Octaves

I have been looking at my old violin videos and I saw a performance that leverages the ‘is it going up or down?’ paradox.

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In this Video I play “tsunami – KVBBS and Borgeous”.

The original notation

The first notes of this sequence should be:

What I played

I actually made a change in notation for technical purposes on the violin

It became:

Octaves and the paradox

Playing around with octaves changes the perception of ‘up’ and ‘down’ for octaves other than tritones. In this case: fourths.

This opens up the possibilities to other intervals than the tritone