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See what music looks like in three dimensions

Ruben Bolling
May 27, 2025
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This video explains how 19th century French physicist Jules Antoine Lissajous used tuning forks to map out two-dimensional shapes, called Lissajous curves, that uniquely correspond to every musical interval, the difference in pitch between two notes.

Musician Reuben Levine notes:

"What I find fascinating about this chart is that some element of the charac…

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