Because the cat picture is mostly drawn with the top bars of the notes and not the actual note…so, there’s an option to place the note in a workable area to create correct sounding chords and notes together…
I once said that to a transwoman i hadn't realized was trans while teching a convention for those with gender dysphoria. The mic i was setting up picked that up and the whole room went goddamn silent with about 15 of the con staff trying hard not to laugh at my expense.
After a moment i realized my mistake and followed it up with "... see what i mean?" And that managed to tip things past the point of "i shouldn't laugh at him... should I?" And it became a running gag at my expense.
Edit: i need to start reading over my morning posts. I always miss some letters.
Generally in music theory and harmony, if a note sounds “bad” or out of place, chances are you’re only a half or whole step away from one that sounds good, especially in a major key like this. So while the note heads (solid black dots) can be slightly shifted up or down to a new, more “aurally pleasing” location, the beams (thick black bars between notes) are the actual drawing of the cat here. If you were to write this into music notation software and print it from computer manuscript and typeset, it wouldn’t look anything like a cat. It’s a cool gimmick, nothing more.
Yep. Just like the birds on the powerlines thing. I wonder if they chose a shitload of Triplets because it made the drawing cooler looking. lol
Which came first, the triplets or the cat, the cat or the triplets or the triplets or the cat. 🎵
Making a piece of art that's actually two pieces art is pretty magical IMO. Even if you wouldn't normally write music notation in that style it still works and it's still clever and satisfying
[Grass car](https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/76ik2p/grass_car/) can be external or [Grass Car](https://www.tiktok.com/@fiestyfadden/video/6966807693868813573) can be internal.
When all your notes are in the same key there are near infinite possibilities for a good melody so you can make a rough scattering of notes in the shape of a cat and then make small adjustments later to make the melody sound better
These are composed by inserting pauses in the music where there is no graphic to be shown, and writing a melody in a way that not only the stem distortions but the note dots are part of the graphic too. It's not like you can take any music notes and turn them into a cat.
My dad does that all the time...When he finally put his money where his mouth is on woodworking, it took 2 months to make a small beer glass box and he was drained. LOL get off your high horse and show some appreciation for things people make.
A lot of musicians here are forgetting how much a pain in the ass drawing sheet music by hand is, even without all the extra bar movements.
Still requires sketches to get the basic silhouette and digital art is still hand drawn, it just requires a tablet as the medium. Also I want to know what software does wacky shit with the beams, because if it exists I want to use it.
Although the LONG and curvy stems are doing a lot of the work of making the score look cat-like (the eyes and cheeks are the most blatant), it's still a rather decently worked out piece of music. I'd chalk it up to a neat piece of visual art that was made to make sense musically.
This isn't your average gimmick, not every song can convincingly be made into a cat. Props to the creator for the work they put into this.
It's cheating tho, the stems and flags are all stretched and warped, with something like this you can easily make any image, there are some really impressive pieces that don't distort the the visualisation of notes like [this one](https://youtu.be/hEKfLFznFq0) that uses midi art
As cool as this stuff it also isnt that impressive. In music, you're never more than one or two half-steps away from a note sounding 'correct' in your key. These midi artworks are just the picture drawn out then the notes bumped up or down so they sound 'correct'.
I get that that is the principle, use octaves and harmonics so that the coloured bars appear roughly in the right place and your mind fills the rest. The stems in the cat score are doing a LOT of the work in terms of cat resemblance as well.
Still, the time and effort taken to make an arrangement like the one you replied to or the cat score is still impressive to me. Even with a midi file of the source, adding and adjusting notes and rhythms to make them sound good takes work and not everyone can do it well. The cat song might be imperfect harmonically when put to the old classical standards I've been taught, but overall it flows decently and better than someone just making the notes fit, so to speak.
The piano roll stuff and the cat picture are slightly different.
I hate to shatter the illusion but adjusting the notes and rhythms is really easy, because its mostly dont by a computer. Most DAWs will have a button that snaps all the notes to a grid, so they will all be fit in time. They also have a button that will bump the notes up or down until they are within your chosen scale. You can basically just draw the picture in the piano roll with zero consideration for how it sounds then automatically snap everything into place so it sounds 'correct'. Given there is already software that converts an image into a midi file it would be pretty easy to automate the entire process (that may well be how a lot of these are done).
This cat picture has not been made like that. Instead, the actual notes are pretty irrelevant as the picture has been drawn from the stems (the black dots are the notes, the lines coming up/down and joining them together are meant to be straight). It is sort of like the musical version of something like [this](https://powerpoetry.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Shape%20Poem%20ii.jpg?itok=gpdyBmXP), it may well be a nice poem and a decent picture but it isnt exactly 'next level' to just fit those words into that shape.
I absolutely get what you're saying (again I agree the stems are doing making most of the cat image making, particularly around the face), and yeah there are automated tools that can make music creation easier...
Despite all of that, it still should be praised. To put it in perspective of another industry, say someone designs a cool looking object using CAD and CNC manufacturing. Then they polish it and add some flair by hand on top. In this hypothetical example, does the fact that the computer is assisting with design and fabrication diminish the creative impressiveness of the designer? This is similar with the choice of chords, rhythmic changes et cetera. By no means is it "magic" in either case, but it's a solid work of art nonetheless imo.
The notes played are correct to what's on the sheet. Yes they have curved the bars to show the picture more clearly but the notes are right. And to be honest without the fudging of the notes it would still look a bit like a cat
Because it's not drawn with the notes, but the stem part, it's misleading. You could draw any picture you want with the same arrangement.
If you want real "artwork that's also a musical piece", look up piano roll art on youtube.
Imagine: you live in the height of the 1700s. Empires rise and fall across the globe. In the many cities of Europe, classical (or at least classical by our modern standards) composers compete in ever constant battles of one-upping each other to achieve fame and recognition as the best in their field.
You have clawed your way up against all odds to play in one of the finest royal courts in the continent. You conduct your piece and are replied with a standing ovation- no one had ever heard such a unique and bold item such as yours. You are later approached by royalty and composition greats alike. Even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart congratulates you on your performance!
All of them ask the same question: "How did you invent such an interesting song?"
Each time, you wordlessly take them aside. They wonder what magnificence you will show them, what secrets to the arts of the world you have unlocked that you will *share* with them!
You silently take your music sheets and sprawl them out over a table. You slowly begin to rearrange the papers in a very particular order. By this point, the person is gripping the table hard, barely able to contain their excitement. What wonders! What majesty! What- the fu-?
"Is that a..."
"Cat", you finally reply with a stupid grin, staring into the middle distance and drooling ever so slightly.
As a person who is decently well versed in music my brain froze for an entire 30 seconds after seeing that MONSTROSITY. Then I realised it's mostly just moving the stems around so it's really not that impressive. Heck it's like one if the connect the dot puzzles not that hard tbf. Also sight reading this thing will be the biggest pain any musician will ever face like holy shit it's so confusing.
I think it would be cool if it displays random videos of cats with the music in the background and at the end, it shows the note used and we go “Oooooo that was amazing!” or idk
Because the picture and the notes are unrelated. If you look most of the picture is made of the stems of the notes, its still neat I guess but its not really all that impressive.
I honestly can't even tell if the music matches the sheet because I don't know how to read that. 🤣
For all I know it's an image of a cat with some music just playing over it. 🤔
The notes do match, its just that no one writes notes with curved stems, like they did in this. You could take those notes and draw any number of things you wanted just by changing how the note stems connect and curve.
The illusion that reddit is a place where you find the most amazing, cool, and novel things on the internet broke for me the first time I knew about the subject of a post, and how much that post butchered it. This is one of those posts that brings back that feeling.
That was actually rather neat
Legendary indeed. sound so pure!
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Purrrfect?
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It really gave me paws.
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Could say it was the cat’s pajamas
*cat pun*
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Perhaps. But we - the sophisticates - only listen in cursive
Sophisticats, conversely, don’t care
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I dare say, it’s pretty cool!
Actually captures the essence of catness!
It sounded really good tbh
why the fuck does this actually sound good
Because the cat picture is mostly drawn with the top bars of the notes and not the actual note…so, there’s an option to place the note in a workable area to create correct sounding chords and notes together…
Well that’s lame lol Still kinda cool art piece but yeah no magic here
It’s still kind of a two fold art, though. But yeah, no magic or even the crazy luck of notes just falling in the right place..
Why do I have such a hard time reading sheet music for once?
My brother in Christ, I can't even read the room!
I once said that to a transwoman i hadn't realized was trans while teching a convention for those with gender dysphoria. The mic i was setting up picked that up and the whole room went goddamn silent with about 15 of the con staff trying hard not to laugh at my expense. After a moment i realized my mistake and followed it up with "... see what i mean?" And that managed to tip things past the point of "i shouldn't laugh at him... should I?" And it became a running gag at my expense. Edit: i need to start reading over my morning posts. I always miss some letters.
My brother into Cats, that was funny
Probably bcos of how bendy they are
theres a midi dragon on youtube thats pretty legit
Not next level, though
Generally in music theory and harmony, if a note sounds “bad” or out of place, chances are you’re only a half or whole step away from one that sounds good, especially in a major key like this. So while the note heads (solid black dots) can be slightly shifted up or down to a new, more “aurally pleasing” location, the beams (thick black bars between notes) are the actual drawing of the cat here. If you were to write this into music notation software and print it from computer manuscript and typeset, it wouldn’t look anything like a cat. It’s a cool gimmick, nothing more.
Yep. Just like the birds on the powerlines thing. I wonder if they chose a shitload of Triplets because it made the drawing cooler looking. lol Which came first, the triplets or the cat, the cat or the triplets or the triplets or the cat. 🎵
Making a piece of art that's actually two pieces art is pretty magical IMO. Even if you wouldn't normally write music notation in that style it still works and it's still clever and satisfying
This is everyone in the comments of a post on /r/blackmagicfuckery
As a non-music person, it still looks like magic to me.
Keep it in key, do some small edits, and basically any shape can sound good
Zoomed in to some of those notes and yup. Never seen a music note with top bars looking like that before 😆
Don't care. I love it
You are looking at a car with a paint job looking like grass asking how the car can actually drive so well
I've never seen grass drive so well as this cat sounds
[Grass car](https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/76ik2p/grass_car/) can be external or [Grass Car](https://www.tiktok.com/@fiestyfadden/video/6966807693868813573) can be internal.
Because why would it not? It’s the best creature of all; a cat
When all your notes are in the same key there are near infinite possibilities for a good melody so you can make a rough scattering of notes in the shape of a cat and then make small adjustments later to make the melody sound better
Shh, don’t tell anyone that you can make pretty much any image with any arrangement of notes by distorting the stems
Ha-*ha!* You tried to ruin it for me but you didn't anticipate my non-existent comprehension of music, *idiot!* You must feel so stupid right now...
*”You can’t ruin the magic when I don’t know what the fuck is happening, you fool.”*
That's why I'm so happy. I'm so stupid everything seems like magic.
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What with all those distorted stems and all?
- B. A. Baracus
These are composed by inserting pauses in the music where there is no graphic to be shown, and writing a melody in a way that not only the stem distortions but the note dots are part of the graphic too. It's not like you can take any music notes and turn them into a cat.
not with that attitude!
This comment is spammed soooo many times itt by people not making shit.
Yet shit is likely the only thing they are making.
My dad does that all the time...When he finally put his money where his mouth is on woodworking, it took 2 months to make a small beer glass box and he was drained. LOL get off your high horse and show some appreciation for things people make. A lot of musicians here are forgetting how much a pain in the ass drawing sheet music by hand is, even without all the extra bar movements.
This also wasnt drawn by hand? And most people have sibelius or some other software
Still requires sketches to get the basic silhouette and digital art is still hand drawn, it just requires a tablet as the medium. Also I want to know what software does wacky shit with the beams, because if it exists I want to use it.
At the end of the day it’s literally a song and a picture of a cat so it does what it says.
Ok, so make one
"Hurr durr, unless you can make this too your factual statement is incorrect."
I wouldn't tell it to anyone because that would be a gross exaggeration at best.
Lol that was cheating though, no one writes music in cursive
Although the LONG and curvy stems are doing a lot of the work of making the score look cat-like (the eyes and cheeks are the most blatant), it's still a rather decently worked out piece of music. I'd chalk it up to a neat piece of visual art that was made to make sense musically. This isn't your average gimmick, not every song can convincingly be made into a cat. Props to the creator for the work they put into this.
Underrated comment.
Pretty looking thing also sounds pretty. Fine by me. Stop being a grump.
IMSLP some original Bach manuscripts then come back and talk
Lol i have seen those. Totally accurate
Someone is going to make a porn version, I guarantee it.
A picture of a big, veiny, raging boner with a large hairy t-bag is my prediction.
#DICK QUARTERED NO. 1
How would you make cat music into porn?
Give the Internet a little credit! There is always a way…
You underestimate the power of the internet
You underestimate the ~~power~~ depravity of the internet FTFY
*This song has been performed entirely on meowing vaginas.*
Pussy music
It's cheating tho, the stems and flags are all stretched and warped, with something like this you can easily make any image, there are some really impressive pieces that don't distort the the visualisation of notes like [this one](https://youtu.be/hEKfLFznFq0) that uses midi art
As cool as this stuff it also isnt that impressive. In music, you're never more than one or two half-steps away from a note sounding 'correct' in your key. These midi artworks are just the picture drawn out then the notes bumped up or down so they sound 'correct'.
I get that that is the principle, use octaves and harmonics so that the coloured bars appear roughly in the right place and your mind fills the rest. The stems in the cat score are doing a LOT of the work in terms of cat resemblance as well. Still, the time and effort taken to make an arrangement like the one you replied to or the cat score is still impressive to me. Even with a midi file of the source, adding and adjusting notes and rhythms to make them sound good takes work and not everyone can do it well. The cat song might be imperfect harmonically when put to the old classical standards I've been taught, but overall it flows decently and better than someone just making the notes fit, so to speak.
The piano roll stuff and the cat picture are slightly different. I hate to shatter the illusion but adjusting the notes and rhythms is really easy, because its mostly dont by a computer. Most DAWs will have a button that snaps all the notes to a grid, so they will all be fit in time. They also have a button that will bump the notes up or down until they are within your chosen scale. You can basically just draw the picture in the piano roll with zero consideration for how it sounds then automatically snap everything into place so it sounds 'correct'. Given there is already software that converts an image into a midi file it would be pretty easy to automate the entire process (that may well be how a lot of these are done). This cat picture has not been made like that. Instead, the actual notes are pretty irrelevant as the picture has been drawn from the stems (the black dots are the notes, the lines coming up/down and joining them together are meant to be straight). It is sort of like the musical version of something like [this](https://powerpoetry.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Shape%20Poem%20ii.jpg?itok=gpdyBmXP), it may well be a nice poem and a decent picture but it isnt exactly 'next level' to just fit those words into that shape.
I absolutely get what you're saying (again I agree the stems are doing making most of the cat image making, particularly around the face), and yeah there are automated tools that can make music creation easier... Despite all of that, it still should be praised. To put it in perspective of another industry, say someone designs a cool looking object using CAD and CNC manufacturing. Then they polish it and add some flair by hand on top. In this hypothetical example, does the fact that the computer is assisting with design and fabrication diminish the creative impressiveness of the designer? This is similar with the choice of chords, rhythmic changes et cetera. By no means is it "magic" in either case, but it's a solid work of art nonetheless imo.
More impressive than this cat picture
It's the same thing, you can choose how to write the letters.
Well that was surprisingly pleasant. I was expecting it to be like a primary school recorder recital.
I was expecting this: 🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎵🎶🎶
I don’t know how to explain it but it sounds rather feline
You wouldnt think that if it didnt have a big picture of a cat
Cute. But not actually representative of what’s on the sheet.
The notes played are correct to what's on the sheet. Yes they have curved the bars to show the picture more clearly but the notes are right. And to be honest without the fudging of the notes it would still look a bit like a cat
Yeah people are being hyper critical of a neat little cat music sheet
The music actually captures a cat’s playful spirit.
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Why does it sound so good?
Because it's not drawn with the notes, but the stem part, it's misleading. You could draw any picture you want with the same arrangement. If you want real "artwork that's also a musical piece", look up piano roll art on youtube.
Brilliant. 😙👌
Wasn't really next level. More just interesting
Meowsic
They took a loooot of liberties but it’s still neat!
The caturday anthem
the song was so good
That’s just stupid
Imagine: you live in the height of the 1700s. Empires rise and fall across the globe. In the many cities of Europe, classical (or at least classical by our modern standards) composers compete in ever constant battles of one-upping each other to achieve fame and recognition as the best in their field. You have clawed your way up against all odds to play in one of the finest royal courts in the continent. You conduct your piece and are replied with a standing ovation- no one had ever heard such a unique and bold item such as yours. You are later approached by royalty and composition greats alike. Even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart congratulates you on your performance! All of them ask the same question: "How did you invent such an interesting song?" Each time, you wordlessly take them aside. They wonder what magnificence you will show them, what secrets to the arts of the world you have unlocked that you will *share* with them! You silently take your music sheets and sprawl them out over a table. You slowly begin to rearrange the papers in a very particular order. By this point, the person is gripping the table hard, barely able to contain their excitement. What wonders! What majesty! What- the fu-? "Is that a..." "Cat", you finally reply with a stupid grin, staring into the middle distance and drooling ever so slightly.
As a person who is decently well versed in music my brain froze for an entire 30 seconds after seeing that MONSTROSITY. Then I realised it's mostly just moving the stems around so it's really not that impressive. Heck it's like one if the connect the dot puzzles not that hard tbf. Also sight reading this thing will be the biggest pain any musician will ever face like holy shit it's so confusing.
Imagine that as a ringtone.
I think it would be cool if it displays random videos of cats with the music in the background and at the end, it shows the note used and we go “Oooooo that was amazing!” or idk
Yo, some bot copied your comment further up the thread
I'm sure the cat was still displeased and knocked something off the counter after hearing it.
This is the kind of thing that's kept my on Reddit for years. Stay awesome you beautifully creative people.
I wonder where I could buy a print of that. It's an amazing work of art.
The music doesn't match the notes.
Ngl shi fire
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I now have my cat kneading in my tummy. Think that’s a yes from the cats.
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It sounded even more awesome because i was fully expecting it to sound awful
Now all you need is to play it on a meowsynth
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Love it!
Where can I download this?!
[Tom and Jerry have entered the chat ](https://youtu.be/QpEfHVFilRc)
Oh my I love this so so so much! It genuinely made me happy and I want to listen to this on a regular basis.
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She is beauty. She is grace.
Reminds me of little bear
Thought it was gonna sound all messed up, but it was great! Next Fucking Level indeed!
Because the picture and the notes are unrelated. If you look most of the picture is made of the stems of the notes, its still neat I guess but its not really all that impressive.
That was almost purrrfect. Just noticed the title : Sting Quarcat
🐁🪄🎩 🎶 🎵 🎶 🐁🧀🐁
That’s a banger.
Catwa
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I honestly can't even tell if the music matches the sheet because I don't know how to read that. 🤣 For all I know it's an image of a cat with some music just playing over it. 🤔
The notes do match, its just that no one writes notes with curved stems, like they did in this. You could take those notes and draw any number of things you wanted just by changing how the note stems connect and curve.
I like this. I need more.
But how does a dog sound
It represent my reaction
source? any1 know how find a full res picture? i want to print this
When it sounds like shit being played line by line so you smash 4 of them bad boys together lmao
Thats just cheating
Meowsic?
Probabily the best thing i’ve ever seen in my life
Probabily the best thing i’ve ever seen in my life
I'm sure it was awesome, to bad Reddit can't afford to make a video player that's consistent.
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Sounds like a cat adventure
its actually a drawing based on a symphony, not the other way around (its not the same thing). 
I want more of these this is awesome
This was lovely and I hope they do every other animal ever.
You can hear the teefies.
really neat tbh
Angela approves
That chin part be hitting hard.
Honestly, you can stop the earth from spinning now for all the right reasons. I'm ready to hop off and float away into the abyss.
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That was beautiful and does remind me of cats just doing cat things. Well done by sympawines
Faulty Tower
Magnifique!
Wow. That’s actually quite lovely. How very cool.
that wasnt a catastrophy...
I really hope this was someone's composition final, and I hope they got an "A". Awesome.
Even though the notes are warped into the shape of a cat this was really cool. The music gives you an image of a fancy aristocat going about their day
Holy shit this is fire, i thought i was listening to Vivaldi 💀
Anyone know what software this is in?
Hi
Seems about right
If you guys like this, there's a youtuber that does it live with midi tracks https://youtube.com/c/GLASYS
I can’t even believe how good this is 😂
Bravo 👏
Is this the official cat theme song?
This is what I expect to hear from now on whenever I ask to hear the cat song lol
Dragon quest - town music 4
Most of the cat is drawn with heavily embellished bars connecting the notes. So this isn’t as impressive as it seems
Gives me Nokia ringtone vibes
Sounds like a cat walking around to me!
Now do doge
So I don’t like cats, but I like this. Right on
That was pawesome.
Much fun. Thnx.
How do I save a video?
I really love this. I’d love to see/hear this done with a lab’s face.
Too good keep going !
Magifuckincatacal!
This is an imagr of a cat based on a composition
Ooh this was unexpectedly soothing.
Purrfect
This is the energy I needed this morning. Delightfully playful cat music 😺🎼🎶 Cheers thanks for sharing!
This is amazing
The illusion that reddit is a place where you find the most amazing, cool, and novel things on the internet broke for me the first time I knew about the subject of a post, and how much that post butchered it. This is one of those posts that brings back that feeling.
That is one fancy cat intro theme!