A new way to visualize musical chords

Science Moment 388

My newest Science Moment episode is about a new way to systematically organize musical chords as vectors in a space. And, it also serves as a “metric,” i.e., chords closer in this space are perceptually closer, and have more similar interpretations by your brain. Chord progressions do not move randomly in this space, but, rather, have particular tendencies, something I’ll get at in future videos.