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I've been listening to 1-dimensional music for most of my life. You know, the flat kind that only moves forward in time. Only recently did I discover 2-dimensional music! It really adds depth to the sound, making chords sound more like ... chordinates?

You can almost chart the harmonies: perpendicular melodies intersecting at perfect right angles. It's hard to explain, you really have to experience it yourself.

Below is a piece of 2d music, taken from one specific album (around 20 years old now).

Question: can you identify the album? 2d-music

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    $\begingroup$ Upvote just for the concept of two-dimensional music. I'd give you 100 upvotes, if I could. $\endgroup$ Commented yesterday
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, that's very generous! $\endgroup$ Commented yesterday

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This represents...

Baudot code.

More specifically,

For each group of notes, we can read the presence/absence of notes on the 5 horizontal staff lines as 5 bits (ignoring any horizontal displacement for now): solution

Continuing in this way, we can read off

SPEEDOFSOUNDWHITESHADOWSFIXYOUTWISTEDLOGIC.

Then,

We can rotate 90 degrees clockwise and repeat the same process!
This yields SQUAREONESWALLOWEDINTHESEAAMESSAGEWHATIF.

These are

Songs from Coldplay's X&Y, fitting for a puzzle about two dimensions. The cover art for X&Y also features the album title in Baudot code!

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Coldplay's X&Y

You say "chart the harmonies" (charts can have x and y axes). You mention "chordinates," which makes sense with x and y values. Of course, the image itself shows a grid that can represent x and y coordinates, as well.

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    $\begingroup$ This feels like a bit of a guess, given the cipher tag and the precise placements of the notes on the lines. $\endgroup$ Commented Nov 14 at 0:05

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