you.

[MissLizzieLu]

ARGH! Brain confuzzling

[RandyRhoadsIsGod1]

pretty cool... its an audital illusion called a shepard scale that makes sound of a seemingly never end ascending scale

[TheCanCollecter]

@RandyRhoadsIsGod1 In easy terms, how does the brain make you think that? I mean, I think I got this right. So, the top fades out while the bottom replaces it... But how does that make it sounds like it keeps going?

[benlumb2]

this is seriously creepy... would not seem out of place in a 1960s horror film

[BrotherBones1111]

The golden ratio.

[IEATn00bZORZ]

LOL @ people forced to choreograph to this

[bearkill]

wow this is intense

[lotec11]

AGHAGHGAHGHAGHG  make it stop!

[JamesGod08]

This is like listening to a police car siren whilst on a spinning teacup ride

[TFFgeek]

If I would listen to the full 12-minute version and my ears bleed spontaniously, it was TOTALLY worth it!

[BIGEE5]

I think I just traveled backwards through time.

[jimmytdot]

Its interesting how this piece works... Check Head rhythm 1 by Maryanne Amacher off of "Sound Characters" ( making the Third Ear) This one is cool because i found my self listening to individual tones and it would seem they go out of our frequency range and an identical wave comes in so it seems the same range is repeating over and over again with out realization of audio editing... pretty cool

[guavacaffeine]

my brain doesn't like this.. i find myself just following one specific tone rather than listening to the whole thing :P Is that a typical response?

[BlockisticStudios]

yes, this is called a shepard's scale

[sneakatdatavibe]

@Kermit4Prezident

I think that may be due in part to the processing done by whatever audio compression algorithm is in use by Youtube in these videos. This audio is specifically trying to short-circuit the psychoacoustic model, and that may not translate well through a compression and decompression process designed to exploit human methods of audio perception.

[lawnboy235]

I agree that it's not danceable, but that's only because it hasn't had a beat put behind it yet. Imagine those rising tones with a banging house beat behind it. You can't tell me that wouldn't get your tail feather moving. ^^

[blackestgift]

@lawnboy235 lol ill dj it in to a song and post it with in the week see if it can helo millions of dancers out there

[blackestgift]

i have to horeograph a dance to the golden ratio and this is what it gives me for music god well i just failed this year, dont get me wrong like in the mathamatical senswe its a good peice but dance wise im screwed

[ConductorsHateMe]

This song is very special, because it is the only thing that I have ever experienced aurally that has ever driven me to almost unbearable physical pain. Don't get me wrong, it is genius and I love it, but its just... scarred, there is so much emotion in this piece it is incredible.

[Kermit4Prezident]

Anyone else start subconsciously hearing other stuff in there too? Like your brain's trying to stop the confusion by distracting it with something else?

[justinmarcusyoung]

my cat is going crazy

[mynameisandycostello]

So is this an excerpt, or is it the entire composition?

[peach222]

It's an excerpt. The entire thing is 12 minutes long.

[KariiKarKariiyo]

Very catchy.

[LjStar1992]

I'm sorry but how am I meant to choreograph to this?! It's insane! It has no beat or anything, it's really just a siren that goes on and on ...

[theworldofjon]

I meet James, he rocked : )

[RohanSimpsonBlack]

but you can hear when each lower note starts, breaking the illusion. only when you let go does it sound like it never stops rising. it is a harmonic utilisation of the golden ratio, but not a rhythmic one.

[aal5124]

Beam me up, Scotty.

[DanyoSound]

A classic masterpiece of the second half of the Twentieth Century (says me).  Too bad the entire piece was not uploaded.

[thisiswhereiwatch]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

[tritanopia]

I love Shepard Tones!

[Kinescoop]

Holy Sh... Molly! :) It's an Audible Psychodelic Drug ! :) I cannot withstand listening to it for more than just few seconds. Crazy indeed.

If I were Ann, I would not be happy if anyone would dedicate such a thing to me :)

Wonders of maths can be beautiful and frightening the same time.

[ebmusicman84]

From wikipedia:

Each tone starts so that it is the golden ratio (in between an equal tempered minor and major sixth) below the previous tone, so that the combination tones produced by all consecutive tones are a lower or higher pitch already, or soon to be, produced.

[juaneco1980]

music and pic go together perfect, they both give me vertigo.

[meelkins]

what does this have to do with the golden ratio?

[guugolpl0x]

It doesn't. Why would you think it does?

[superearthbender]

sound waves. *yawn*

[seraphale]

look it up on wikipedia.. it's an audible application

of the golden ratio.