Questions tagged [negative-harmony]

For questions about Ernst Levy's notion of negative (or mirror) harmony, recently resurrected by Jacob Collier.

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Are there any typical, practical applications of negative harmony?

I think I understand the basic concept of negative harmony, rotating around an axis. I get basic functional chord negatives like these... inversion table Eb E D F C G B …
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Negative Harmony

Is there a quick rule-of-thumb for finding negative harmonies? Usually they are explained by drawing a circle of pitches and pairing them by lining up the 'positive' and 'negative' pitches. But this needs a diagram. How does one quickly decide the…
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