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Coltrane's Tone CircleExploring the circle of fifths, its jazz applications, and Coltrane's geometric approach to harmony
A clear walkthrough of John Coltrane’s famous tone-circle sketch: the circle of fifths, geometric harmony, and how jazz musicians still use the diagram today.
11 min · 2,485 words
What Is Gridification? The Hidden Shift in Recorded Music
Jeffrey Anthony of the Musical Form Institute defines 'gridification', the shift over 25 years toward recorded music locked to a quantized time grid, by comparing the 1975 and 2025 Billboard top five songs and arguing why the loss of human timing matters.
10 min · 2,241 words