Making the LYDIAN scale sound UGLY? (ft. Shubh Saran, Justice Cow, Music is Win and Aimee Nolte)

[@AdamNeely]

Go check out everybody's channels! Justice Cow released hers as a standalone song here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKepmX-LetuabJo

[@consequenceable]

YEAH

[@wowbaggerTIP]

This song was an absolute jam, I love it

[@bjrnthorness1151]

i’m loving this little series you’re doing man.

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

It deserves to be a standalone song!

[@cricrituttie9203]

I want locrian sound beautifull

[@OmicronGaming]

jokes on you adam, I can make any scale sound bad

[@gumiero7701]

you should try it on minecraft jukeboxes

[@IAmEmotive]

It's my life in a comment. Golden find 😂💙

[@thezipcreator]

try the equipentatonic scale

[@thebkstank2095]

Came here to post this.

[@fatherindia4810]

Wasnt expecting you here but ok

[@treyxaviermusic]

The Lydian mode remains undefeated, none of those were ugly. It just takes dissonance sooooo well.

[@OzielAlvesCavalcante]

Right? I mean, some of them could be called weird, but the question is: Is it because of the scale? They would become beautiful in other scales?

[@0Enigmatic0]

@@OzielAlvesCavalcante Dissonance can be very beautiful regardless. Shostokovich's paino trio number 2 is a great example, I feel both like I'm about to burst and can't stop headbanging every time I listen to it. The guitarist tim henson of Polyphia also uses a ton of diminished chords and tritones in recent recordings (not so much earlier stuff).

[@tomcallmusic4295]

Absolutely. Loved every one.

[@citocelaya5121]

idk, aimee's song literally made me sick to my stomach but ig everyone interprets this stuff differently lmao

[@adamkarlovsky6015]

Some parts of Adam's track genuinely hurt to listen to, so I'd say he got close. But I guess, what does ugly mean to you?

[@delirium3181]

Shubh accidentally made a prog masterpiece. I dig it.

[@GameyRaccoon]

Yeah! It does sound quite proggy

[@venahtmusic]

Nice to finally see some prog metal representation on this channel haha

[@spyrospets5813]

It was pretty awesome, really.

[@KB-yq3ke]

hell yeah. reminds me of deftones!!!

[@Prezzen77]

He's doing his best Between the Buried and Me impression in this bit

[@orngejoos]

How is this video not called using the “uglydian” scale?!

[@Koettnylle]

Nice

[@edmtheorist]

This should be the pinned comment.

[@keatonmaier5894]

These need to be released as an EP titled "Uglydian"!!!!!!

[@lizs004]

+

[@adenmcdooflez]

Beat me to it

[@AimeeNolte]

I need more Tylenol. Mission accomplished, friends. Thanks Adam.

[@bmuller4622]

I got a headache as well haha

[@venasc]

Your track sounds like The Residents =) pretty cool!

[@SageSavage]

Yours gave me good brain chemicals for some reason. It was like the song was the tylenol.

[@LeafGreen906]

the first part of the piece is earily pretty

[@wingracer1614]

I liked it but if I had to listen to that long enough to compose and record it, yeah I'd need a lot of painkillers too. Well done

[@juampi280]

Shubh: So I tried to make this sound bad Me: Joke's on you I'm into that shit

[@BusinessEnglishSuccess]

Yeah - it was really something, wasn't it!

[@somedude4122]

@@BusinessEnglishSuccess Yeah, it's fit right into DOOM

[@zyphedits6298]

mathcore but djenty.

[@valentinasanchez5757]

Me too, I really liked it

[@chain3519]

Sounds like a Dream Theatre album

[@heinerstrohmann7595]

Adam Neelys friends: "It was like chewing on broken glass." Also Adam Neelys friends: "This has Adam Neely written all over it."

[@MusicisWin]

Adam: Hey guys can you play Lydian stuff that sounds ugly? Shubh: ya np, i will devastate u with a metal masterpiece JusticeCow: of course, i will write a disgusting pop anthem Aimee: sure thing, i will rob you of all your happiness forever Me: i can offer u one ugly face and some mildly ugly riffs

[@basslines667b9]

lol I love your humility man, the playing on some of your latest videos is insane though!

[@brunopacheco9797]

dude you literally wrote a plini song, it was awesome

[@D-Man_Jam]

Why'd u block me on Twitter lol

[@morganjohnson9015]

did anyone else get animals as leaders vibes for Tyler??

[@andy2000b]

Only me who thought of Polyphia?

[@salabb]

How to make Lydian sound ugly: - take a Lydian scale - play the Lydian scale starting from its fourth degree - Locrian mode, the stage is all yours

[@mattgilbert7347]

Ha! I'm stealing that one

[@emmafissinger7422]

yeah.. I was going looking in the comments for anyone else who knows they are just playing either Locrian or Phrygian lol... you can tell ( for people who don't know) because you have the root, it sounds minor, and the next tone up is a halfstep lol.

[@salabb]

@@emmafissinger7422 cheaters 😂

[@smithjedediah]

This was literally my first thought

[@unacuentadeyoutube13]

@@emmafissinger7422 yeah, that's a thing most get wrong in this kind of videos. I can't do it better obviously, but it's really interesting when a piece is firmly centered in the mode it should and it sounds as what Adam asked

[@LeonardoHernandez-eg5dv]

Adam: "It's difficult to sound bad in lydian" My songwriting: that's *cute*

[@PaulPriebeMusic]

Adam Neely: _hears a slightly distorted guitar_ Adam: _”Djent 😎”_

[@holidaycomplex]

Is that a italicized emolj lmaooo

[@enzo-oz5mw]

how the hell did you italicize an emoji?!

[@nabhchandra_]

_😯_ woah it works!

[@blissfu_lee8522]

what te fuck italicized emoji lmao

[@anika3206]

@@enzo-oz5mw include it in between the underscores i guess _like this 😳😳_

[@alicec1533]

Aimee Nolte's piece is like something you'd find on a dark corner of the internet that would make the subject of one of those creepy KZbin documentaries.

[@k-leb4671]

It's a deep web track.

[@Dwendele]

Nexpo should use it as the theme music!

[@yuvalne]

Adam in 2020: Lo-Fi microtones Adam in 2021: Psychedelic Lydian

[@akap]

Shubh failed miserably, wrote a perfectly enjoyable TOOL song. Loser, 10/10.

[@ZeroDividesByYOU]

The only context I've seen where a 10/10 is criticism

[@IOxyrinchus]

It’s possible to write a TOOL song that’s enjoyable?

[@pencil364]

@@IOxyrinchus Yes. Source: most of them

[@akap]

@@IOxyrinchus yeah, most of them.

[@IOxyrinchus]

@@pencil364 if by that you mean most of their songs are boring, I agree

[@tomtregenza4633]

Amiee: The girl from Ipanema is crawling on the ceiling

[@TheOutZZ]

The musical imagery in this comment section is spot on.

[@smiledogjgp]

You fucking genius, how dare you be so correct with this judgement

[@nunyobidniz]

*shudders*

[@batty.b]

Aimee's Teletubby trip feels like having the worst dream that could still be considered a dream and not a nightmare. Edit: came back to this a year later, this still true, but worse. That definitely woke up something in another dimension and now that thing is coming for me. It may never reach me but it's definitely trying.

[@ItsAsparageese]

Spot on description. It just exactly rides that eerie ethereal line

[@wanderingrandomer]

Liminal space vibes

[@SageSavage]

I am beginning to think "bad" is my favorite genre.

[@SimoneDePascalis]

This comment.

[@BS-bv5sh]

Justice Cow's track made me think of some of the more difficult bits of some Sophie tracks. I was like joke's on you. This is my shit.

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@BS-bv5sh I'm curious for more intense music like this. It's uncomfortable in a way I'm kind of enjoying slowly probing. What's Sophie like? I know I could search some up right now but I feel like I'd really benefit from a bit of description from another human to help me sorta be able to prepare myself lol

[@BS-bv5sh]

@@ItsAsparageese electronic music with strange noises combined in challenging ways that are also danceable. She, unfortunately, died in an accident last Saturday (Jan 30 2021)

[@ItsAsparageese]

@@BS-bv5sh Aww, that's super sad to hear. The music sounds fantastic, I look forward to listening to it and I'll be cheersing her in the afterlife. Thanks so much for the info

[@PedroKrick]

Everyone else: ugly lydian Aimee: binaural beats to make your head ache and scare your subconscious.

[@Dwendele]

Nailed it. Like literally a nail being pounded into my temple.

[@pokoyokopo]

I kind of felt.. really comfortable with hers?

[@gl4ssmooshr00m]

i dont wanna be like "haha teletubbies scary lol" but that genuinely made me scared it is nighttime and i am about to go to sleep man this is not good

[@oreo_6206]

me too it was so unsettling oh my god the rest of them were bangers actually

[@violetly_]

@@gl4ssmooshr00m omfg seriously, the video of teletubbies on top of it just…. creeped me out really hard, I literally had to look away because it was making me so uncomfortable

[@stanislawrybinski]

from now on, instead of asking "does it djent?" we should ask "does it Shubh Saran?"

[@samuelmatt480]

lol

[@fudgesauce]

He is a djentleman

[@JusticeCow]

"I felt like destroying something beautiful" -Fight Club and Aimee, Adam, Shubh, Music is Win, and I

[@elliottroses]

I especially loved yours

[@JusticeCow]

@@elliottroses Aww thank you!!

[@Domitianvs]

That was horrible in the best way possible!

[@o.omalley]

I loved 4:15 😂 But seriously yours was awesome

[@HighFiveTheHorizon]

Loved the images you painted while analysing the music!

[@mgsquared5204]

I’ve got mild Tourette’s so I rarely have a “tic attack” but something in Aimee Nolte’s song really caused me to go off. I guess that means she did a good job!!!

[@TheBanana93]

Binaural beats are weird man!

[@janegeland7596]

Holy shit, Justice Cow's one was intense! Literally brought on more chills and uncomfortable feelings than any song has in a long time. Absolutely fantastic

[@LovePantsu]

Exactly, this is my first time to almost faint just because of a song...

[@TedSchoenling]

Totally stood completely opposite of what I thought when I first heard/saw her...

[@kraupnrca99]

Half cried because of it

[@tailbonetailbone9380]

To me, the most unsettling aspect of it's the formants. It sounds so much like a strained, desperate scream!

[@capeleto]

I am OBSESSED with literally all of these. this might be my fave collab ever. can't wait for happy phrygian!

[@depressedfrogpenis]

Doesn't tool play in phrygian?

[@Bubdiddly]

@@depressedfrogpenis not happily😂

[@plemgrubern]

Justice Cow's descriptions are the best "it's like sirens... in the future"

[@leechild4655]

right? i love that girl. ben is a lucky guy.

[@AdamODell]

I really appreciate how everyone used Lydian as a jumping off point for a bunch of conscious decisions about non-harmonic decisions. Treating pitch as an equal partner to rhythm, timbre, form, etc. made this so much better than “hey let’s just play up the minor seconds.”

[@lunaponta594]

Music is Win: "oh god was that beautifully dissonant? i hope not" Aimee: "and the dissonance was beautiful"

[@DanielLightspeedMcNair]

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[@sirgallabad]

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[@TedSchoenling]

Love how Shubh Saran used time to help pound the feeling home.... Too many people forget time is part of music and how different time signatures can make you feel grounded or unsettled or just out there

[@DavePollack]

When listening to this, my dog started speaking to me and his head started spinning like a globe. Adam I’m scared pls help pls

[@marshallstephens7356]

Haha!

[@arielkatz50]

Adam: hey guys make ugly songs Everyone: *make sungazer style songs*

[@yawpaw9796]

Whoa! That that was deep

[@ДмитрийЕвстратов-э3м]

Ahahah this is so true! At this point thanks to Adam I think I can listen to the weirdest kind of music, find it beautiful and bang to it! Justice Cow's piece literally gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. Except Aimee's piece. She won the competition.

[@UltraMusicAddictive]

Music is Win sounds like Animals as Leaders though

[@joshwilliams8863]

Aimee Nolte: Unironically giving people panic attacks with Lydian. Boss move.

[@elkcibdej]

This is such a cool way to demonstrate that the “rules” are made to be broken. It is really valuable to know things like the lydian mode really well SO THAT you can make unique sounds like these.

[@Foodgeek]

Best video on KZbin in a long time 😁 Justice Cow's song made me giggle with giddy 😂

[@rains0return]

Same

[@JosiahMcCarthy]

Yo! I love both channels! It's always fun to connect disparate things.

[@Artcore103]

Yes it was mostly genius. incredible.

[@braydenjameson710]

Same

[@pedrov1385]

"here's djent, here's 100 gecs, here's a piece of music that gave me actual physical pain..."

[@rainbowrotcod]

Wonderful!

[@RainbowDemon]

If Lydian is a dream, Justice Cow’s was a nightmare

[@pathologicaldoubt]

I love how Justice Cow paints each piece with her weird but accurate descriptors

[@shanekayat3217]

She's like a female Ben Levin

[@BerndThomasSchuller]

The Justice Cow one is freaking brilliant. Correction: all of them are freaking brilliant.

[@salottin]

YES!!!

[@BusinessZeus]

I think jc was the worst one and I skip it every time

[@soondubu.]

@@BusinessZeus haha wasn't that the point?

[@jiricevela3822]

The Aimee Nolte's audio-visual contribution has just shown how music can change the perception of the visual part of the particular work. Great, had so much fun watching this video.

[@LoraCoggins]

Adam: Hey, you wanna make ugly Lydia music? Aimee: Hold my Teletubbies.

[@johnnicholas7420]

Even the addition of "The Girl From Ipanema" was kind of creepy.

[@naturally_roisin]

Shubh's wasn't ugly, it was like space-themed prog rock. Sounded like something by Radiohead or Muse. Loved it.

[@davidschwartz5614]

Don't know how much I hear Radiohead on it but yeah I think it's very cool

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

You know that scene from The Social Network where the Winklevoss twins are competing in that kayak race and it's them rowing dramatically in slow motion to Trent Reznor's industrial version of "In The Hall of The Mountain King?" Shub's piece would totally work for that scene. Particularly the last bit when it all kicks into gear so you've got that drunken 4/4 beat with a stutter.

[@umblapag]

Absolutely fantastic! Shubh Saran: a dirty punch in your jaw. Justice Cow: an infernal creep under your skin. Aimee Nolte: a depressive mania that takes over you. Music is Win: an comfortable discomfort. Adam Neely: a freakin monster.

[@flutechannel]

Konami Code?

[@colinbarberic5553]

Konami Mode.

[@flutechannel]

@@colinbarberic5553 he went full contra

[@thesamarawaters]

“You got the Steve Vai and you got the Primus, you got the Steve Vaimus” My new favorite Adam Neely Quote

[@elmoisred616]

That first song by Shubh is mathcore as fuck. Please release on bandcamp

[@lizs004]

You deserve more likes

[@disgustof-riley]

FACTS

[@mikehawk9531]

YES Reminds me a lot of slint

[@caleb_sousa]

Up

[@ardnys35]

that telletuby one will hunt me in my dreams this night night update: i am being hunted rn

[@JonahNelson7]

Yeah, the ones the two girls made were very unsettling lol

[@Dowlphin]

Yeah, the footage to the music was a great pick.

[@rodrigofriend5759]

The Justice Cow one made me very uncomfortable, like if I was in a nightmare. Quite amazing to be honest

[@thinginground5179]

It felt so surreal

[@baldbeardedbassist]

Aimee had the most 'wtf' factor, holy shit. That was wild. Literally never heard anything like those harmonies before in my life.

[@gregoryhunter7413]

Yeah it was nuts! Another song I know that does this kind of close interval harmony is the piece Natasha & Bolkonsky's from the musical Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGjbmJmAjquUidU

[@whatdoyousuppose]

YES i love super close/dissonant harmonies in vocal arrangements! it gave me both Dave Malloy and Eric Whitacre vibes, I found myself oddly humming along in a whole other harmony and felt like weirdly at home within the chaos lol

[@gregoryhunter7413]

@@whatdoyousuppose Same. It was dissonant but also haunting and beautiful. Chills down my spine!

[@mminlovewithflo]

idk I guess I listened too much bulgarian folk singing to find seconds disturbing

[@baldbeardedbassist]

@@mminlovewithflo I guess I need to listen to more Bulgarian folk lol. Could you recommend any specific key words I might use to narrow my search?

[@stephenknapp91]

"It's like someone trying to drunkenly headbang" Is there any other way to headbang?

[@violetsteele350]

You know that feeling when you have been up for 27 hours because you have to finish that paper and the only thing keeping you up is After The Burial and the coffee that has refused to work anymore and you can feel the pencil splitting in your hand? Good time to headbang.

[@5ycey7.n.84]

Headbanging on molly is also pretty great.

[@dbeast03]

Stoned instead of drunk seems reasonable . . .

[@skylee5029]

That justice cow one was legitimately terrifying. Like wow, that was a BAD trip

[@since1876]

If I ever write a horror movie, I'm hiring the shit out of Aimee.

[@JusticeCow]

Good move

[@joseph1131]

Justice Cow's interpretation of vibes is so accurate. It's also incredibly close to the makers inspiration most of the time. Really interesting. The chewing on glass and cave metaphor were dead on!

[@JusticeCow]

ahh thanks!

[@PsytranceGOUGAS]

Shubh's one was just so damn good. Rhythmically even beyond the Lydian was insane.

[@malikdiao8212]

Aimee Nolte out here musically braking the Geneva Convention...

[@dacoconutnut9503]

Why did she put The Girl from Ipanema in the middle lol

[@lonelyplanet120]

Oh no

[@pollyperry4444]

Damn! Shubh should write more metal music, that was literally such an incredible composition. I could have gotten lost in that sound space forever!

[@vaughnhale7903]

“Making Locrian sound heavenly”

[@gracebrb]

they made a video like that already

[@willemvandenbroeck6829]

Really easy

[@TheAllAroundMan]

Making ionian sound fancy

[@Exspazament]

Ive been working on a song that moves between locrian, lydian, and mixolydian (locrian being the main groove) I'm beginning to realize that lydian and locrian are meant for each other. They follow each other in this weird unsettling melodic tension but each moves you along to a more stable sound. The fun part is keeping the unstable as your primary groove with a teasing resolve. There, that's the secret to lydian and locrian. They're magic..

[@JustFiddler]

🤠

[@georgf9279]

10:12 You could put those exact words, including rhythm of speach, pronunciation and all that, into Ben Levins mouth and I wouldn't notice. Very similar way of expression.

[@duon44]

i think they're partners so that checks out!

[@Ryan_Wiseman]

Adam: I once wrote a song called "Drunk" Shubh: Hold about 20 shots of vodka for this feel Justice Cow: I have summoned the void in assistance of my work Adam. Aimee: I started a vocal harmony chant cult around this void Music is Win: I have found the nasty aesthetic and it's spider Adam: Ugly is fun, especially with bass face

[@lemac3200]

I just can't tell how much I love this video. It's perfect: the protagonists, the music, the cut... everything! It carries me through this effin' pandemic with all its challenges! Bless you all, bless you Adam Neely!

[@Numlits]

Adam’s song sounds like a gameboy game text box that just says “Something is wrong.”

[@MarkBonneaux]

Very Earthbound vibes

[@ZIMAFICATION]

It reminded me of the Metroid Fusion encounter with Nightmare

[@mynameisrosiex4555]

Tyler really though he could just play a Primus song without anyone noticing

[@rufex2001]

Aimee’s totally accomplished the goal of the task! That was upsetting.

[@oppentrapp]

"Quivering flanks, market tanks. Don't call it necessary" These are the lyrics of the year

[@alpine6692]

"100gecs does lydian" my exact thoughts

[@SGDrummer7]

Having a weird Baader-Meinhof situation because I only heard about 100 gecs earlier this morning and now they’re coming up in this video.

[@Symphonicrockfran]

The comment I was looking for. Justice Cow's song is an amazing hyperpop piece

[@molybdenumrose]

I was gonna comment that Cow's vocals reminded me of Laura Les and Neely beat me to the punch

[@sulociou7846]

After listening to Aimee's submission, I am now aging much faster than I usually do. Dear god, I am losing brain cells Lord Help Me

[@itamarsenderov1431]

They all failed, every piece sounded great.

[@iantaakalla8180]

They all sounded great, however, their takes all sounded alternative or electronic. This is a good thing because they all are likely to be ugly. While that could be taken as “Lydian is so good that even dissonances become good”, it also shows their skills in composing as well.

[@rains0return]

@@iantaakalla8180 that's what I thought too... To make it ugly you first have to understand it very well

[@dame-e-in1258]

"Lydian, You Ugly" was so good and headache inducing omg

[@disgustof-riley]

Uglydian though XD

[@davidemura4444]

Either I am finding out my taste is into bad stuff or these folks can't make bad music if they tried

[@jake_in_the_control_room3205]

I'm enthralled by everyone's approach to this. Amazing talent here.

[@figrollin]

Holy shit, whatever the fuck Aimee Nolte did evoked such a visceral response in me. Like, it literally made my eyebrows rise, my skin prickle and my head hurt. Awesome!

[@kkrampus]

i think the only one who succeeded was Aimee. Everyone else might have been harsh but they weren't ugly

[@juliaaanium6430]

90's creepypasta: yeah the music in Lavender Town in pokemon is so creepy, it killed kids Aimee Nolte: * hold my beer *

[@kaitlyn__L]

I’ve always found those beat frequencies hauntingly beautiful rather than scary or headache inducing. I was one of the people when the “original Lavender Town music was banned” stuff was going around, back in like 2008, to listen to it and say I liked it better

[@DepMuk]

Me: *knows close to nothing about music theory* Hm yes, the music is made up of music.

[@cameronschwalbach9716]

Fantastic! I thoroughly enjoyed all of these, Adam's and Tyler's in particular. Really digging the Primus vibes in those bass lines.

[@emalaw1329]

"Nega Bill Wurtz isn't real, he can't hurt you" Nega Bill Wurtz: 15:33

[@shaynehmad]

lol

[@mesarosmm]

Shubh Saran: "Ima Mick Gordon the crap outa this."

[@slurpeexyza17]

It could work in an off kilter psychedelic doom level

[@irusu.]

you know what's really entertaining about these videos with other people? That this isnt like genre-locked, everyone enjoy and can play anything if it's just music. Of course preference exist, but it's really nice to see them appreciate all their different approaches

[@luca9408]

Adam just out here‘ combinin words „Guitarmony“ „Steve vimus“

[@disgustof-riley]

Uglydian

[@honsebingus6426]

Ok First Pretty locrian Then ugly Lydian What’s next Triumphant aeolian Evil Ionian What is in your mysterious brain Adam

[@pacmanboss256]

majestic fanfare in d flat minor

[@jonatandjurachkovitch460]

Triumphant aeolian sounds not that hard though

[@randysterbentz5599]

“Write a Blues song without dominant 7 chords”

[@quantum_nekomancer]

@@pacmanboss256 You would probably find that one in some Zelda soundtrack.

[@randomguy-tg7ok]

Pretty Locrian: Abuse the 4th Happy Phrygian: Hey we still have a regular 5th :V (And three major chords) Triumphant Aeolian: EDM with brass Dorian: Yes Mixolydian: I don't even know what the antithesis of Mixolydian even is? Mixolydian that resolves or something? Evil Ionian: There's a half-tone between the 1st and 7th and that can sound really damn evil if you know what you're doing Ugly Lydian: Abuse the 4th

[@gustavbw]

"So, what's your taste in music?" "You wouldn't get it"

[@nicocastilho376]

The dissonance in “Lydian you ugly” really reminded me of “Construção” by Chico Buarque. Great video!

[@yawpaw9796]

Great taste on music, my friend

[@vvirtualvviolence283]

It reminded me a LOT of Gazelle Twin's discography. So good.

[@leolovsen1448]

Shubh's is giving zombie vibes, REALLY dig it!! Also the "4/4" but it feels as if one beat is in slow motion, super cool!!

[@alexbaskov]

damn, that one from Aimee Nolte was actually hurting or rather "not releasing" one, like some weird soundtrack. Shubh's and Justice Cow's one i actually really liked, spicy but enjoyable! Tyler's one was also very very cool to my liking, i tried to find that "ugly", but couldn't :D

[@GuacJohnson]

I must say as someone that has gotten sneak peaks of Justice's album and work, she is really under rated and an amazingly creative song writer

[@davidhasselhoff380]

When Shubh was describing what he did, and how he did it I was like:"Shit, dude really went the extra mile on that one".

[@NoahMusser]

The "Big Takeaway" at the end continues to impress. That's why I subscribe, seriously. Analysis, Synthesis and Extrapolation...

[@angelsartandgaming]

Shubh's definitely gave me those tingles on my neck. Gives me a heavy progressive rock vibe and I love progressive rock. It's my favorite one!

[@BigBadWolframio]

I... loved all of them? None of them sounded “ugly” to me. Menacing, maybe. Creepy, perhaps. Scary even. But ugly? Nah. I guess the concept of ugliness is too subjective. Not that I’m complaining, tho!

[@sleeplessdistrict3897]

i dont think they mean bad ugly. They meant ugly as in odd and strange, its easy to make just bad music in any scale lol

[@vlyrch]

Yeah, ugly music isn't inherently bad. Ugliness is subjective like you say, but not only that, considered by itself, all ugliness is is ugliness. Just because ugliness is considered bad in many contexts, that doesn't mean everything that's ugly is bad. There are entire genres of music that sound ugly, like goregrind and harsh noise, but neither genre is inherently bad music; whether something sounds bad is even more subjective than whether something sounds ugly, but even if you personally don't like any goregrind or harsh noise, you may still be able to appreciate their existence as ugly genres. It's not just music, either. The same goes for art, films, books, etc. as well. Taking it even further, it's like how just because a person is ugly, that doesn't necessarily mean they're a bad person. Ugly people can be nice, talented, happy, etc. and ugly music, art, films, books, etc. can be nice, take talent to make, and it can be enjoyable.

[@slurpeexyza17]

Ugly doesnt mean bad. Think about it. A face could be ugly but the person who wears it could be the kindest most loving person.

[@caramelldansen2204]

I loved the first one

[@annamoan2107]

This is some of the most creative stuff I've heard in a while. Thank you a million times, all of you.

[@ejphilla2300]

Shubh’s “whaaat?” At 15:54 is so perfectly harmonized with the chord holy shit

[@nilsqvis1337]

You're doing a really good job of showing that aesthetics is not only about beauty, Adam

[@nochthitus9397]

I love this I've watched it half a dozen times already, I know it comes with practice and experience but shubh's grasp of time signatures and unusual rhythms is just amazing, truly something to aspire to, awesome piece. Jessica's was intriguing, great contrast between the airy bits and the more aggressive sounding intense bits. Amy's piece was the very essence "unnerving" brought to life, very dark and tense, Tyler's piece *was* objectively beautiful, the B-section had a great kind of airy open vibe which contrasted nicely with that tense suspenseful finger picked a-section, definitely had the Vaimus vibe. And yours, Adam, just damn, again, it had that awesome contrast between the ugly 2nd intervals and that backing string/synth line, and the way it built up then kind of "deconstructed" itself to the bare bass at the end was a great ending. I don't think any of these were actually ugly, in essence they still had the lydian intrigue, which is exactly what I think the raised 4th brings to the lydian scale, it's not *just* a major scale, the absence of a perfect 4th brings a level of character that makes certain ideas not difficult to express but it makes you approach them differently. Awesome. Time to watch it again.

[@e.s.r5809]

I actually like these more than most songs in lydian. Lydian often sounds too "nice" to me, its prettiness is what makes it sort of dull in the wrong hands. I especially like Shubh and Aimee's contributions. Aimee's is fascinatingly weird, I keep coming back to it. It inspires me to make weirder music. Shubh's is just a genuine jam and I'd gladly listen to a full version on purpose.

[@OW79]

Rewatched this vid a couple of times: I instantly crushed on Tyler's (musiciswin) and Justice Cow's songs. Then after 2-3 more listens I really loved Amy's and Adam's songs for completely different reasons. I feel that Shubh's song was the most "ugly": some of the riffs were really great but then got torn apart by the odd timing. Really got you out of the groove. Honestly I'm not saying it was bad (you know you are great), but in terms of "ugly" I found the feeling that you could never get "in to" the riffs/grooves... "blue-ballish", frustrating and ugly ! I loved Justice Cow's song 100% for the vocals. Everything about them was great! I loved Amy's song for the arrangement and the mood. Absolutely sublime! I loved Adam's song for amazing bass sounds, the odd timings, the very well rounded composition. It was very physical with harsh bass sounds and the clashing notes! And lastly I would like to applaud Tyler for his amazing riffs, a really odd but satisfying solo and that tone tho!

[@Auxend]

Loved this, Adam. Thanks for all you do - big shouts to the contributors of this vid too!

[@pedroscoponi4905]

Music might be the only artform I can think of were you can set out to make something deliberately unpleasant and still somehow end up with something charming and unironically enjoyable. Like the audio equivalent of creepy-cute.

[@michaelmckinnie]

Justice cows gave me chills! Great job everybody!

[@johnd.michaels]

After lurking for a couple years, Justice Cow and Aimee Nolte finally made me commit to a subscribe. Amazing. Thanks for bringing my attention to these artists.

[@treyxaviermusic]

why are you trying to ruin my favorite thing

[@everyoneelsemovedonfan]

Seriously though. Even if these pieces are amazing and revolutionary, keep the beautiful beautiful

[@BlightVonDrake]

God, this is amazing, every track is beautiful. I know the goal was "ugly," but maybe it's suggestive, like "ugly" is in the eye of the beholder. Or... In the ear of the behearer?

[@Slowbuilderchallenge]

all of these are dope as hell. great stuff.

[@Bogonavt]

Adam Neely: repetition legitimizes Also Adam Neely: makes ugly music (with repetitions)