Re: Palindromic movie


kibby wrote:
Proginoskes wrote:
Andy Spragg wrote:
On 24 Mar 2006 22:43:30 -0800, Proginoskes wrote:

Babono wrote:
There's a short movie (56 sec) which is totaly the same when you look it
forwards or backwards - real palindromic movie.
Not only that picture is the same, but also sound (music) is the same
regardless of playing direction.
Even a title of the movie is a palindrome (altough, in croatian).

http://max.tportal.hr/start.asp?xmlFilePath=http://www.tportal.hr/maxxml/stosekundislave/index.xml&flvFilePath=http://www.tportal.hr/objects/Video/2006/03/17/0371038.777.html

Do you know which music is that? I don't know any palindromic music.
Probably, it's not so easy to make such a music.

Actually it is. Record any piece of music. Play it for the first half
of the composition. Reverse the tape, and play it to get the second
half.

Well, yes, obviously. But the second half would not in general sound very
musical. Furthermore, you could replace "music" in the above recipe with
"anything at all", and the entire result would not in general be remotely
musical. A tape recorder is an instrument in a class of its own, really
isn't it: 100% echolalic. Would you count a 100% echolalic person as
someone who "made speech"?

The OP asked for a sound which sounded the same forwards and backwards.


Of course, composing a piece which has the same notes forwards and
backwards isn't too difficult, either; you can compose a piece
consisting of one note ("A"), or you can do something more elaborate
like the Crab's Canon in _Godel, Escher, Bach_.

There's a world of interesting compositions outside of Bach's crab canon.
A more modern composer Paul Hindemith wrote a much longer (and
critically considered more substantial) piece called "Ludus Tonalis," where
if the performer were to rotate the music 180 degrees, it would read the
exact same (as was the case with Bach). [...]

The late pianist/comedian Victor Borge did this with a piece of music
that _didn't_ reverse. He played it with "the wrong side up", stopped,
rotated it 180 degrees, then played something familiar. I don't
remember what it was, but it was part of one of his performances.

--- Christopher Heckman

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