Collin Burns 5.25 WR Single Played on a Piano

[jblake17]

This video is a response to the TED-Ed video, "How to play a Rubik’s Cube like a piano" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW2Hvs5WaRY).

Listen to the chord progression of Collin Burns's 5.25 world record single!

 

[modakshantanu]

Even I watched that TED video but i was confused. How do you associate each position with a chord?

 

[jblake17]

I assigned the chords shown in the video:
Green: C-Major
Yellow: D-Minor
Red: A-Major
White: B-Major
Blue: Eb-Major
Orange: D-Major

This is how all the notes were mapped onto each face:

 

[guysensei1]

This is cool, speed it up to real time

 

[jblake17]

Tried that - sounds like a huge mess

 

[Isaac Lai]

This is very weird lol...

 

[OLLiver]

even as a decent pianist this confuses me immensely

 

[jblake17]

even as a decent pianist this confuses me immensely

Not sure if this helps, but the first half of the chord progression maps the notes played on the white face because he starts with white. After he finishes F2L, it switches to yellow. Using the method described in the TED video, only the notes on one single face are played at a time. Therefore, given the layer-by-layer structure of CFOP, it makes sense to play the notes on the cross face for cross and F2L, and then the notes on the opposite face for OLL and PLL.

 

[Please Dont Ask]

Watch in speed 2!!
You can thank me later

 

[jblake17]

Watch in speed 2!!
You can thank me later

Haha good idea :tu

 

[Petro Leum]

so.... how am i supposed to sleep tonight?

 

[jblake17]

so.... how am i supposed to sleep tonight?

Yes the majority of it is very discordant - it's not until a face is solved that a harmonious chord is played.

 

[AlexMaass]

what if you do this, but have it play the notes of each face when it is turned?

 

[StachuK1992]

Collin is not very good at the piano.

 

[jblake17]

what if you do this, but have it play the notes of each face when it is turned?

I thought about that - it seems less arbitrary than tracking just two individual faces. But if the notes of every face were played, every turn would sound the same because all the notes would always be played at the same time. So it wouldn't reflect any progression from the scrambled state to the solved state.

I wonder if there are other, better ways to represent a full permutation of the cube with chords.

Collin is not very good at the piano.

It would be interesting to take the chord progression of a REAL song and use that to scramble the cube. I wonder if any particularly repetitive tunes would actually produce interesting color patterns...

 

[AlexMaass]

I thought about that - it seems less arbitrary than tracking just two individual faces. But if the notes of every face were played, every turn would sound the same because all the notes would always be played at the same time. So it wouldn't reflect any progression from the scrambled state to the solved state.

I wonder if there are other, better ways to represent a full permutation of the cube with chords.

but wouldn't the notes be different every turn, so the sound would be different every time

 

[WayneMigraine]

This sounds exactly like it could have been written by Toru Takemitsu or Iannis Xenakis or any other number of post modernist classical composers lol.

 

[rj]

Let's do a Vangelis scramble.
Lots of R moves.

 

[jblake17]

but wouldn't the notes be different every turn, so the sound would be different every time

Do you mean that all of the notes for every face would be played at the same time?

This sounds exactly like it could have been written by Toru Takemitsu or Iannis Xenakis or any other number of post modernist classical composers lol.

Interesting...

Let's do a Vangelis scramble.
Lots of R moves.

Yes! :tu