Curious about the name? Inspiration: In a BBC interview, Jonny said the piece was inspired by watching children practice piano. He found it interesting how they over-emphasize easy chords and take long pauses when they’re trying to figure out what chord to play next, etc. Application: He wrote a piece with that in mind, had children play it, transcribed the outcome and gave it to a professional pianist to have fun with.
Listening to this feels like living through hundreds of years, struggling with new technology, witnessing wars, going into hiding, having nightmares, sailing across the ocean in a homemade raft being pushed with the tide out of your own control, crawling out of the shipwreck and wandering into to a beautiful meadow where you can finally rest.
Thank you for sharing all these rare songs! I love Jonny Greenwood's composition work and guitar playing and all of radiohead.! My biggest inspiration in both fields.
the only western use of microtonality i've ever heard (apart from the coda of "the real slim shady", which no one ever notices is microtonal) that actually makes sense. everyone else just tries to write conventionally and pretend it's fine that everything sounds out of tune. this thing actually hangs its hat on the weird. but of course it does: it's jonny.
I posted this to r/classicalmusic and got downvoted. It's such a beautiful piece don't understand why, maybe it's just that it's a bit too avant-garde I didn't like this my first couple of listens but god damn it did grow on me
@@routineparticular7104 maybe harmonically? You could argue that some parts of the original composition by Jonny before it was played by kids and transcribed into what we're hearing in this video followed classical principles, but even then everything following 4:15 is FAR from being classical. You said it yourself in your original comment, its too avant garde. The fact that it goes microtonal instantly puts it past classicism.
@@user-dx4rx3bt2l it's a more avant-garde style of classical music, but it is still classical music. Look up composers like Penderecki and Messaien (if I'm spelling that correctly), Edgard Varese, John Cage too. All very avant-garde stuff, but still under the umbrella of classical music. In a subgenre of classical, but still classical. Classical music is a very wide term, I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of the genre... This ended up getting a couple of upvotes on the subreddit, Loop did too. I posted Penderecki's Polymorphia on there too and it got a good amount of upvotes. Listen to Polymorphia, does it sound like classical music to you?
well, its supposed to sound like a child is playing it, over emphasizing notes and taking way too long of pauses, later in the song the notes just escalate and deescalate linearly like C D E F G A B A G F E D C etc. Writing a song through the lens of a child isn't going to sound perfect, but that's the point, and the orchestrated bits remind us of the beauty of an innocent child. If you listened further to the point where the notes just ascend and descend then the orchestrated bits are in aid of the eerie sound, a child smashing at keys CAN sound beautiful, but it can also sound like a chaotic jumbled mess hence the racing inconsistent drums and haunting strings. And finally by the end of the song, the child is gone, its mind has wondered elsewhere. And we're left with the orchestra, as it plays the child out. So in summary, children aren't great at piano, but that natural inclination to create music doesn't stop it, and that's beautiful in its own way.
@@EditUnivers75 Thanks to this video now I know I don't need to. I can make entire volumes of this. An entire collection of volumes. Then watch people on the internet overreact about it and speak as if they are an authority on something completely subjective.
Curious about the name?
Inspiration: In a BBC interview, Jonny said the piece was inspired by watching children practice piano. He found it interesting how they over-emphasize easy chords and take long pauses when they’re trying to figure out what chord to play next, etc.
Application: He wrote a piece with that in mind, had children play it, transcribed the outcome and gave it to a professional pianist to have fun with.
Thanks for that. My first thought was “this sounds rather dark for a children’s song”.
A very interesting concept, thank you for details
Hey!, Thanks man.
What an affinity for monstrously beautiful music. Jonny best nowadays composer.
It's how I play the piano too!
First 30 seconds definitely the precursor to For the Hungry Boy on Phantom Thread; such a great soundtrack
Wait that’s in the description... whoops xD
I thought it was familiar, but I'm not good with names.
Listening to this feels like living through hundreds of years, struggling with new technology, witnessing wars, going into hiding, having nightmares, sailing across the ocean in a homemade raft being pushed with the tide out of your own control, crawling out of the shipwreck and wandering into to a beautiful meadow where you can finally rest.
hahahaha
Thank you for sharing all these rare songs! I love Jonny Greenwood's composition work and guitar playing and all of radiohead.! My biggest inspiration in both fields.
this really sounds like when you are first learning to play Albeniz or smth like that and the song starts to make sense at some point
VERY BEAUTIFUL❤
I’m just a child who got old
Jonny is great!!!
beauty
His silhouette looks like Linus.
He truly can do anything and pretty much make it into a masterpiece.
I very enjoyed this! I thank you for the inspiration!
Very nice, I’m imagining myself dancing in a ballet.
Thank you, Daniel.
all i need
the only western use of microtonality i've ever heard (apart from the coda of "the real slim shady", which no one ever notices is microtonal) that actually makes sense. everyone else just tries to write conventionally and pretend it's fine that everything sounds out of tune. this thing actually hangs its hat on the weird. but of course it does: it's jonny.
yeah . sure . totally for children
Людина може любити просто дітей, просто дітей. Це дуже надихає по британському так
red wine sleeping pills help me get back to your arms
Need the score ASAP!!! ❤️ Where can I buy it?
Like, like, like
Just release Raha then
hi
Did they just claimed Life In a Glasshouse (Demo, Lo-fi) ?
Is there any chance I can hear it again somewere?
I posted this to r/classicalmusic and got downvoted. It's such a beautiful piece don't understand why, maybe it's just that it's a bit too avant-garde
I didn't like this my first couple of listens but god damn it did grow on me
it's not classical, what did you expect
@@user-dx4rx3bt2l Yeah this is classical
@@routineparticular7104 maybe harmonically? You could argue that some parts of the original composition by Jonny before it was played by kids and transcribed into what we're hearing in this video followed classical principles, but even then everything following 4:15 is FAR from being classical. You said it yourself in your original comment, its too avant garde. The fact that it goes microtonal instantly puts it past classicism.
@@user-dx4rx3bt2l it's a more avant-garde style of classical music, but it is still classical music. Look up composers like Penderecki and Messaien (if I'm spelling that correctly), Edgard Varese, John Cage too. All very avant-garde stuff, but still under the umbrella of classical music. In a subgenre of classical, but still classical. Classical music is a very wide term, I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of the genre...
This ended up getting a couple of upvotes on the subreddit, Loop did too. I posted Penderecki's Polymorphia on there too and it got a good amount of upvotes. Listen to Polymorphia, does it sound like classical music to you?
Does not need to be classical in a traditional sense to be classical at heart
Worst piano ever
well, its supposed to sound like a child is playing it, over emphasizing notes and taking way too long of pauses, later in the song the notes just escalate and deescalate linearly like C D E F G A B A G F E D C etc. Writing a song through the lens of a child isn't going to sound perfect, but that's the point, and the orchestrated bits remind us of the beauty of an innocent child. If you listened further to the point where the notes just ascend and descend then the orchestrated bits are in aid of the eerie sound, a child smashing at keys CAN sound beautiful, but it can also sound like a chaotic jumbled mess hence the racing inconsistent drums and haunting strings. And finally by the end of the song, the child is gone, its mind has wondered elsewhere. And we're left with the orchestra, as it plays the child out.
So in summary, children aren't great at piano, but that natural inclination to create music doesn't stop it, and that's beautiful in its own way.
@@EditUnivers75 I am going to write bad music and say it's just what I thought a child would make. Then I can be a genius too.
@@lnanimateCarbonRod You don't know anything about music do you
@@EditUnivers75 Thanks to this video now I know I don't need to. I can make entire volumes of this. An entire collection of volumes. Then watch people on the internet overreact about it and speak as if they are an authority on something completely subjective.
@@lnanimateCarbonRod you seem very upset by something you don't even like lol, just move on