Foürier Elise (full)

The full melodic reconstruction, with harmonic drones, as featured in my recent video, "Can a Bunch of Circles Play Für Elise?"
Subscribe to my Patreon for an extra special version of this: / marcevanstein
(It's really good. And I would never tell a lie...and hurt you.)

[@cartatowegs5080]

For those who didn't get what the patreon song was, it's Never Gonna Give You Up

[@williambrewer3150]

Could swear it was Darude - Sandstorm

[@lexibyday9504]

@@williambrewer3150 both great memes

[@FoxDog1080]

I like the fact that it never got to the point where it was recognizable

[@RailsofForney]

I hated it

[@RailsofForney]

It’s literally in the name, literally never done.

[@tratixmusic8884]

Theres something so beautiful yet so ominous about this. I love it. It also sounds so unnatural, yet theres something organic to it but its not quite there which i think is why it sounds so ominous to me.

[@tinfang-warble]

I'm kind of fascinated by the way that one of the things that emerges early in the low-frequency components & stays pretty consistent are the dips at nπ/4 for n=1,3,5,7, creating the quick dives toward the center. It's beautiful that the periodicity of the melody is baked so deeply into the core of the tune; and I'm struck by the fact that the octave leap in the pickup to m. 5 becomes part of this pattern (foreshadowing the octaves at the end of the digression). I'd never really appreciated the importance of the LH->RH arpeggios making the melody emerge out of the bass in this piece.
In other words, not only is this a beautiful composition in it's own right, but it's also a fascinating & (in my opinion) surprisingly meaningful form of analysis!

[@SZvenM]

Both seeing and hearing it slowly take shape is super interesting. very nice video

[@adora_was_taken]

Super cool video! What if, instead of having the notes play at regular intervals of distance on the curve, you have them play at inflection points? Could make for an interesting sound.

[@marcevanstein]

that's an interesting idea!

[@SapereAude1490]

I do wonder what could be done with Satie's music with this approach.

[@marcevanstein]

because it feels like a slow evolution of contour?

[@SapereAude1490]

@@marcevanstein Yes, exactly.
I'll try to implement it if there isn't already a GitHub repository of yours.

[@Waltitude]

Right in the middle was fantastic and the drone ominous i love

[@pestypig]

very nice!! its almost like the 3 body problem with the moon, earth and sun called the epicycle

[@JudgeFredd]

Awesome work

[@SellusionStar]

Love this!

[@Kram1032]

If you were to force the curve speed to be "correct" such that the notes happen to land on the right moments on top of being the right pitch, would that force a unique (perhaps up to rotation?) or would there still be some leftover freedom to exploit?

[@lastnamefirstname8655]

thank you.

[@ojjusvianimate6793]

so if one was to do this for an orchestral piece with creating seperate analysis' for the different instruments parts could we recreate that whole orchestra??

[@withershin]

Yeah like this is old math. Not being mean but MPEG compression was already running math to make the music and video math smaller back in the 1990's. This stuff isn't new tech. The old code still works.

[@l_ilia]

Freaky Elise... 😼

[@orbrat212]

What if Fur Elise was called freaky elise and it had microtonal notes and sucked on major chords

[@marcevanstein]

The explanation: ruclips.net/video/fxzrpfezezE/видео.html
Let me Fourier-roll you on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/fourier-astlise-103232956

[@skuzzbunny]

i almost hear the Price is Right music early on.....D

[@randomsquidproductions4061]

Could you upload a piano only version?

[@BigParadox]

I never heard it actually arrive at a Für Elise. Was I just inattentive?

[@nileprimewastaken]

the background hums started playing fur elise (edit:starts at about 3:00), but the main pitch, as said in the video, is not sampled evenly, and as such is sort of a free improv following the contour of fur elise

[@BigParadox]

Yes, I can hear it as a free improvisation on Für Elise. I just know that with sufficiently many "wheels" one can arrive there, if the setup is done properly. But maybe the setup in the video is intentionally made to only produce a "free improvisation".

[@zarki-games]

I think if they had just left out the actual background hum of Fur Elise and only left in the fourier stuff, it wouldn't have sounded much like Fur Elise at all and wouldn't have been very impressive, so they added in the hum so it was actually recognizable.

[@nileprimewastaken]

@@zarki-games the background hum is fourier stuff, each circle emits a unique frequency and it gets louder the further along the rotation it is

[@zarki-games]

@@nileprimewastaken oh, okay, this is then much cooler. Thanks!

[@jabelsjabels]

I really need to hear what this sounds like if you do it with a jazz tune. Melody to Donna Lee maybe?

[@inserteunnombreapropiado9079]

So, is this the continuous version of Für Elise?

[@woekin]

I kept hearing the "among us"

[@withershin]

Wait. So we with video evidence we could rate a Conductor. They have to be rocking FTs by talent. Luckily we made computers and coders that can rate them now. How cool would it be if Louis Armstrong's Big Band Conductor was waving the wand to the circles? Orbits. Whatever let us not stall on syntax. It's just code.

[@JoanGonzalezTrolloCat]

i really like the technology and visualization but not the sound

[@phpn99]

unfortunately there is no insight in this