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Motion Over Time
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- title
- Motion Over Time
- description
- Why are so many “music words” based around travel? Around space? Highs and lows, in and “out.” We talk about being in a key, moving away from home, climbing into a chorus, falling into resolution. Why are we navigating music? For me, musical gravity is one of the best ways to find your way through it!
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- complete
- date
- 2026-02-24
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- solo
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- listenUrl
- https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lovemusicmore/episodes/Motion-Over-Time-e3ff9ja
- appleUrl
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/motion-over-time/id1567355195?i=1000751160462&uo=4
- spotifyUrl
- https://open.spotify.com/episode/247pRrDsI5cga6OayMh8U9
- topicsDiscussed
- Mixing
- Musical Gravity
- Emotional Communication
- Rhythm and Dynamics
- High vs. Low Frequencies
- Composition Techniques
- Internalized Craft
- Musical Orbits
- Tension and Release
- Journey of Sound
- hostNote
- Companion to my vocabulary episode: **why do we talk about music like travel?** Highs and lows, being *in* a key, climbing into a chorus, falling into resolution, the words we use for sound are spatial, and I think that reveals how we actually process it. I frame **musical gravity** and **orbits**: home as root or melody, borrowed chords as moons tugging the path, jazz's stacked 251s as a series of temporary homes. From Winter Olympics-level muscle memory to mixing as filling a 3D object, forward/back, top/bottom, not just reverb: this is about internalized craft: knowing what pull, lift, and resolution you're aiming for before you deploy it.
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- Introducing the core concept
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- 90
- note
- How the language around music reveals our thought processes and helps communicate emotions.
- label
- Internalized craft in music
- startSec
- 139
- note
- The significance of muscle memory in musicianship and composition.
- label
- Exploring high vs. low frequencies
- startSec
- 230
- note
- How frequency affects our understanding of sound and music.
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- Concept of musical orbits
- startSec
- 278
- note
- Orbits as a metaphor for how musical elements relate to each other.
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- Representation of gravity in music
- startSec
- 318
- note
- How certain musical structures create feelings of tension and resolution.
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- Complexity and simplicity in jazz
- startSec
- 361
- note
- The balance between simple melodies and complex compositions in jazz.
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- The journey with music
- startSec
- 454
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- Music as a journey rather than just a collection of notes.
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- Different colors of resolution
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- 675
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- How tension and dissonance enhance the emotional impact of music.
- excerptQuotes
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- ...a lot of talent is internalized craft where you know what is appropriate in the given time...
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- 86
- reviewed
- true
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- ...the fundamental aspects of music is it happens over time? It's not just one note, one chord, it is the exploration...
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- 233
- reviewed
- true
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- ...you can kind of think of the home as the familiar, or the home as the root note...
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- 282
- reviewed
- true
- text
- ...the thing that like pushes you back, like think about the moon revolving around the earth...
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- 315
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- true
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- ...the satisfaction of that journey is often related to the direction that it takes you...
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- 447
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- true
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- ...we have all these different kind of colors of resolution from the very standard to very non-standard...
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- 673
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- true
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- ...the next moment when you are rolling off into the universe like a little comet, but then you find your way back home...
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- 724
- reviewed
- true
- faq
- question
- What is the concept of musical gravity in Motion Over Time?
- answer
- Musical gravity refers to the way certain musical elements pull listeners through the composition, creating feelings of tension and resolution.
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- How do I describe the journey of music?
- answer
- I emphasize that music is a journey rather than just individual notes or chords, illustrating how direction and expectation guide the listener.
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- What role do high and low frequencies play in music?
- answer
- High and low frequencies shape our understanding and perception of sound, influencing emotional responses and the overall experience of music.
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