Musicartography
August 19, 2009 2:01 PM Subscribe
A piano has 88 keys; Ohio has 88 counties. Cartographer Andy Woodruff noticed this fact while driving through Ohio to complete his Counties Visited Map, and decided, despite knowing nothing about music, to make a map based on this coincidence.
I have to say the song for traveling from Gallipolis to Cincinnati accurately captures the soul-crushing distress of driving in Southern Ohio. Or anywhere else in Ohio, for that matter.
Seriously, though, this is pretty sweet.
posted by Copronymus at 2:24 PM on August 19, 2009
Seriously, though, this is pretty sweet.
posted by Copronymus at 2:24 PM on August 19, 2009
This should be applied to Survivor so the contestants can be noted off the island.
posted by ...possums at 2:26 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by ...possums at 2:26 PM on August 19, 2009
Beethoven's Fifth sounds like the maestro has decomposed a little bit.
posted by yhbc at 2:28 PM on August 19, 2009 [4 favorites]
posted by yhbc at 2:28 PM on August 19, 2009 [4 favorites]
Go Internet Go! Loved it.
posted by whimsicalnymph at 2:29 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by whimsicalnymph at 2:29 PM on August 19, 2009
That is pretty great.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 2:29 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 2:29 PM on August 19, 2009
And with that version of The Entertainer, now is the time to introduce the USians of MeFi to the godlike genius that was Les Dawson.
posted by i_cola at 2:38 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by i_cola at 2:38 PM on August 19, 2009
Yeah. That's really really cool.
posted by eyeballkid at 2:50 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by eyeballkid at 2:50 PM on August 19, 2009
Really awesome. And a good way to drive the dog nuts.
posted by functionequalsform at 2:58 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by functionequalsform at 2:58 PM on August 19, 2009
Four of them sound kind of dead. But you could probably still make a song out of that.
posted by Nick Verstayne at 2:59 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by Nick Verstayne at 2:59 PM on August 19, 2009
Totally awesome. Thank you for this post.
posted by lazaruslong at 3:05 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by lazaruslong at 3:05 PM on August 19, 2009
The black keys on the piano are a different color, and a different type of note. All the counties turn white when you play any note. It would have been even cooler if the sharps and flats flashed black.
Still, as it is, very impressive.
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 3:11 PM on August 19, 2009
Still, as it is, very impressive.
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 3:11 PM on August 19, 2009
Cool. If you hurry, you can get more than one assigned data set playing at once.
posted by mediareport at 3:13 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by mediareport at 3:13 PM on August 19, 2009
Now when I go to a wedding this weekend I'll impress/scare my family with "There is a song hidden in OHIO"
posted by graventy at 3:14 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by graventy at 3:14 PM on August 19, 2009
Stuff like this makes me unreasonably happy. Thank you, internets. You have served your purpose.
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 3:41 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by nakedcodemonkey at 3:41 PM on August 19, 2009
Favorite combinations:
-- Downward progression from "Cincinatti" to "Dayton" to "Toledo" (set to "Pop2004")
-- "No Farms97," "Vacant," and "Renter Occ" (set to "Pop2004")
--- Playing "The Entertainer" anywhere
this is pretty sweet --- and you get to play along!
posted by puckish at 3:46 PM on August 19, 2009
-- Downward progression from "Cincinatti" to "Dayton" to "Toledo" (set to "Pop2004")
-- "No Farms97," "Vacant," and "Renter Occ" (set to "Pop2004")
--- Playing "The Entertainer" anywhere
this is pretty sweet --- and you get to play along!
posted by puckish at 3:46 PM on August 19, 2009
In my third-grade Ohio History class, they pointed this correspondence out to us. Given that I remember this, twenty or thirty years later, I'd say it was very effective.
posted by box at 4:15 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by box at 4:15 PM on August 19, 2009
Hah, when my car broke down in Newark, I yelled "F!!!!"
Little did I know I was right!
posted by not_on_display at 4:58 PM on August 19, 2009
Little did I know I was right!
posted by not_on_display at 4:58 PM on August 19, 2009
Probably the best thing ever done with Ohio.
I keed, I keed.
posted by pointless_incessant_barking at 5:27 PM on August 19, 2009
I keed, I keed.
posted by pointless_incessant_barking at 5:27 PM on August 19, 2009
The scale is messed up if you assign notes by "Med Age F" and then play the data "Med Age F" - you should hear all 88 notes from lowest to highest, but it goes backward for three notes in a row twice as it plays.
posted by scrowdid at 6:24 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by scrowdid at 6:24 PM on August 19, 2009
gotta love maps like this. if only his indiemaps project was live, it'd be even better.
posted by pappy at 6:48 PM on August 19, 2009
posted by pappy at 6:48 PM on August 19, 2009
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