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by floatingatoll 1688 days ago
I can barely do this, at a naturally-occurring rate of maybe one image a month or less. But I can pick up music instantly.
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Really interesting in this thread about how so many see images or hear voices. I always have strong threads of music, always available at any moment. I bet all musicians have this. I used to wish when I was a child that I could jack my brain to a stereo system for instant playback and bypass the effort of writing things down.
This reminded me of a spiral/helix of fifths music theory poster I had twenty years ago. I can't find it now, but in my research, this came up:

Music Through Computation, Carl McTague, 2003 International Mathematica Symposium https://www.mctague.org/carl/music/computer/talks/music-talk...

And it does indeed have a nice picture for "Helix of Fifths" that is a dry black and white sketch of what was on that poster.

Ouch my poor brain went into shock reading that! I'd done all I could to forget schenkerian analysis and now it's all flooding back. Aside from that, nice intro to helical harmony.
I'm sorry / cheers :)