Music Of The Spheres: The Harmonic Series Played By Planets

The first 16 notes of the musical harmonic series are played by a hypothetical planetary system. The frequency of each planet, which determines its pitch and rhythm, is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency played by the outer planet (1, 2, 3,…,16). These are also the pitches produced when an oscillating string is divided into equal length segments or the rhythms produced when a bar of music is divided into equal lengths of time.

Created by Matt Russo, Dan Tamayo and Andrew Santaguida 2017.
Inspired by GIF master Dave Whyte @beesandbombs

[whywouldyouwanttoknow]

woke up
fell out of bed
dragged a comb across my head

[helenaolivier]

The collective dissonant harmony sounds like what I hear whenever I have been for an operation and get given anesthesia through a mask just before I get knocked out lol

[hyacinthgainsborough]

The intervals between 8:16 blew my mind, put it back together and then blew it again

[sentientCoding]

have you seen the plasmoid unification model or tried this with pythagorean tuning or things like this?

[mmmnnn]

Why are no comments talking about the supernova at the end?

[haroldmelfrennepomuceno]

Coldplay's Everyday Life brought me here. Amazing!

[botmesso]

I went deaf because of this, what an amazing composition XD

[williamgoughmusician]

The 9th harmonic (D) is too flat. Supposed to be 4 cents above ET

[taramas]

Are these the planets of our solar system or another planetary system?

[weskerwewe]

Watched the whole video waiting for it to sound like Destiny's Music of the Spheres soundtrack and now realised i have been had

[WhyIsJupiterInTheFridge]

That star had enough of the planets nosiness!

[BillyButcher]

The first notes almost sounded like "It's All Coming Back To Me Now" by Celine Dion.

[DanDanNode]

Rhythm. You have it or you don't. That's a fallacy.

[DanDanNode]

Rhythm. You have it or you don't. That's a fallacy.

[DanDanNode]

Rhythm. You have it or you don't. That's a fallacy.