plastiquemonkey: In what way was the middle section where three of him were talking at once supposed to be entertaining?

Everyone else: Skip to 3:28 if you want to hear the fugue and base your upvote/downvote/apathy on that.

i guess it was his personal fugue, snake. the youtube page says it was a "silly, pretentious instructional video" he made for a university course, so i guess he wasn't trying hard to entertain us.

everyone else, please watch however much you like. the fugue does start at 3:28

Yeah, it was obvious that he wrote it.

I don't mean to sound offensive but I don't see how watching three of the same person talk at once is entertaining, which was why I asked you what was entertaining about it. Maybe I missed something?

"the youtube page says it was a "silly, pretentious instructional video" he made for a university course, so i guess he wasn't trying hard to entertain us."

Ah, thanks for adding that in your edit. Reason enough for people to skip through to the musical piece.

I think I would have enjoyed it if he actually allowed the audience to hear the explaination.

no, i know he wrote the music. i think the voices overlapping was a way to make a fugue (overlapping voices) using his own talking (about how to make a fugue). i don't know that it worked, but i think that was the idea. it's true that it's hard to understand what he's saying.

again, i think people can watch whatever they want. this is only the queue. if no-one likes it, it won't go to the front page.

agreed, swampgirl *thumbs up*

"again, i think people can watch whatever they want."

I agree. I was giving advice; not a command.

Vote up for the musical performance, *****POWERDOWNVOTEWITHADDEDSMACKDOWN***** for the lead-up "explanation".

all you fugue purists might want to watch this instead:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=9944

nothing personal, plastique ... you didn't make the video! the end bit was clever, but the voice overlapping sequence left a lot to be desired.

I think this is amazingly clever. He's demonstrating how a fugue is constructed by overlapping his voice. Each line in a fugue is the same, but different, and will meet every once in a while. Did you notice how that happened while each of his "selves" was talking? That was brilliant.

If you sit back and listen to his talking as if it were a music piece, I think you'll understand what he was going for. You'll notice the different "tempo." And when there is only one of his "selves" talking, that demonstrates something that I can't remember from music theory. It's...poyphonic something. Maybe.

This really shows how a fugue is constructed (essentially, three different imitations of the same piece) and how they all work together...a tonal centeredness.

This must have been a nightmare to edit.

Thanks for the explanation, daphne.

At least his intentions were good. I don't think it really worked in practice though as his three voices together resulted in a cacophonic mess - the polar opposite of the actual fugue.

plastiquemonkey, I love your posts! Nothing personal. :-)

Hey, obviously this guy made this for folks like me (can't play squat) to appreciate what it was. He was successful at showing how complicated it is, but my laymans ears didn't pick up on the explaination.

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YAY!!

J.S. Bach is beaming with pride! Or is that J. Sbach?

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I appreciate thic, but as stated, I didn't like how he had 3 voices talking. I understand how that is like the music, but i find the music easier to follow with different voices than trying to comprehend 3 people talking at the same time

This video is excellent proof of how and why a good sound mixer earns his or her income. The part with all three people talking could well be made to work, but the mixer would have to be constantly making one voice loudest and bringing the other two down. He had the technology to lay three copies of himself in the video but didn't take the time to make the audio work.

Basically, he missed the whole point of a fugue - that all the lines are overlapping, but the individual notes are rarely playing at the same instant. If they were, it wouldn't be a fugue, just a bunch of dense chords.

For those above who do not get this, the part where the guy is talking over himself IS a fugue, constructed out of similar (but not identical) text. It's funny because he's using this traditional form in a very non-traditional way. Very clever.

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