Time to blow your mind. Today’s video is a visual representation of J.S. Bach’s “Canon” that was written to be able to be played forward and backward–and simultaneously front to back.
Genius composition on display. Seemingly simple and even mundane. Just wait for it to unfold.
Apparently composed in response to a composition challenge by King Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia) in 1747. This “puzzle canon” is also known as a “Crab Canon” (look up the definition here).
Enjoy!
Refresh and Revise
Does God read our lives from front to back,
from birth to death’s last fence,
or does the Lord reverse the track
to bring back innocence?
Does reversal strip away
the sins that we acquired
to unearth the childrens’ play
of which we never should have tired,
for He did say loud and clear
that on thus is His Kingdom found,
and so He would have us draw near
to what might yet again be found,
the gentle and unfettered laughter
that is the language of Hereafter.
Now, that was good! It gets your mind working. Thanks, Steve.
I might be of interest to note that that Canon is used as part of the soundtrack for the film The Gospel According to Matthew by Pasolini (1964) one of the greatest Christ centered films ever made.
J.S. Bach was such a genius. As a piano student, I used to play some of his two-part inventions, and I can’t imagine the mind it took to create them. I had never heard of the “crab” canon until today, though. I love the way it was presented on a Möbius strip. Very clever.
Thank you for this great advice.
How interesting! It sounds superb, either way!
That was so cool.
Mindblowing.