The 6 Weirdest Pieces of Music!

[@Pugzilla0]

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[@musikid_official]

Your brain was right!

[@matticawood]

The original commenter said "the longest PIANO piece" rather than just the longest piece. The longest piano piece is Erik Satie's Vexations...which is infact 18 hours 🙄 my bad! 😂

[@sheaclifford5940]

>it's actually got nothing to do with silence Absolutely zero is where the fundamental particles have minimum vibration. No clue if it was the intent, but it seems like a good fit if you imagine a string at the very extreme of how still it can be.

[@adsadasd265]

Not the fundamental particles but close enough I guess. Well done 😊

[@wyattk.4304]

The idea for the helicopter string quartet came to Stockhausen in a dream.

[@oliverromm5869]

Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 9 is a piece written for four amplified shovels and a pile of coal (although I don't think it's ever been played). He also has a piece called composition No. 19 which was written for 100 tubas and has actually been played.

[@linga707]

Can somebody explain to me how this guy only has 11 thousand subs?These videos are amazing!!?

[@matticawood]

You are too kind 😊 I’m glad you enjoy the videos!

[@Pugzilla0]

Agreed

[@Wolfrey1295]

Ya why?

[@jazz9128]

It’s quite terrifying to think that, theoretically, that organ will be playing for hundreds of years without a single human left on the planet.

[@KissyfaceJenkins]

I think 4'33" is the easiest piece to do a "cover" of, just post 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, but also a mindfulness exercise, while the piece is playing, listening to the world around you and that's the "music". Actually, there's a piece shorter than "You Suffer", it's simply called "The Shortest Song In The World" (technically not a "song" because there's no lyrics) and it's 0.765 seconds long. At first it sounds like just a few randomly struck piano keys, but I slowed it down and there was actually a melody there.

[@chrisamies2141]

John Cage (again) postulated a piece called "0'00"" that would be zero-length - so actually unplayable. At the other end of the scale Bull of Heaven have pieces that last much longer than ASLSP: their '310' is 3.343 quindecillion years. (it seems to consist of a large number of 29-hour loops - at this point I gave up trying to download it - so really is it one track or several?)

[@m.f.5739]

Yes, I thought of Bull of Heaven immediately at the start of this video. They pushed the boundaries of what can be considered music to the absolute limits. As far as I know the huge tracks were uploaded as something called nested zip files. It would be theroetically possible to download it, but even the best supercomputers would have millions or billions of years to just extract it (besides, I doubt that there would be any medium able to store this amount of data). Pretty insane stuff. They had a lot of other strange concept too, albums that where literally unplayable due to them being completely different formats than audio, or even an album which lasted -00:12 seconds. They are definitely slept on when it comes to trupy boundary-pushing music. To me, they were always like a spiritual successor of the very conceptual pieces and approaches of modern classical/avant-garde music.

[@h-Qalziel]

In terms of aleatoric graphic scores, one of the most famous composers is Cornelius Cardew, and I would specifically reference his piece 'Treatise'. The scores are beautiful and there are actually quite a few different recordings of the work which show the many different ways you could interpret the score.

[@User-ct2wg]

At -273°C all atomic vibrations cease to exist which means every atom which is at that temperature is still ... Hence silence

[@kjdasfaskjdbfaskfd]

"Pithoprakta" by Iannis Xenakis is written for 46 string players, two trombonists, xylophone, and wood block, and is an example of "musique stochastique" - according to an article I found, "Stochastic processes are those which have a random probability distribution that may be analyzed statistically, but never predicted precisely. Examples include bacterial growth patterns, electrical current fluctuation, and-in the case of Pithoprakta-the movement of particles within a fluid."

[@terriblecrayon]

Descendents have a song called "ALL!" that is around the same length as "You Suffer". But I play in a band called Faster Disco that has them both beat. It's also matched with maybe the longest song title as well. The song is called, "A Series Of Events In No Particular Order As A Direct Result Of The First Thing You Said To Me On The Third Last Time That We Met Has Led Me To Believe That Life Is A Metaphor For Something Far Greater Than The Human Mind Could Possibly Comprehend, And If We Were To Actually Realize What That Was, That Massive Amount Of Information Would Caue Our Minute Brains To Either Cave In Or Explode In Unison". The song length is around 1 to 2-10ths of a second. It consists of a sharp high vocal noise along with a stick hitting the bell of a crash cymbal with a kick drum. We have a bandcamp. It's not a single, but it's buried among our recordings. Our first show was 94 songs in 23 minutes.

[@filoue2583]

4:10 the point zero at -273.15 is when there's no agitation of particules

[@crankyreed]

The 2 weirdest pieces I've ever heard performed are The Garden of Love by Jacob ter Veldhuis and Stop Speaking by Andy Akiho. Both involve one musician playing over a pre-recorded computer generated voice.

[@matticawood]

I haven’t heard these! Il have a listen to them 😊

[@hamahbamana137]

The Death Waltz

[@pamdrayer5648]

There is another silent piece besides 4' 33'; The Ballad of Richard Nixon, by John Denver. It lasts for an astounding 4 seconds.

[@yayvn1]

You could talk of noise and Harsh Noise Wall, with artist like Vomir. It's litterally just a wall of Noise during hours. It cans be interpreted as sub genre of Ambiant music (literraly noise, but more appreciable)

[@RodIdita]

Ideally, in a perfect vacuum, the temperature would be absolute zero, or -273.15*c, as there would be no atoms that could produce heat by moving around, hence, 4'33 is exactly 273 seconds long.

[@quackers3198]

0.0000000000297bpm. How long would it be until a note change?

[@matticawood]

It depends on how many beats the note is..but I think it took 7 years for the first note to change 😂

[@quackers3198]

@@matticawood wow!

[@adsadasd265]

Absolute zero has a lot to do with silence as a physical term and interpretation

[@Environmental-Time]

“you suffer” is a grindcore song, grindcore songs are usually very short and are usually 20 seconds to 2 minutes in length

[@caoshengzi]

8:04 count the number of notes and spam a key that much times 🙂🙂

[@Digitalmonster_2]

i want to see you play that electric drum set in your backround

[@insanefunkyfridayplayer9045]

I wish you have 1m sub I love your video!

[@matticawood]

Thank you! Maybe one day 😊

[@stevesm2010]

Doesn't the fact that multiple artists will interpret Schnebel's Mo-No for themselves, however they play it, mean that this was the genesis of their pieces? By trying to interpret it, they have created a piece of art that originated with the notation. Therefore, it was initiated by Schnebel. - I really enjoyed this video. Stuff that gets you thinking.

[@khairunnizam5968]

Matt check out Mark Applebaum! Especially aphasia

[@taronsento]

I love ur videos :)

[@matticawood]

Thank you! I appreciate that! 😊

[@taronsento]

@@matticawood I’m glad to hear back from you:). Keep doing what your doing:)

[@peluchegang8035]

When are you going to do it the thing☹️

[@matticawood]

Do the think? 😊

[@gaberdo84]

the most unwanted music is another weird song

[@drzirkle]

Isn't heat equal to vibration of molecules? Heat and sound being different propagation methods (of vibrations) through air. Absolute Zero is the "absence" of heat--while 4'33" is the "absence" of sound...

[@sarovah1]

Now I’m questioning everything I know about music :’D

[@garrygarrett70]

Conlon Nancarrow was the composer.

[@tacey_qz]

I am having my first concert in one month i am excited and scared 🎹

[@matticawood]

That’s very exciting! What are you playing? You will do great I’m sure 😊

[@tacey_qz]

@@matticawood Golden hour and River flows in you

[@taronsento]

@@tacey_qz hope it goes well my friend:)

[@daniloapostolov-dacatv1536]

4'33'' it's easiest to play.

[@sagar1992]

Look up Sorabji's pieces.

[@matticawood]

Il check some of the pieces out 😊

[@bbvv2967]

@@matticawood its been a while but i might just throw some sorabji recs out there 1. In the hothouse (musicforever60) 2. Fantasie espagnole (amato) 3. Piano sonata 1 (marc andre hamelin) Nocturnal works: 1. Le jardin parfumé (musicforever60) 2. Gulistan (hopkins) 3. Sequentia cyclica variations: 14, 19 (powell) All of these can be found on youtube, but this is a starter list

[@Taj1ne]

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[@Kyuudenmen]

Reaction "Tau 2 The Song With 12.566 Million Notes" By Pon MIDI's (Black Midi)

[@skysmasher2186]

Please react to: Michael Finnissy - piano concerto no.4 It is very weird.

[@Iwantapistash]

Play piano concerto no4 by michael finnisy.

[@quackers3198]

639 years! Oof!

[@goodboychrismas3263]

This dude is underrated

[@enlighten6016]

Ur very under rated player ngl

[@matticawood]

Thank you! 😊

[@taronsento]

Agreed

[@KonradSchK]

everything Ligeti made

[@cubelotion1421]

hi, new subscriber

[@matticawood]

Thank you! I appreciate you 😊

[@mina86]

There is, of course, no point. He made a shitpost and for whatever reason people didn’t recognise it for what it was. Just a joke. You can take any piece and play it with 1 bpm (beat per millenia) and you’ll get yourself slowest song.

[@kire6993]

I still cant believe Finnissy’s piano concerto no. 4 is a real piece kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHzJd5SJjNdno5I

[@shardakale3508]

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[@lego_by_leo]

Hi

[@matticawood]

Hi 👋

[@tomnaylor8252]

I can’t get on board with John cage at all. What’s the point ahaha

[@matticawood]

Amusement? 😂

[@Anza2700]

Can you react to Ethan Bortnick

[@matticawood]

I sure can, I will do that very soon 😊

[@SirVTropic]

Why "weird"? What about "unusual"?

[@__________________________hi52]

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[@lego_by_leo]

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[@1nonlyl1szt65]

yo can i plaese get a shoutout i can play rush e and hungarian rhaspody no.2 and im only 13

[@tootiefruityyyy]

4 33 is an absolute not classic

[@atticusmortimer9997]

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