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TAREK YAMANI

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Giant Steps for Inverted Keyboard: A New Harmonic Challenge
Sep 23, 2016
Giant Steps for Inverted Keyboard: A New Harmonic Challenge
Sep 23, 2016

Discover the sound of Coltrane's Giant Steps on an inverted keyboard.

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Sep 23, 2016
Aug 28, 2016
The Clark Kent Mode of Wayne Shorter: A Jazz Day Diary
Aug 28, 2016

“What’s your name?” he asked.
“Tarek”, I answered.
He said, “No, what’s your name?”
I didn’t expect that I’d be witnessing Wayne’s Zen-hood so fast but here it was happening and I was looking forward to an enlightening experience.

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Aug 28, 2016
The Phrygian Suite: An Unheard Music by J. S. Bach
Jul 14, 2016
The Phrygian Suite: An Unheard Music by J. S. Bach
Jul 14, 2016

My hands were physically playing the French Suite No. 4 but the music that was coming out was like nothing I’ve heard before. It sounded mysterious and haunting and unlike anything Bach has ever written.

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Jul 14, 2016
How I Combined Poetry, Numerology & Jazz to Compose an 'Epic' Valentine Gift
Feb 22, 2016
How I Combined Poetry, Numerology & Jazz to Compose an 'Epic' Valentine Gift
Feb 22, 2016

If letters of the alphabet were assigned numerological values which represent the distance in half steps from C, each letter will have a sound; poems will become music.

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Feb 22, 2016
What is the Sound of a Rectangle?
Feb 5, 2015
What is the Sound of a Rectangle?
Feb 5, 2015

I noticed something extremely interesting while I was refreshing my memory about frequencies in the musical scale. There’s a striking similarity between interval ratios that compose the scale and the aspect ratios used for TVs, computers, cinema and photography.

What blew my mind even more is that the current aspect ratio used in the widescreen cinema standard is mysteriously related to the old Pythagorean tuning.

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Feb 5, 2015
Illusions in Music: On Transforming Rhythm into Harmony Using Speed
Dec 4, 2014
Illusions in Music: On Transforming Rhythm into Harmony Using Speed
Dec 4, 2014

The oneness of rhythm and harmony is fascinating. If we maintain the same ratio between the various instances of a beat and apply enormous speed to it, it will transform inside our mind into a chord. The chord will have notes that are away from each other by the exact same proportions that were separating the beats in time.

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Dec 4, 2014
Jazz is dead. Arabic music is dead. Thank God for reincarnation.
Dec 23, 2013
Jazz is dead. Arabic music is dead. Thank God for reincarnation.
Dec 23, 2013

Music genres are dying all the time. The future of music depends on their death. If they don’t, there won’t be any reincarnations and therefore no new music.

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Dec 23, 2013