I often come across texts that confuse the concepts of notes and tones. Thus this little blog post that I can refer people when explaining the difference. While the terms “note” and “tone” may be used interchangeably in casual conversation, they have distinct meanings from a music theoretical perspective: Note: A note refers to a symbol in musical notation that tells the musician which pitch to play and for how long....
For my year-long StillStanding project I am generating videograms for all the scenes. Since there is not much motion in these 10-minute recordings, they typically look like stripes. Looking at today’s recording of an unspectacular hotel room in Kongsberg, I noticed how different the horizontal and vertical videogram look: It is fascinating how two averages of the same video recording can be so different. The explanation is simple; they are based on averaging in two different dimensions (horizontal and vertical)....