Bravo to all involved! But then, Ben, I have to ask - what was happening off screen that seemingly distracted you all the time? Was there, perhaps, a giant cat? And you had to keep it from... l i c c ing itself? sorry.
I would have loved Andrew in this. Great change from "take the weirdest sound sources" to "now let's explore the traditional gizmos" and then maybe giving the players an extra day off, "this glissando is impossible, I will kill you". Same goes other way round: Have classical musicians work with a fistful of samples and hear them freaking out with joy, "I dithered this down to 4 bits and this is heaven! Now how about 2 seconds reverse reverb, yaaaa!" 🧸👌🏻💕🎹
I like how Ben was like "My instinct is to be ironic, but I decided to take this one seriously and disguise it" Then immediately after, Tantacrul was like "My instinct is to disguise this, but I decided to have fun with this one and be ironic."
Hey @Nahre Sol could you recommend some piano pieces with a similar mood to what you were playing? I really enjoyed the lighter twinkly aspect, and I'm used to hearing it in other instrumnets. Would be great to hear some piano!
Being that there is always someone or something that is the brunt of a joke, it's hard for someone with any sense of compassion to not lean towards jokes that are a lie. That there is a brunt to a joke, and that we feel compelled then to make up jokes that didn't actually happen, are both intrinsic to our growth as humans. Just like mistakes, and corrections are super important to us.
me too. specially coming from Ben. he always sounds sincere in his work. he's very funny, and often sarcastic, but also is always creating and expressing beauty in a very sincere way. this comment made me realize cynicism is ok sometimes. it's a valid defense mechanism and we can work around it if it's getting in our way. if the less cynical guy in the world feels bad about it sometimes, i can too LOL
My review: Adam Neely: a moist slap/10 Ben Levin: a moral heartbreak /10 Tentacrul: a gourmet cheese platter /10 Nahre Sol: a gently glistening but deep ocean /10 David Bruce: a granite carving /10
Your visual art prowess seams to allow you to reduce anything to a mere mental picturesque event! I love your art by the way! I'm jealous of your painting ability. Because I have yet to put in the practice time. Please paint more, I checked out your channel and subscribed!
"Why aren't we writing for accordion always?" As an accordion player struggling to find anything interesting to play these days, please write for accordion always!!
Korpiklaani uses a lot of Accordion, especially in older albums. Not sure if it's original or just them messing around with traditional songs as a lot of folk metal groups do, but maybe worth looking into? Not exactly the same kinda stuff played in this video. Example ruclips.net/video/rbTDy4PVz20/видео.html or ruclips.net/video/mLoF4eI8-MI/видео.html
Have you heard "Farmer's Market" (Norwegian band playing mainly jazzy balkan music)? They have the sickest accordion, man. Stian Carstensen is his name and he is equally nuts on guitar and banjo (and even more, i believe). I dunno, it might inspire your accordionesque ways ;) Killer band, for reals!!
The accordion is amazing. My first professional job as a musician was working in a music/furniture store in Oakland California that Dave Meniketti's (singer/guitarist for the 80's band _Y and T)_ grandfather owned, who was quite the accordion player himself. He had horrible taste in guitars though, most of them were total junk and I sold the only 2 good guitars he had the first week I worked there. So after two weeks he made me the in store guitar teacher instead. But I still remember listening to Mr Meniketti ripping on the accordion back then, and thinking how great it was that there are so many different instruments to make music on. Though it only lasted a few months before I got a better paying job, thanks for the job Mr Meniketti, you helped a young musician out in ways you may never know.
COMPOSITIONS 05:15 - Adam Neely 09:17 - Ben Levin 14:05 - Tantacrul (Martin Keary) 18:15 - Nahre Sol 21:59 - David Bruce REACTIONS 06:33 - Adam Neely 10:40 - Ben Levin 15:10 - Tantacrul (Martin Keary) 19:17 - Nahre Sol 23:26 - David Bruce This was awesome. Thanks so much for doing this, to everyone involved - composers and performers!
This is absolutely addictive. I have come back a ton in the past month and still can’t get over how awesome it all is. I’d love to see more content like this.
Frankly everything besides Nahre's piece sounded like a recent Zelda score, frankly I have to wonder if that is mostly due to instrumentation and some of the usage of this music.
I thought this the second i heard it. Brought back so many memories of the wind waker when i was a little kid. Measures 16-18 sounds similar to zelda and also some other parts.
Such a joy from start to finish. Hard to believe we were both nervously setting up mics this day last week! (How on Earth did you edit this so quickly?)
@@kwabzycomposer Yeah, exactly. He roasted an application so hard that he was made the head of design there. If that isn't royalty I don't know what is.
"My whole sense of humor has become basically lying." "I'm gonna make something sincere and beautiful" *_names song Memes Underneath Our Pleading Feet..._* _I see what you did there_
Man, I've listened to music all my life and never really got into classical music. Now out of nothing RUclips throws David's channel at me and I'm hooked. This was amazing.
0:19 "and the idea occurred to me that in the tradition of all the best artists I should steal from him as well" 20:40 "man, I'm gonna be stealing so many of these textures from all of these people" 24:05 "violin writing is just bloody brilliant and I'm gonna um.. take and um... steal it quite frankly" 25:19 "this very complete groove even when there's no drums, it's something I'm taking away from this" man, you can tell these are some mighty composers right there
I came for Adam, knowing he’d do something interesting. But I knew a bit about Ben from adam’s videos and was like oh boy, this should be funny! Then he absolutely knocked it out of the park with beautiful sincerity. Everyone did a great job but holy moly did Ben really exceed expectations and find a way to be clever about it. Where everyone else was purposely being derivative (per the challenge) he somehow made something that really stood on it’s own and didn’t feel like just a flex on the themes. I don’t know man, Ben just really mad something gorgeous.
Yep that one was incredible.. Would love to have it for listening, may need to make a cut just for personal use but it'd be cool if these were uploaded on this and/or their channels instead
This was the original intention of Anton Diabelli: take a simple melody (which he happened to have composed) and ask a whole lot of composers-some great, renowned composers (Beethoven topping the charts,) some teachers (Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner,) and even some fledglings (a ten-year-old youngster by the name of Franz Liszt)-all of Austro-Hungarian background-and publish the crazy array of ideas, fifty-one of them, that could come forth from all these brilliant minds. Beethoven, of course, decided to write thirty-three variations, instead of the requested one, on his own, which became his Op. 120, and that set is the most famous of the project; but it’s fantastic to hear the other approaches that come from the best of the best of the era, as well. Watching this video, where some really talented composers critique each other’s creations based on a common theme, just hearkens back to the 1820s when fifty composers were kicking back, and playing/listening to each other’s ideas on a common theme.
Why are you so nice and collaborative?! My own professors at the conservatoire destroyed my own motivation by destroying each other with slander from one lesson to the next. Congrats for this accomplishment and thank you showing a sweeter, kinder side of music and composition to everyone.
I’ve noticed there’s a growing change in musicians to be less competitive and more supportive to eachother, especially among younger people, and I’m very happy to be going through music school now instead of in the past
Nahre's reminded me so much of Joe Hisaishi- the way she used the piano with the other instruments made me feel like I was listening to a ghibli soundtrack. I almost cried- and I actually did cry at Ben's haha
I was about to comment that it would be great to have even stricter constraints (because then the differences of approaches would be more emphasized by making it easier to compare), and using the Marble Machine X would be an amazing way of doing that (altough it still has endless possibilities)
"There was an idea, to bring together a group of remarkable composers, see if they could become something more." Okay, this was amazing, loved the diversity of the pieces and the great musical ideas overall. Now, I know that is way more difficult to set up than "4 producers 1 sample", but I'd really love if it became a series! Anyway, keep up the good work you all!
Ben Levin's submission might very well be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. Knowing some of his other work I did not expect him to take it in this direction and I think Adam Neely's reaction sort of illustrates that. Absolutely breathtaking.
I loved all of these unique arrangements and Adam's arrangement was amazeballs, but Ben's (had never heard of him til now) took me on a whole journey and left me gently right back on my bed. That shit really spoke to me lol amazing job.
Wow. Talk about A+ content. I am floored by how good this is, as a RUclips video, as a community piece, as a collection of new compositions, as a completion of an ambitious idea. The amount of work that has gone in to this and the number of talented people involved is incredible. If music and videos are meant to make people happy, then you have succeeded. Bravo one and all.
Exactly my thoughts, especially in contrast to so much of mainstream media, which tend to cause rather misanthropic emotions.. stuff like this is like an antidote.
I concur! These videos of Andrew Huangs, this one & ZHC have become my benchmark for premium content, plus they support the community of creators. Have a nice day Sonny!
Forgive any pretentiousness, but as I was listening I wrote down some of what these pieces made me think about. Thanks for making this. Chroma: The versatility and sensitivity of these musicians are astonishing. Heroes. Adam: Technical, playful, confident. Utterly assured as to where it's going. Ben: Lovely, creative, intense, with an underlying melancholy. As with everything he does it touches the numinous. Tantacrul: Witty, folky, and unafraid. I never heard of him before I watched the video but he's damn good. Subbing. Nahre: Pensive, contemplative, the soundtrack to a restless but solitary evening listening to the rain. David: Joyous, earthy, sensuous. His humanism (and humanity) add depth and wisdom to every note. This is one of the most inspiring things I've seen on RUclips, and an example of what you can do with this medium that you can't do with anything else.
Hey! Master's student of the Bulgarian wedding music here. Cool project, and a lot of fun solutions! Great to see that I'm not THAT much of a lunatic, and that there are other people in the world sharing my humour. The first idea about the clarinet+accordion=Balkan is a cool way of thinking it, but I also notice the very typical Western approach to it, and I would prefer if the musicians and/or the composer had dug much more into the stylistic choices of the music. A 5/8 on the Balkans is always 2+3, called a "paydushko" (pajdusko/пайдушко), and the ornaments were far out, making it still sound like western musicians. Which is fine, I guess. But one should be aware of these things when writing for musicians that might be very unfamiliar with the styles of the music. I think this is a general idea, no matter the style. Get a classical musician to play any type of folk music, and it will sound weird and awkward to a folk musician who knows the music. Same way, get a folk musician to play NY jazz, and you get something even more strange. I have my background from Norwegian folk music, Nordic jazz and the Balkan folk music, and I've played in projects where the approach is from a more western classical point of view, and that became very awkward for all of us, I think. Same the other way. Notation of folk music (or jazz) is something that I find interesting, and close to impossible if one want ANY musician that is trained in one tradition to do something else, with only reading the scores. How detailed would it have to be, and when does it become too detailed, where it becomes unclear? ANYWAY, cool project, would love to make something with you guys, even though I'm not Paul McCartney, Mozart or Charlie Parker.
I loved David's version. The counterpoint, the chromaticism, the repurposing of those cliches into something new and very much itself - it's just wonderful.
I felt it was a very complete piece, it all felt so natural. He used the themes brilliantly so that they didn't feel at all out of place and created something very original.
You know what NOT to do here, right? A poll as to what version "is the best one"/"I like the most". Just loop this video again and again and revel in what the 21st century has bestowed upon us: musicians working with one another in what is basically no time. Well, to us viewers, at least. This video is in my personal pantheon of what RUclips can be about. Thank you Mr Bruce, and please forward my thanks to your "accomplices". This is simply stunning.
The way you worded that reminds me of Marshal Rosenberg, Ph.D and author of Non-Violent Communication. You feel me? No... Okay! Have a nice day! And thank you for enriching my existence by giving the most heartfelt compliment to content I also love.
@@tronkiechannel You have piqued my curiosity with regards to Marshal Rosenberg. I am not familiar with his work but I plan to rectify that soon! Thank you for the nice complement and have a great day!
@@Antilles1974 Only if you do! If you get the Audible audiobook of Non-Violent Communication, Marshal reads it himself. I've read it over 5 times now audio and physical. It's my #1 book I want to reread and reflect upon the rest of my life. All the best my friend. Your Pal, Connor.
I love getting to hear it twice. One initial reaction and then again while being broken down and deepening the experience. Also having professionals put words to the sense that the piece gives you is a treat. So glad to have found this channel. Such beautiful work.
This video has made me realize that being away from fellow musicians has left a huge gap in my life. It’s nice to experience this collaboration, thank you!
Ahh, post-modern quotation is alive and well and done to such delightful effect. Who knew that part of a composer's modern skill set includes arranging other composers.? The instrument selection seems characteristically David. Be great to move this more towards a Composers' Cooperative, and have each one choose an instrument and a theme to throw into the mix. Though Nahre already took that opportunity. Look forward to this Composers Co-op getting commissioned to do a piece for the Proms.
As a (very) amatuer composer, I found this powerful, insightful, exciting and, if I may say, entertaining. A couple of the compositions almost brought me to tears because they were so beautiful and moving. ALL of the compositions were fantastic and, yes, I would love to see more of this kind of video. 'Full marks' to all the composers and performers!
Watching this enchantingly creative collaboration almost feels like you're switching characters by performing Baton Pass when playing Persona 5 and every character with their unique superpower skills contribute to the team to create something unforgettable and in the end, they all perform All-out-Attack to use the best of their creative outputs and the end result is one of the most satisfying things I've ever heard and seen, the power that connects some of the most intellectual creatives of today's music education world! 😃💥🚀 You've just created an All-Star Team right there and from now on we're witnessing the works of the Hall of Fame Team of the future that's for sure!! Such a magnificent time we live in! Thank you so much for this incredibly unique and totally mind-expanding experience!! I really appreciate everyone who's been involved in this amazing project! 👏 Congratulations!!! 🎉 🎶❤️🧠🎉🙌💥✨🤯
as a music nerd I was just stunned when I saw this video. This wasn't just an experiment, it was a demonstration how diverse and multifaced the world of music is. I'm incredibly thankful to you all, the 5 composers and the amazing ensemble, you donated us an inspiring half hour.
These are beautiful , especially Nahre's piece , i found it moving in a special way . I really wish there was a way to listen to these scores individually .
It's incredible how radically different these 5 compositions have coming from the same idea, and how many COMPLETELY DIFFERENT techniques and processes each of them used. Love it.
There's little point a thousand comments in, but I've got to say that that was truly inspiring. I'm as amateur as they come; I dream of having a tenth of any one of these folk's composing chops. And yet I'm not intimidated and discouraged by this the way I sometimes am by ostentatious displays of skill. Thanks so much to everyone involved. You brightened my day and inspired my musical life.
Same, though unfortunately it probably won't happen soon. Somebody out there should write a concerto for accordion and orchestra or something. Also I keep seeing your comments everywhere.
Gubaidulina's Fachwerk from 2009 (for bayan); her concerto from 2017; or Henry Cowell's Concerto Brevis are all good places to start! My favourite use of the accordion has to be in Alban Berg's Wozzeck though... I find it difficult to listen to an accordion swell without hearing "Lustig, lustig... aber es riech".
Hi David, you are so right about placing basic restrictions to work within which frame and encourage creativity. The final compositions/ arrangements are up with the best in modern composing. Each of the chosen musicians has a thorough grasp of theory and practice. Bella Bartoc and Stravinsky influences are what I here in some of these arrangement.
Love to see different approaches, mirroring composers channels content, ex. Adam: I'got this ensamble to work with, what comes to mind? Nahre: straightforward explaining, what she did, focusing on texture. I also like how each of them bent "the rules" - adding piano, making baseline insted of permuting the motives, using other parts of quoted pieces... Best video I've seen in a lot of time. Keep up the great work, and maybe try it again some time.
I feel like one could really hear that David Bruce already had some experience with the ensemble and the others didn’t. The way the sound move together is just amazing!
I did not click on this as fast as possible because I had to go out to buy my favorite pastry and brew some tea to properly enjoy this. Seriously awe inspiring work from everyone involved!
I am a professional bandoneonist from Australia living in Argentina.. and everyone should write more for the free-reed aerophones! Accordion, Bandoneon, Harmonica... they are amazingly expressive complex virtuosic instruments!
Being part of this video is one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me.
Wow! And you were one of the coolest things in the video Ben! Such a joy to have you be part of it.
Bravo to all involved! But then, Ben, I have to ask - what was happening off screen that seemingly distracted you all the time? Was there, perhaps, a giant cat?
And you had to keep it from... l i c c ing itself?
sorry.
You cool Ben!
"Super expressive - you're the diva" LOVED that!
Ben, you're awesome!
Also, pimp isn't a compliment, at least not where I come from lol
this was an absolutely amazing experience! Thanks David!
😊 hello Adam
Thanks Adam. I think you were joint first place for laugh-out-louds with Tantacrul!
Friccen thicc licc m8
So, when's the vid on jazz accordion coming out, hmm?
never been more proud to be a patreon supporter than after I heard your work. brilliant.
well obviously i love this, great job everyone!!
It's happening. They are all here OMG
Yay andrew! Thanks for the inspiration!
I would have loved Andrew in this. Great change from "take the weirdest sound sources" to "now let's explore the traditional gizmos" and then maybe giving the players an extra day off, "this glissando is impossible, I will kill you".
Same goes other way round: Have classical musicians work with a fistful of samples and hear them freaking out with joy, "I dithered this down to 4 bits and this is heaven! Now how about 2 seconds reverse reverb, yaaaa!"
🧸👌🏻💕🎹
Bless up Andrew and David. Both of you inspiring everyone around! Both amazing. Them videos they're just great!
Wait what no we could barely handle 5 composers now we have another one you guys are going to create a music youtuber singularity if you don't stop
He really made Adam compose music around the lick. Literally the most qualified man alive for the job
haha exactly
David Bruce.. what can I say..
I like how Ben was like "My instinct is to be ironic, but I decided to take this one seriously and disguise it"
Then immediately after, Tantacrul was like "My instinct is to disguise this, but I decided to have fun with this one and be ironic."
This was a joy and thrill to be a part of!! Thank you for including me David 😊 Bravo to everyone involved.
Thanks Nahre! It was so great to have you be part of this.
Hey @Nahre Sol could you recommend some piano pieces with a similar mood to what you were playing? I really enjoyed the lighter twinkly aspect, and I'm used to hearing it in other instrumnets. Would be great to hear some piano!
Your playing is beautiful! What made you decide to add your own performance to the arrangement?
At first I thought inserting piano was kind of cheating, but after going over the rules/conditions I wish there'd been kettledrums as well.
Your pice was my fav! Felt like your piece could go on forever! Aw esome sound world you have, thank you!
This is the pinnacle of Music RUclips.
Have Rick Beato or 12Tone do a video analyzing these in detail and we can all go home.
Please!
Why not both.... In a collab?
or sideways!!!
The ultimate circle jerk.
It really was the pinnacle, a class apart.
"My whole sense of humour has become basically lying."
I can relate my friend.
wait, this is a joke, so it's a lie, but that means it wasn't a joke because it was a lie because it a joke so
@@squelchedotter Is this another one of those this sentence is false situations
Being that there is always someone or something that is the brunt of a joke, it's hard for someone with any sense of compassion to not lean towards jokes that are a lie. That there is a brunt to a joke, and that we feel compelled then to make up jokes that didn't actually happen, are both intrinsic to our growth as humans. Just like mistakes, and corrections are super important to us.
Irony isn't lying - it's just telling the truth, at a slant.
@bighugejake Ugh, the burden of my existence. You've nailed it.
"I've been drowning in irony lately. My whole sense of humor has become basically just lying."
dude... i felt that
me too. specially coming from Ben. he always sounds sincere in his work. he's very funny, and often sarcastic, but also is always creating and expressing beauty in a very sincere way. this comment made me realize cynicism is ok sometimes. it's a valid defense mechanism and we can work around it if it's getting in our way. if the less cynical guy in the world feels bad about it sometimes, i can too LOL
@@LulaRMunizI was just about to type up that exact same line. I laughed really hard at that, had to pause the video.
My review:
Adam Neely: a moist slap/10
Ben Levin: a moral heartbreak /10
Tentacrul: a gourmet cheese platter /10
Nahre Sol: a gently glistening but deep ocean /10
David Bruce: a granite carving /10
You absolutely nailed it all.
Your visual art prowess seams to allow you to reduce anything to a mere mental picturesque event!
I love your art by the way! I'm jealous of your painting ability. Because I have yet to put in the practice time.
Please paint more, I checked out your channel and subscribed!
Create With Connor - UwU thanks
Accurate
"a broken marriage/10"
Adam Neely: I know how Ben writes 😉
Hits Play...
Nevermind 😭
Love how his face changed when those suave harmonious notes just blasted through.
@@emuarubishi3369 not gonna lie dude... I totally cried
Ben killed.
@@mrhidetf2 Did he shoot the sheriff?
Hahahaha so true
"Why aren't we writing for accordion always?"
As an accordion player struggling to find anything interesting to play these days, please write for accordion always!!
Korpiklaani uses a lot of Accordion, especially in older albums. Not sure if it's original or just them messing around with traditional songs as a lot of folk metal groups do, but maybe worth looking into? Not exactly the same kinda stuff played in this video. Example ruclips.net/video/rbTDy4PVz20/видео.html or ruclips.net/video/mLoF4eI8-MI/видео.html
Mac Gallagher Try euphonium.
Have you heard "Farmer's Market" (Norwegian band playing mainly jazzy balkan music)? They have the sickest accordion, man. Stian Carstensen is his name and he is equally nuts on guitar and banjo (and even more, i believe). I dunno, it might inspire your accordionesque ways ;) Killer band, for reals!!
You ever heard of "Vallenato", Colombian traditional music in wich the accordion is the main instrument
Haven’t you played all the Finnish folk music? Can’t go wrong with that
It's not a competition, but my favorites were Adam and Ben and Tantacrul and Nahre and David.
Ben, Tantacrul, David and Nahre were obviously the winners.
Sup youtube? No ears? No sense of style? Clearly tantacrul, nahre, adam, ben and david won this one
Oh c'mon you guys are such idiots, it's fairly obvious to people that know about music that Ben, Adam, Nahre, Tentacrul, and David won!
im only not liking this comment because it’s at 666 likes
and whoever the 667th liker is, is a horrible person
Adam Neely's composition makes me wanna go on an adventure and save a princess or something.
EpicBlur SJC I was thinking Adams sounded like a video game thing.
Nobody Watching Adam’s really gave me Breath of the Wild vibes.
It’s very zelda-esque
Medieval theme
its like a jungle/forest boss from zelda
Tantacrul's is the theme to an artist trying to cope with the stress of the fact that coming up with something original is impossible
Ben Levin: "I tried really hard not to make something ironic-"
Also Ben: "Memes underneath our pleading feet"
Sometimes it really be like that
It do...
But hey he tried
The true duality of man.
They dont think it be like it is, but it do.
It didn't sound ironic, just the title did.
@@ibefullofme Sure, I just found that funny.
Everyone in this video: "Oooh, I'm going to steal that."
Ah, Musicians!
it's a bit like coding in that sense. Its one way to learn and add to your repertoire
*artists in general
Good artists borrow, great artists steal
Same for designers and illustrators. It's part of the fun.
Reads this comment: "Ahhh, I'm going to steal that."
Shit, I'm a bloody musician!
adam hears the licc in an odd time signature: *starts aggressively hitting his thigh*
search up playing the licc for five hours straight... he’s coping from ptsd
oyonggo fomocci one like = one prayer
being an obvious asshat - he is trying to figure out the time signature
Srg Fkct the berklee jumped out
Lick*
I loved the “Super Expressive, you’re the diva” annotation for the accordion in Ben’s score :D
Yesss :D
Ben seems to have a knack for weird but useful annotations.
5:15 - Adam Neely: the licc, but vaguely balkan, or maybe celtic, idk
9:18 - Ben Levin: Memes Underneath Our Pleading Feet
14:05 - Tantacrul: Profound Thematic Meditations, Op. 67
18:15 - Nahre Sol: 4 Composers Piece
21:59 - David Bruce: Elise’s 5th Little Overture
There are five kinds of composers...
She meant that 4 composers created the 5 motifs, double up by Beethoven in fur Elise and symphony 5
Ben takes the price!
THANK YOU!
i love how everyones reaction is "im gonna steal all of this" -and honestly same-
*_It's free real estate_*
i’ve got a wind ensemble piece i’m writing about a river and IM STEALING SO MUCH OF THIS
In which David Bruce ignites the youtube accordion revolution
Oh gods...
The accordion is amazing. My first professional job as a musician was working in a music/furniture store in Oakland California that Dave Meniketti's (singer/guitarist for the 80's band _Y and T)_ grandfather owned, who was quite the accordion player himself. He had horrible taste in guitars though, most of them were total junk and I sold the only 2 good guitars he had the first week I worked there. So after two weeks he made me the in store guitar teacher instead.
But I still remember listening to Mr Meniketti ripping on the accordion back then, and thinking how great it was that there are so many different instruments to make music on. Though it only lasted a few months before I got a better paying job, thanks for the job Mr Meniketti, you helped a young musician out in ways you may never know.
I want one now. Help me before I pick up 10 more instruments on impulse.
i for one welcome our new accordian overlords
COMPOSITIONS
05:15 - Adam Neely
09:17 - Ben Levin
14:05 - Tantacrul (Martin Keary)
18:15 - Nahre Sol
21:59 - David Bruce
REACTIONS
06:33 - Adam Neely
10:40 - Ben Levin
15:10 - Tantacrul (Martin Keary)
19:17 - Nahre Sol
23:26 - David Bruce
This was awesome. Thanks so much for doing this, to everyone involved - composers and performers!
Alessandro Sisti thanks man!
@@sierra3644
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Someone please PIN this too the top....jump links are so helpful!
This is absolutely addictive. I have come back a ton in the past month and still can’t get over how awesome it all is. I’d love to see more content like this.
will do my best - takes a while to organise though!
IKR, it been so long an I still come back to hear it from time to time
boy are you gonna flip!
I watched this video 3 times
@@DBruce Next you should try getting 5 musically illiterate people to write themes for an ensemble
Please, we need to also hear Chroma's side on how they felt while playing each piece!
Yes. This should be something like a three-hour long documentary.
I wouldn't watch a 3 hour version. Maybe on 2x speed? 10 or 15 minutes woulda been cool, but hey.
Sounds like Adam inadvertently made a Legend of Zelda Wind Waker score.
Frankly everything besides Nahre's piece sounded like a recent Zelda score, frankly I have to wonder if that is mostly due to instrumentation and some of the usage of this music.
his piece sounds so RPG-ey, feels like 1st town music
Nahre sounded like nier automata!
I thought this the second i heard it. Brought back so many memories of the wind waker when i was a little kid. Measures 16-18 sounds similar to zelda and also some other parts.
I was thinking this to myself simultaneously upon scrolling to this comment
Such a joy from start to finish. Hard to believe we were both nervously setting up mics this day last week! (How on Earth did you edit this so quickly?)
coffee!! But seriously dude, couldn't have done it without you!
I love you're software rants, but I have to say you knocked it out of the park here!
Sir! What notation software did you use for this video?
@@AndewMole Sibelius xD
Did u consciously choose to aim the null points of the violin and accordion mics that way?
I love Ben's instruction for the accordion in the sheet music: "Super Expressive, you're the diva". Definitely nailed it!
Adam Neely: Clever
Ben Levin: Sincere
Martin Keary: Irreverent
Nahre Sol: Earnest
David Bruce: Ardent
*Their pieces sound like their personalities.*
You often learn a lot about a composer purely through their instrumental music
I thought you said Tantacrul was "irrelevant" and I was like WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT OUR KING?!
Even though he may be irreverent, he’s still a king to all of us. He’s the head of design at MuseScore so we must treat him nicely.
@@kwabzycomposer Yeah, exactly. He roasted an application so hard that he was made the head of design there. If that isn't royalty I don't know what is.
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 please come be our king of garbage
Therapist: "Buff clarinet guy is not real, he can't hurt you."
Buff Clarinet Guy: •Plays wholesome music•
Me: :)
Seriously that guy looks like he could crush the clarinet lengthwise between his hands.
@@Roflcopter4b he's too powerful. the clarinet is the only thing that can contain his power.
Buff clarinet guy is real. He won't hurt you.
Clarinet people are the buffest humans, just look at Squidward.
stone cold steve clarinetist says that's the bottom line.
The phrase "Memes Underneath our Pleading Feet" is embedded in my heart now.
So tango!
Shouldn't it be "Beneath"?
@@Tmanaz480 I just took the title from 9:16. Ben went with 'underneath'.
"My whole sense of humor has become basically lying."
"I'm gonna make something sincere and beautiful"
*_names song Memes Underneath Our Pleading Feet..._*
_I see what you did there_
I mean, the bass line (the low part) is very memetic themes. So it makes complete sense.
He writes music over the constant onslaught of memes driving the beat. The name of the song is perfect.
The Lick: exists
Adam: *laughs*
If anyone deserves any laughter on that its him 😂
laughs, acts like he hates it, but uses it
It's contagious, it started a few months ago for me...
Adam: *ehehehehhehehehhe*
How to separate good band kids from bad band kids:
Play the licc, and if they laugh, they're good, and if they don't, they don't know anything.
Man, I've listened to music all my life and never really got into classical music. Now out of nothing RUclips throws David's channel at me and I'm hooked. This was amazing.
i feel guilty getting to watch this for free
Yeah they are all so geniuses. But we can support them on Patreon.✌
By god, it’s the crossover we’ve all been waiting for (and I like the reference to 4 producers 1 sample! hehe)
Most ambitious crossover of all time?
@@Rohishimoto More intense than endgame
💁♀️💁♀️☕
That's certainly not the original reference of the title.
"You can get some fat grooves in there."
Ben Levin, 2019
*phat
@@AlessandroSistiMusic phaet
this could be an amazing series! Please do more! :)
0:19 "and the idea occurred to me that in the tradition of all the best artists I should steal from him as well"
20:40 "man, I'm gonna be stealing so many of these textures from all of these people"
24:05 "violin writing is just bloody brilliant and I'm gonna um.. take and um... steal it quite frankly"
25:19 "this very complete groove even when there's no drums, it's something I'm taking away from this"
man, you can tell these are some mighty composers right there
I came for Adam, knowing he’d do something interesting. But I knew a bit about Ben from adam’s videos and was like oh boy, this should be funny! Then he absolutely knocked it out of the park with beautiful sincerity. Everyone did a great job but holy moly did Ben really exceed expectations and find a way to be clever about it. Where everyone else was purposely being derivative (per the challenge) he somehow made something that really stood on it’s own and didn’t feel like just a flex on the themes. I don’t know man, Ben just really mad something gorgeous.
Adam neely 5:15
ben levin 9:15
tantacrul14:05
nahre sol 18:15
david bruce 22:00
Thanks bro, doing gods work!
Literally looking for this. Only interested in Neely and Sol's pieces
Hacker0_o sol’s was my least favorite since she cheated with her piano lmaoo
@@bernie9543 I was expecting it
Hacker0_o yeah but my favorite’s was definitely Ben’s
Absolutely blown away by Ben's piece.. shivers all over. That vulnerable theme... shit. Amazing
mosstet it was so beautiful
I want a full piece that melody is buetifull and I love how he adapted it
I cried...
Yeah, the "I've been really wanting more sincerity" idea came through really strongly and I love it.
Yep that one was incredible.. Would love to have it for listening, may need to make a cut just for personal use but it'd be cool if these were uploaded on this and/or their channels instead
This was the original intention of Anton Diabelli: take a simple melody (which he happened to have composed) and ask a whole lot of composers-some great, renowned composers (Beethoven topping the charts,) some teachers (Czerny, Hummel, Kalkbrenner,) and even some fledglings (a ten-year-old youngster by the name of Franz Liszt)-all of Austro-Hungarian background-and publish the crazy array of ideas, fifty-one of them, that could come forth from all these brilliant minds.
Beethoven, of course, decided to write thirty-three variations, instead of the requested one, on his own, which became his Op. 120, and that set is the most famous of the project; but it’s fantastic to hear the other approaches that come from the best of the best of the era, as well.
Watching this video, where some really talented composers critique each other’s creations based on a common theme, just hearkens back to the 1820s when fifty composers were kicking back, and playing/listening to each other’s ideas on a common theme.
Thanks for that fact. That's just a super cool thing to have learned. Thank you a million. Love you three thousand.
Thats very informative. thankss
thks for info
Why are you so nice and collaborative?! My own professors at the conservatoire destroyed my own motivation by destroying each other with slander from one lesson to the next. Congrats for this accomplishment and thank you showing a sweeter, kinder side of music and composition to everyone.
Academics can be their own worst enemies
I’ve noticed there’s a growing change in musicians to be less competitive and more supportive to eachother, especially among younger people, and I’m very happy to be going through music school now instead of in the past
Nahre's reminded me so much of Joe Hisaishi- the way she used the piano with the other instruments made me feel like I was listening to a ghibli soundtrack. I almost cried- and I actually did cry at Ben's haha
Came for Nahre Sol's music, stayed for David's humour, leaving with 4 new heros.
I aspire to your league of human-ness.
This is true!
David: here's a bunch of music memes
Composers: *makes beautiful art*
What's the opposite of nihilism?
Memes are art
@@stokesa3122 msilihin
How tf did Ben make something so beautiful
Jep Hep it’s ben
Madison Pena that’s what he said. Ur supposed to capitalize people’s names so he’s not wrong!!
@@haltyouropinions3780 I think you missed Madisons point
Guitar player here. Thanks for making the music accessible for all people.
Hello fellow guitar player. People like you are rare in this comment section.
love the generous spirit of this interaction
Next time: 8bit music theory, rick beato, aimee nolte, OrchesterationOnline, 12tone, and Samuel Andreyev!
Edit: and Sideways.
8bit is my savior
Sideways too!
and Andrew Huang & Beardyman for fun :D but 12 Tone and 8bit for sure,
OrchestrationOnline is da best!
Oh man i would be so pumped for orchestrationonline
Can't wait for you guys to try this using the Marble Machine X ;)
You just have unlocked a whole new level of goosebumps man... 😍
It will be amazing...
Someone tell Martin about this comment. He'd do it you know, he's all about those crossovers!
I was about to comment that it would be great to have even stricter constraints (because then the differences of approaches would be more emphasized by making it easier to compare), and using the Marble Machine X would be an amazing way of doing that (altough it still has endless possibilities)
"There was an idea, to bring together a group of remarkable composers, see if they could become something more."
Okay, this was amazing, loved the diversity of the pieces and the great musical ideas overall.
Now, I know that is way more difficult to set up than "4 producers 1 sample", but I'd really love if it became a series!
Anyway, keep up the good work you all!
Ben Levin's submission might very well be one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. Knowing some of his other work I did not expect him to take it in this direction and I think Adam Neely's reaction sort of illustrates that. Absolutely breathtaking.
I loved all of these unique arrangements and Adam's arrangement was amazeballs, but Ben's (had never heard of him til now) took me on a whole journey and left me gently right back on my bed. That shit really spoke to me lol amazing job.
He has quite a few vids with Adam, they're great to check out. He has a unique way of discussing his music philosophy and approach. And cool hair.
Wow. Talk about A+ content. I am floored by how good this is, as a RUclips video, as a community piece, as a collection of new compositions, as a completion of an ambitious idea. The amount of work that has gone in to this and the number of talented people involved is incredible.
If music and videos are meant to make people happy, then you have succeeded. Bravo one and all.
Exactly my thoughts, especially in contrast to so much of mainstream media, which tend to cause rather misanthropic emotions.. stuff like this is like an antidote.
I concur! These videos of Andrew Huangs, this one & ZHC have become my benchmark for premium content, plus they support the community of creators.
Have a nice day Sonny!
New video, Sibelius crashed.
I clicked on this comment, but my screen was *F I L L E D W I T H G O R E*
Hahahaha
I laughed so gard at this.
Thank you! XD
@@RobespierreThePoof If you hadn't realised, it's a reference to Tantacrul's (in)famous Sibelius video. ruclips.net/video/dKx1wnXClcI/видео.html
*spat juice through the nose while reading comments and stumbling upon this one*
LOL, man. Really hard LOL. :D
Marvel: Our film is the greatest crossover in history
This video: ...
Nice Cm7 add 9 chord
@@theillusion3622 thanks! It's my favorite chord after DbMaj7#13 and the Mystic Chord
The ending just made me want to see more of the bands reactions to the different pieces. What an awesome video. And brilliant musicians!!
We need that vid
This is great! When I was in the NATO band we always talked about a project like this, but never found the time. Awesome.
"These are a bunch of pimps, and players, and they are my god" lol
I laughed and spit a little over my keyboard when I heard that, lmao.
I love when Ben says words
Well this is without a doubt the most ambitious anime crossover in history.
Forgive any pretentiousness, but as I was listening I wrote down some of what these pieces made me think about. Thanks for making this.
Chroma: The versatility and sensitivity of these musicians are astonishing. Heroes.
Adam: Technical, playful, confident. Utterly assured as to where it's going.
Ben: Lovely, creative, intense, with an underlying melancholy. As with everything he does it touches the numinous.
Tantacrul: Witty, folky, and unafraid. I never heard of him before I watched the video but he's damn good. Subbing.
Nahre: Pensive, contemplative, the soundtrack to a restless but solitary evening listening to the rain.
David: Joyous, earthy, sensuous. His humanism (and humanity) add depth and wisdom to every note.
This is one of the most inspiring things I've seen on RUclips, and an example of what you can do with this medium that you can't do with anything else.
Eric Mattingly go watch tantacruels critique of sibelius. Legit one of the funniest things I’ve seen.
This is truth.
Hey!
Master's student of the Bulgarian wedding music here.
Cool project, and a lot of fun solutions! Great to see that I'm not THAT much of a lunatic, and that there are other people in the world sharing my humour.
The first idea about the clarinet+accordion=Balkan is a cool way of thinking it, but I also notice the very typical Western approach to it, and I would prefer if the musicians and/or the composer had dug much more into the stylistic choices of the music. A 5/8 on the Balkans is always 2+3, called a "paydushko" (pajdusko/пайдушко), and the ornaments were far out, making it still sound like western musicians. Which is fine, I guess. But one should be aware of these things when writing for musicians that might be very unfamiliar with the styles of the music. I think this is a general idea, no matter the style. Get a classical musician to play any type of folk music, and it will sound weird and awkward to a folk musician who knows the music. Same way, get a folk musician to play NY jazz, and you get something even more strange. I have my background from Norwegian folk music, Nordic jazz and the Balkan folk music, and I've played in projects where the approach is from a more western classical point of view, and that became very awkward for all of us, I think. Same the other way. Notation of folk music (or jazz) is something that I find interesting, and close to impossible if one want ANY musician that is trained in one tradition to do something else, with only reading the scores. How detailed would it have to be, and when does it become too detailed, where it becomes unclear?
ANYWAY, cool project, would love to make something with you guys, even though I'm not Paul McCartney, Mozart or Charlie Parker.
Ben Levin’s composition was sooo beautiful, holy shit!
I loved David's version. The counterpoint, the chromaticism, the repurposing of those cliches into something new and very much itself - it's just wonderful.
I felt it was a very complete piece, it all felt so natural. He used the themes brilliantly so that they didn't feel at all out of place and created something very original.
You know what NOT to do here, right? A poll as to what version "is the best one"/"I like the most". Just loop this video again and again and revel in what the 21st century has bestowed upon us: musicians working with one another in what is basically no time. Well, to us viewers, at least.
This video is in my personal pantheon of what RUclips can be about. Thank you Mr Bruce, and please forward my thanks to your "accomplices". This is simply stunning.
I'm stealing your personal pantheon.
Ben Levin is a precious human being and we have to protect him.
I think we need to educate him.
The licc: *exists*
Adam Neely: *laughs in 11/8*
Yay one like
Yay one comment
snaps in 7:11
419th like
DO IT!
DO IT FOR ME AND ALL OF MEME LORD KIND!
i like your username/pfp
You're my favorite unvoiced glottal consonant
You can really feel Ben’s love for music, it’s basically bursting from him and it’s really inspiring.
I love how the overall sentiment is just "Ah! I love how they did xyz and blended it with abc. I'M GONNA STEAL IT."
Remember the Seagulls from Pixar's Finding Nemo? That seems to be symbolic of artists.
This has enriched my existence. I can't think of a better compliment.
I never watch long videos, but this made me stay and enjoy life, thank u so much for such a good content. Inspiring!
The way you worded that reminds me of Marshal Rosenberg, Ph.D and author of Non-Violent Communication. You feel me? No... Okay!
Have a nice day! And thank you for enriching my existence by giving the most heartfelt compliment to content I also love.
@@tronkiechannel You have piqued my curiosity with regards to Marshal Rosenberg. I am not familiar with his work but I plan to rectify that soon! Thank you for the nice complement and have a great day!
@@Antilles1974 Only if you do!
If you get the Audible audiobook of Non-Violent Communication, Marshal reads it himself. I've read it over 5 times now audio and physical. It's my #1 book I want to reread and reflect upon the rest of my life.
All the best my friend.
Your Pal,
Connor.
Timestamps (full pieces):
5:16 Adam Neely
9:18 Ben Levin
14:05 Tantacrul
18:15 Nahre Sol
21:58 David Bruce
because I'm addicted to this
Thanks
I love getting to hear it twice. One initial reaction and then again while being broken down and deepening the experience. Also having professionals put words to the sense that the piece gives you is a treat. So glad to have found this channel. Such beautiful work.
This video has made me realize that being away from fellow musicians has left a huge gap in my life. It’s nice to experience this collaboration, thank you!
PDFs and MP3s of all the pieces are available on my patreon: www.patreon.com/davidbruce
Would you ever put the recordings up for streaming, somewhere?
@@djggou and who are the talented people who played your scores?
@@theshyguy1580 www.chromaensemble.co.uk/biographies
Sol's was so ethereal, it felt like the moment was solidified briefly and then slowly slipped away.
Ahh, post-modern quotation is alive and well and done to such delightful effect. Who knew that part of a composer's modern skill set includes arranging other composers.? The instrument selection seems characteristically David. Be great to move this more towards a Composers' Cooperative, and have each one choose an instrument and a theme to throw into the mix. Though Nahre already took that opportunity. Look forward to this Composers Co-op getting commissioned to do a piece for the Proms.
RUclips should have an "I'm amazed" button, those melodies were a caress for the soul.
What a beautiful group of pieces.
¡Que maravillosas melodías!
As a (very) amatuer composer, I found this powerful, insightful, exciting and, if I may say, entertaining. A couple of the compositions almost brought me to tears because they were so beautiful and moving. ALL of the compositions were fantastic and, yes, I would love to see more of this kind of video. 'Full marks' to all the composers and performers!
Watching this enchantingly creative collaboration almost feels like you're switching characters by performing Baton Pass when playing Persona 5 and every character with their unique superpower skills contribute to the team to create something unforgettable and in the end, they all perform All-out-Attack to use the best of their creative outputs and the end result is one of the most satisfying things I've ever heard and seen, the power that connects some of the most intellectual creatives of today's music education world! 😃💥🚀 You've just created an All-Star Team right there and from now on we're witnessing the works of the Hall of Fame Team of the future that's for sure!! Such a magnificent time we live in! Thank you so much for this incredibly unique and totally mind-expanding experience!! I really appreciate everyone who's been involved in this amazing project! 👏 Congratulations!!! 🎉 🎶❤️🧠🎉🙌💥✨🤯
can I double love this comment please? (-:
@@DBruce Of course!! Thank you so much David, your comment made my day!! 😃 Greetings from Turkey! 😊🎉🙏
as a music nerd I was just stunned when I saw this video. This wasn't just an experiment, it was a demonstration how diverse and multifaced the world of music is. I'm incredibly thankful to you all, the 5 composers and the amazing ensemble, you donated us an inspiring half hour.
Adam's piece sounds like a jig from Zelda on jet boosters.
Briliant. Every single one of them.
B. R. I. L. L. I. A. N. T.
.org
Feels like Octopath traveler
That's what I thought about Nahre's part - the quick piano reminds me of the field theme from breath of the wild.
KingBobXIV exactly what I was thinking
bro i thought i was just playing way too much botw again i hear it as well
These are beautiful , especially Nahre's piece , i found it moving in a special way .
I really wish there was a way to listen to these scores individually .
WOW.....
Being just an amateur some 3577+++ points below all these guys... They truly inspired me!!! SOOO well done!!!
Thanks all of you so much!!!
It's incredible how radically different these 5 compositions have coming from the same idea, and how many COMPLETELY DIFFERENT techniques and processes each of them used.
Love it.
Like how everyone uses oddest meters and bruce just pulls of a straight 4/4 and IT WORKS!
It had heavy sincopation, though, and in fact he did speed things up to an actual 8/8. It does wonders for funkiness. :) I loved it.
There's little point a thousand comments in, but I've got to say that that was truly inspiring. I'm as amateur as they come; I dream of having a tenth of any one of these folk's composing chops. And yet I'm not intimidated and discouraged by this the way I sometimes am by ostentatious displays of skill.
Thanks so much to everyone involved. You brightened my day and inspired my musical life.
When I'm having a good day, I feel like I'm getting about 2% of their prowess...when they have a bad day.
I loved all of them, but thought that Adam's was the most intriguing.
We need these songs on spotify or something
David: Accordion should be in orchestra
Me: WHAT? NO.
Me minutes later: omg yes bb
Same, though unfortunately it probably won't happen soon. Somebody out there should write a concerto for accordion and orchestra or something.
Also I keep seeing your comments everywhere.
LifeOnTheEdge lol, I have been having good luck with having top comments on music and food related videos lately. I guess I’m just a cool guy.
Gubaidulina's Fachwerk from 2009 (for bayan); her concerto from 2017; or Henry Cowell's Concerto Brevis are all good places to start! My favourite use of the accordion has to be in Alban Berg's Wozzeck though... I find it difficult to listen to an accordion swell without hearing "Lustig, lustig... aber es riech".
@@costa5140 Thanks for tbe recommendations! There's always something out there, isn't there?
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 You're better off with Paul Creston's Concerto for accordion and orchestra, or Concerto Classico by Majkusiak.
people: "infinity war is the most ambitious crossover ever"
me: 5 COMPOSERS 1 THEME (ft. Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Ben Levin & Tantacrul)
They were like "Hold my Lick"
I feel like this video showed a really beautifully subtle side to Ben's music that I hadn't heard before. Keep up music like this Ben, I loved it!
I agree very much . I was very deep touched by Bens musik
Check out his album "People"! It's absolutely amazing and one of my favourite albums ever.
Hi David, you are so right about placing basic restrictions to work within which frame and encourage creativity. The final compositions/ arrangements are up with the best in modern composing. Each of the chosen musicians has a thorough grasp of theory and practice.
Bella Bartoc and Stravinsky influences are what I here in some of these arrangement.
That moment in Nahre’s piece where the whole ensemble’s playing the licc is so Steve Reich it hurts. Love love love it.
Love to see different approaches, mirroring composers channels content, ex. Adam: I'got this ensamble to work with, what comes to mind? Nahre: straightforward explaining, what she did, focusing on texture.
I also like how each of them bent "the rules" - adding piano, making baseline insted of permuting the motives, using other parts of quoted pieces...
Best video I've seen in a lot of time. Keep up the great work, and maybe try it again some time.
I feel like one could really hear that David Bruce already had some experience with the ensemble and the others didn’t.
The way the sound move together is just amazing!
it's so complete. I refuse to accept it's only a minute. some black magic is going on
I did not click on this as fast as possible because I had to go out to buy my favorite pastry and brew some tea to properly enjoy this.
Seriously awe inspiring work from everyone involved!
Ben Levin's piece brought uncontrollable tears to my eyes, and that is the highest compliment I've ever paid a musician. Bravo, Sir!
I am a professional bandoneonist from Australia living in Argentina.. and everyone should write more for the free-reed aerophones! Accordion, Bandoneon, Harmonica... they are amazingly expressive complex virtuosic instruments!