Matthew Passion on J.S.Bach : like 8-bit style : on 3D Pianoroll

Only "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen".
I'm sorry in strange English.
Chorus = Vocaloid 2-CV03 (Singing synthesizer VSTi)
about vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Meguri...
Orchstra = Magical 8bit Plug (8-bit sound VSTi)
about / ymck.official
3D Pianoroll = MIDITrail
about en.sourceforge.jp/projects/mid...

[@EmanuelGaldr]

Some parts hit me harder emotionally than the "real" performances of this piece. Maybe because of the alien-ness and detachment caused by the pure tones and the machine-like procession of sounds, I don't know. The simulation is almost like the spectre of a spectre, an after-image. And I believe that the humanity that the music lost in translation remains hovering somewhere, in its purest, distilled form, and that's something deeply sad and moving.

[@renan1033zinho]

I absolutely get it! have you heard this? : kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKGnimWueLaBqZo. It is absolutely powerful emotionally !

[@moreira7daniel]

What a beautiful thing you have said... the lost humanity hovering... a spectre of a spectre...

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

I love this comment so much.

[@moreira7daniel]

@@rabidrabbitshuggers So do I.

[@howtouploadinfullquality3638]

What exactly do you mean by this?

[@uikel]

The ultimate composer's test. If it sounds good in 8 bit, you probably did a good job ;)

[@ngorbovaleryjoan7273]

that's exactly how i do lol

[@mr.blocky3274]

This makes me cry... this song is that powerful.

[@user-lf4ih9sh6r]

It really is.

[@TurboBinch]

Try listening to real people performing it...

[@ezejimenez7546]

I think it's music of the gods ( don't matter if they don't exist, it's celestial music)

[@borisvandruff7532]

The St. Matthew Passion might be the best music ever written. It really is that good.

[@jeremiahglover7562]

Every time.

[@NoName-uf6rf]

I am not lying when I say that I have cried listening to this! By far my favorite rendition!

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

I pity every human who can not realize this divine beauty and is not emotionally touched by this masterpiece

[@almond9225]

What I love about his video is that it almost shows the complexity of the computations Bach's brain was able to do to create such beautifully intricate music. It's almost like he wasn't human. It's something divine

[@ATasteOfLife]

I would love to hear the full matthaus passion in this style. It sounds really good to be honest.

[@SDGRTX1455]

Fair Enough Me too, gozzeerrhhrrr

[@LeVezz]

Would take months and months to put it like that , so many things going on in the Bwv 244 !

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

@@helloman1051He was glued to his desk. His patrons worked him virtually to death.

[@sauldinglesteinlll9543]

When a composition can make you tear up and think of human dignity and the heroic individual even in a harsh, not particularly expressive instrumentation such as 8 bit, that's how you know you're listening to a work of stunning genius.

[@SlateFx]

He literally turns the situation of Christ carrying the cross across a field, dying for humanities sins, the weight and gravity and scale and emotion of that situation, turns it perfectly into a simple melody and counterpoint. It's like "ok Bach, you can turn happiness into a melody, you can sum up sadness in that nice chord progression, you've got skills in that regard, immediate emotions, but surely you can't turn a situation as monumental and important as Christ dying for our sins into a 5-6 minute compositi- oh wait, "Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen"? Man how do you do it..." Saying this is dark is understatement, it is epic, grand, cerebral and sublime beyond comprehension.

[@juanramonsilva1067]

That’s because the instruments Bach used for composition were even sounded, much like a typical 8bit sample. He focused completely on counterpoint and polyphony, thus his music doesn’t require rubato, staccatos, pizzicatos, decrescendos, etc. and all that fancy articulation. As long as the sounds are played in tune in a more or less even matter then it will sound precious. It doesn’t matter which instrument or electric machine does it. In fact, this true not only for this piece but for basically everything Bach ever composed.

[@platesrcool5121]

this is everything to me

[@shadowjuan2]

Bach wrote a lot of his music using the organ as working instrument. Bach’s primary concern was to find the most beautiful combination of sounds using counterpoint technique. For one to appreciate the full beauty of individual lines sounding good together one needs for the lines to be played well in equalness and non of them standing out. For that reason this music doesn’t need dynamics which most often come from expressive instruments, such as violin and the piano. A computer does a great job giving each line equality, the way an organ or harpsichord would. That’s the reason this music works so well when played by a computer. Each line is beautiful in itself, non needs to stand out, what matters most is the sum of its parts sounding harmonious together. That’s also part the reason why orquestras tends to ruin the magic of this music so often, because if one part isn’t being played cleanly it will ruin the overall beauty of the harmonies.

[@edward_jacobs]

Every time I hear this piece, regardless of presentation, I am driven to tears. Miserere Nobis!

[@zeldamaster7778]

I find myself getting lost in this quite often, clicking the replay button for hours

[@NaitsabesWinklersson]

Great arrangement. It's always mindboggling how good Bach sounds played by a machine. There is very few music for which it works, it's the notes themselves that contain the music, not different sorts of instrumental gestures. This alone places Bach above most other composers.

[@warreneckels4945]

During the Baroque, a composer could not be entirely sure what instruments would be used to play his works. For that matter, Bach was not above recycling his own works for different instrumentations. This is thoroughly understandable: imagine having to rehearse a choir of boys and youth to give a 30-minute performance every single week and writing five 52-week cycles of music.

[@Nupetiet]

he's pretty good i guess

[@omnitone]

but that's how music is s u p p o s e d to be made ;-;

[@juanramonsilva1067]

That is what I have thought for years. What is the purest essence of music but the notes themselves? Bach played and composed on instruments that where even in tone and intensity, he could focus entirely on the art of polyphony, the most beautiful math the human ear can hear.

[@dantebond8124]

I do not know why, but after hearing this, I fell to my knees and cried.

[@aaronmann9442]

Probably because you are a healthy human being

[@TimothyReeves]

That is a valid response.

[@acs1602]

Because the Holy Spirit was moving your heart to seek Jesuschrist

[@lindacowles756]

@@acs1602 Amen!!!

[@gerarddesmidt1546]

Weird. Stunning. Absolutely marvelous. Why did I have to look for this? This should be well known allover the planet, to make young people meet ancient music. I am so glad Bach had his God to believe in, so he left us this great music. Thank you so much for your great art-work!

[@mariacasemyr]

Wow ❤️ There is something special with 8-Bit and js. Bach

[@arteemvideo7353]

The bass is like a heart. Incredible!!!

[@martoto77]

Like a lot of 8-bit covers, I was kinda like "Ouch. Don't see myself listening to this more than once" during the first few bars..... then "voices" came in.... :D

[@SmackGoggleFace]

The singing voice gives me a Stanley Kubrik vibe.

[@beefheart666]

***** This

[@phantomwizard]

+SmackGoggleFace maybe giving you a W. Carlos vibe

[@jct9099]

Hopefully like what would it be like if Wendy Carlos collaborate with Vocaloid.

[@TimothyReeves]

At first I thought that the sound wasn’t as good as the visuals but when the voices came in my mind was changed. It’s hard to mess up Bach but something about this rendition I really like. Thanks.

[@AndresPozosComposer]

I come back to this almost every day, it's just beautiful, the incredible texture and power of the 8bit sounds gives dimentions to this piece never listened before, good job.

[@Ivan_1791]

God, this is incredible.

[@cliffordcrimson7124]

I love how the "voice parts" match each other so perfectly in tone and timbre. The best mixed choirs can't do this, and TTBB/SSAA lack the range.

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

It is maybe the closest and most precise version that was inside his head. I wish he had the opportunity to hear and SEE this xD

[@steveistheman84]

4:20 is so haunting. "all sin has thou born for us"

[@Ardjano234]

Play this at 1.5 or higher speed and be amazed that the bass kinda swings

[@PMS1950]

Absolutely love it. One can clearly sense all the different elements coming together and blending. The counterpoint is unravelled in a way, which demonstrates the sheer genius of Bach. It may lack the traditional instrumental textures, but in its own way prepares us for the drama about to unfold.

[@johnshaw6664]

Worth sticking with this until the end. Very interesting. More importantly, very beautiful. Hats off.

[@dearodear]

Thank you so much for that incredible work you did. You gave us a true experience. I hav eno words. And Bach... He touched the divine, wether we belive or not. It's vertigo.

[@Strimlarn87]

The text to this, plus the good old 8-bit makes me feel something

[@Marcheloul]

Beautiful! Also beautiful message at the end. I would love to hear John's Passion opening chorus in this style too!

[@hannephil]

Only one I could find: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYuWhIeIm72rpMk

[@moreira7daniel]

Well, I'm an atheist and the music of Bach hits me like nothing else on this Earth! Congratulations on your work! It creates such an awareness of the pure genious of Bach in the creation of this monumental piece! The design of the 3D framework is fantastic. That a machine alone can convey the zeitgeist of this piece and the spirit of Bach is proof of their greatness. In short, I felt amazement and awe. Thank you!

[@simex909]

Atheist: "spirit"

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

It should be impossible for ONE single human mind to compose something insanely complex like this 300 years ago. Though, it exists.

[@loliswat8223]

One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.

[@keatonbyrd3498]

Oh my... This is equal parts fabulous and terrifying. Impressive work with the 8-bit rendering.

[@anteb.k.8396]

this is computer sounds, no emotion, yet I feel it - weird! fucking awesome was Bach

[@Ivan_1791]

The power of Bach.

[@lxH4WK3Rxl]

musical instruments have no emotions too

[@aus822]

@@lxH4WK3Rxl incorrect as the people playing them do

[@raticida123456]

Bach always sounds good

[@NobleHorse-gq4li]

I love this so much and listen to it often. It's brilliant.

[@marcogross4063]

This sounds unique, I felt like i was in space and guided by angels. Great job!

[@HearLesterSing]

This is extremely good! I loved Bach's Saint Matthew's Passion! Listening in 8-bit and vocaloid, I felt I'm playing Castlevania where I'm on a chapel stage of Dracula's castle. Much kudos!

[@alexluck4420]

I want to like this 1000 times for the number of ways in which I like it. Just noticed you have visualised the double choirs/ orchestras and ripieno in mirror-image- awesome!

[@NobleHorse-gq4li]

I am still loving this work you have done and sharing it. Brilliant.

[@tyrone9334]

Keep coming back to this. Absolutely beauty.

[@Mrpaladino16]

Bach + 8 bit sounds like the old castlevania games

[@user-lf4ih9sh6r]

If you like that check out my page, I'm rendering the two-part inventions in 8-Bit. :)

[@MichaelNY78]

Somehow it's reminds me another game - "Devil May Cry".

[@makytondr8607]

The story to it is just GREAT!!!! LOL I knew Bach was a genius but this is a whole new level!!!! You can even see Jesus falling and getting up along his way, and I wouldn't be surprised if all the 14 stops were actually covered in it :O

[@Schmuni]

+Maky Tondr Thats all composers had to work with back in those days. Classical music is FULL of that shit (references and symbolism), especially the clerical stuff. Bach rocks.

[@user-lf4ih9sh6r]

Yeah there's TONS of symbolism in Bach's music especially. Google "Canons and fugues of J.s. Bach" and find this site (www2.nau.edu/tas3/bachindex.html) there are a lot of resources there.

[@makytondr8607]

Houdini Trix THANK YOU!!!!!! :O

[@stalhandske9649]

While Herr Bach's magnificent genius is unquestionable, I feel compelled to give some of the credit to the surrounding culture. Here goes: I attended a lecture at my home city's cathedral last year. The lecturer was then finalizing his doctor's dissertation on culture and symbolism in Baroque music. His main thesis was that musical performing of the Early Modern Europe was understood as augmenting tool for rhetorics. Lowering or lifting the tone would sync with the tone or the meaning of the lyrics, giving audience "a feeling" for the argument. The lecture involved a bunch of musical examples of this (Bach only as one of them), very similar of Jesus Christ falling down during Via Crucis performed here. One outstanding master of this art, celebrated in his time but since fallen into (in my view) undeserved obscurity was Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767). Today his work is happily somewhat accessible thanks to things like KZbin! The genius of the thing, in my opinion, is making it all work as more than just as means of driving your point home - a purposeful, coherent, beauteous piece WHILE being consistent with the message of the work.

[@FourthDerivative]

Beautiful. I love all the explanations you added as well.

[@gerhardfleischer441]

absolutely fantastic ! THANX A LOT !

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

The beauty of these patterns and the pure brilliance of arrangement leading to the perfect harmony let me fall to my knees

[@papajoshua9230]

If anyone is wondering, 1:17 is when the vocaloid starts.

[@matthiasneese2079]

Stunning! love this, thanks.

[@slashtiger1]

This whole video was awesome, including the very truthful message at the end...!

[@Kioooi]

This is why I listen to the normal version also, the music is the universal language so much harmony it encases you, pure transcendence..

[@Stichting_NoFap]

I'm addicted to this.

[@leovancleynenbreugel]

Dear Soahc0, I adore the work you do. thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[@cornsonyt9379]

Underrated as HECK

[@KenRuzic]

so moving.... GREAT version!

[@ganemgg]

When I close my eyes while listening this, I think I'm playing Castlevania. So awesome

[@alfredblarzgh]

this is incredible

[@Mastercluster]

cant help even in your version this still is a masterpiece. Bach war ein genie der die musik zu benutzen verstand! thx 4 upload ;)

[@ShuyaTheDark]

woah! Vocaloid really caught me off guard here

[@unholypig]

Reminds me so much of Castlevania.. but of course the "real quality"

[@user-lf4ih9sh6r]

This is so damn good!!

[@pauljmeyer1]

A wonderful insight of a mighty intellect.

[@larg5847]

its like vocaloid, bee and puppycat, an 8bit synth collide and the result is this

[@oshikuru7363]

amazing program. what a cool idea

[@eanymeanyminymo]

Have I listened to this 100 times and memorized this yet? almost :-) thanks

[@ohmbettafish323]

1:17 I had a dream where a ballerina was dancing to that tune a long time ago, before I even knew this song.

[@Fumy]

i feel all, hate, solitude and despair, and everything that made me who I am today, im chinese, thx for this song bro

[@nickangel6596]

Les timbres sont vraiment créatifs. Beau travail!

[@0tf850]

Thank you!

[@bluecordprecisiongrading2504]

You would do an amazing job with the St John Passion opening as well!

[@aus822]

Ik! I hope they get around too it Also hope they understand how appreciated this work is

[@thomasfuller1580]

Wow. Amazing.

[@dans9317]

omg what I am listening to, its so beautiful

[@bluecordprecisiongrading2504]

This is absolutely incredible! I know it's a LOT to ask, but I would greatly enjoy listening to the entire Passion this way

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

I think that is nearly impossible. that opening must have been a terrific amount of work 100h+. Now thats 7 Minutes out of 160 Minutes. I think he must work 2000+ hours to complete it.

[@bluecordprecisiongrading2504]

@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 I imagined this took a lot of work. It sounds fantastic and is greatly appreciated!

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

@@bluecordprecisiongrading2504 we have also to consider that this work is about 10 years old. Maybe this guy is doing completely different things now. Nevertheless this is a GREAT work of visualisation Bach and ultimately let me realize how brilliant this man was. I even compared it with many other concert versions and really no orchestra seemed to play it absolutely accurately. Bach wrote something so complex and mind-boggling that no orchestra could gather all its different elements sounding in unity. Only by programming it, we can hear it, how it sounded in Bachs head. And why is that? Because the complexity was simplified in case of different instruments. We only have the 8 bit sound and the artificial chorals and still it is godlike. Or even more because it is the pure and naked structure!

[@lejoe48]

Grrreat work!!!

[@mtv565]

I love this techno version of Bach's music! Great transcription!

[@leopoldauer7390]

I listened to this while on LSD, powerful stuff

[@aaronmann9442]

Listened to switched on bach on lsd. Honestly the most profound musical experience i have ever had in my life. It is what brought me to this video and that day continues to influence me 5 years later. What was your experience like with this song?

[@imacat8476]

Lowkey dig this

[@Gedagnors]

Epic! Thank you!!!!

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

HOW CAN ONE MAN LIVING 300 YEARS AGO COMPOSE THIS?

[@stewartcubillos8809]

この投稿に時間を割いていただき、また英語を使用していただきありがとうございます。これをあなたのために翻訳しました。私はアメリカ人です。

[@FraktalPriest]

This is a concept I've never heard of, never imagined or dreamt of, and I instantly know it's for me. **Click** Did I just sing the *biggest possible* lay?

[@handofgod111]

Superb!

[@HikariP]

just try to think deep about this song while you remember that tomorrow is end of holiday

[@METALOZON]

Spaceships flying to battle.

[@Patriot1776]

I thank you GREATLY for making this and posting this! Vocaloids singing praises of LORD God YHWH Almighty! He is still even more at work in this world today, and His Spirit was with Johann Sebastian Bach to compose this timeless music, and now moved you to put it to this so a new audience can hear it! God's blessings be upon you! ^^

[@MrTofuwiz]

Simply transcendent.

[@doppler2246]

AMAZING! O_O

[@Treknologist]

Mmmmmmmm fantastic!

[@szebike]

Excellent work in visualising and decrypting this work of art thanks from germany! [Although the spelling is a bit strange but its only a bot ^^]

[@OdinComposer]

Amazing! I'm so happy the japanese enjoy this music! Let's all learn about each others culture and come together :D

[@ChiefKabehkar]

It is beautiful. As if I was floating in space. O_o

[@Advancedgod]

This is great - I'd love to the opening of the John Passion.

[@christo_travels]

Yesssssss!!! THIS^^^! This St. Matthew Passion is amazingly beautiful but the St. John's Passion opening would be unreal!

[@D4g0stin0]

Es increible como trabajan en conjunto todas las voces desde el 5:10, Bach el padre de la música.

[@ArachnoFool]

quietely reasoning about that last part.

[@mozgren]

Bach is the most versatile and adaptable of all composers. Technical problems don't matter much to machines and even this sounds good. Listen also to (more creative) jazz interpretations by the Jacques Loussier Trio.

[@christo_travels]

Love Jacques Loussier R.I.P.

[@ezequielstepanenko3229]

Somewhere along the internet I had a fight with somebody that claim that Mozart was better than Bach because Bach was pure mathematics, and no emotions, and Mozart was emotion plus mathematics, leaving aside the silly idea that music can be mathematics, this video is a perfect example of what my point was in the debate, Bach is pure emotion, if he can make people weep with an 8-bit computer sound how can you argue he has no emotion? This is the music of a God, how can you not be moved by it? Mozart was good, but never as good as this

[@aaronmann9442]

Morzat probably would have slapped the person who said he is better than bach. He idolised bach

[@anthropocentrus]

To say Bach is pure mathematics without emotion is simply, grotesque, ignorance. ( Although I prefer Mozart, I wouldn’t compare or rank one against the other)

[@ezequielstepanenko3229]

@@anthropocentrus I agree, I think there is a certain point of greatness in wich you can not possibly put one above the other, and what I mean is, for example, anyone would agree that Beethoven was better than chopin, or debussy, or puccini, but when you get to the level of greatness of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, it's impossible to objectively claim one better than the other, because there is no way of measure it

[@pdxnikki1]

What you all feel intuitively but cannot comprehend is the heart power of Christ and the harmonics of heaven. For those of you who do not yet acknowledge him, this is what his heart feels like. This is God's grace.

[@InkyCellist]

OMG. love.

[@Fumy]

luka vocal + bach matt>>all

[@bburago9]

God must exist

[@MyPosible]

bburago9 And he name was Bach, Already want to go to the heaven to hear him playing in live

[@bburago9]

Mom´s Children Oh no, I imagine God being so inmense reason couldn't even measure his nature

[@lindacowles756]

@@MyPosible No, God's name was not nor is Bach. God/Yahweh/Jehovah is the God Bach believed in and worshipped and to Whom Bach dedicated his music, writing Soli Deo Gloria at the end of his compositions (To the glory of God alone).