Alexey Voytenko "The music of Erich Zann" for violin solo (2009)
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2010
- Alexey Voytenko
"The music of Erich Zann"
for violin solo
(2009)
after H.P.Lovecraft's short story.
Performed by Orest Smovzh.
Dedicated to artist Yurij Nikitin.
Illustration by Yurij Nikitin 
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The tone changes constantly, from deep sea whale moans to quick sharp cutting notes. Chaos is beautiful.
Everyone imagined a different track reading the story.
Listening this version, I had chills down my spine discovering that some parts are just like mine.
I've always pictured Caprice 24, until I heard this composition. This composition is more accurate a portrayal.
I just imagined modern metal because it would terrify someone from back then
Thats my face when i have to go to work..
There is nothing behind me
There is nothing behind me
There is nothing behind me
*glances to the side*
There is nothing behind me
*turns around*
+LogicIsFail4100 There is nothing out the window. There is nothing out the window. There is nothing out the window. There is nothing out the window...
There is NOTHING out the window.
+LogicIsFail4100 Hooked person with eyes wide open: "What are you doing up so late.... Jimmy???"
....there is nothing behind that doorway....
theres nothing inside of my toilet
What if we use 100% of our brain
Me: listening to this while doing math
Git Gud wow same
have you met keziah yet?
LoL same
doing that rn
meth*
This made me feel unsafe in my own room, in broad daylight. Tugs at some unidentifiable creep factor deep within the brain. What a spectacular piece.
A mí no me hizo sentir más que tranquilidad, quizás sea porque los instrumentales inquietantes son muy de mi agrado
You obviously put Love into Your Craft. Maddeningly beautiful, Bravo!
Arkham Trailer Park hehe puns.
I see what you did there *finger guns*
Top 10 comments that deserve an award for best pun
minor key tonality with dissonance is what makes this music. very unique and actually very intricate. Jazz music has its own dissonant sections at times which makes it complex. Death Metal and Black Metal musicians thrive off of this concept. The music is supposed to invoke a sense of terror, dread and sadness.
The Red Comet I love music that balances the interplay between dissonance and consonance, it’s the reason why I like thelonius monk and rachmoninoff.
100% correct.
This is wonderful. I really can imagine myself sitting on the stairs listening to that through the door.
El Gordo Criticón i imagines me in a dark mine being chased by that guy
This gets very hard to listen to around 6:05... which is exactly how it should be. Very nice work.
Badass, but I always imagined the piece to be more furious, more speed, like in the story.
Sometimes Eldritch Horrors want to listen to a music work about slowly going mad, and not the quick descent into insanity.
@@lukestorm4866 ikr? Young people, always in such a rush.
abmackay boomer
@@lukestorm4866 this isn't just an eldritch horror piece of music. If you've read the story, you might know why OP says he thinks it should be faster. Don't want to spoil the story to anyone but if you've read the story you'll probably get what I mean and what OP means.
Idk, 3:07 seems pretty fast to me... maybe I'm crazy
I am old, Mr. Voytyenko, Mr. Smovzh, Mr. Nikitin. And I first read this story when I was quite young. It made quite an impression then. And you have made me glad that I lived long enough for the Internet to bring me this music. As you have written it, as you have performed it, as you have illustrated it. It is incredible, haunting and beautiful, and so very, very sad. Thank you.
Wow. You can almost hear the shrieks and screams and terror and horror in the solo. And the second half is like a sense of hopelessness and despair afterwards.
I love how parts of this make your skin crawl. Listening to it all uninterrupted, at about 7:19 you get an odd feeling in your chest and ears. Really good job on this piece.
It seems as if what makes it truly horrifying is a combination of dissonance but the fact that one single note is held throughout with the ramble of the violin
Absolutely loved the plucking around @4:52. Undoubtedly a fair approximation to what Lovecraft tried to convey. Its only pitfall being that it approximates a sound that Lovecraft set out of reach of ordinary genius. Genius the composer of this piece must possess.
I really love how the playing style and rhythm stutter occasionally. It makes it even weirder and more off-putting since the music is doing something unexpected, which is important in a story written by the man whose works featured indescribable and completely alien concepts. Erich Zann is my favorite Lovecraft story, so I adore this. Kudos!
Yes
YES
This is it!
This is perfect!
This is how my subconcious imagined it, this is what H.P.L suggested, I think...
or felt, or invented, I truly don't know. I truly am at a loss if words. It just feels absolutly right, or wrong in this case.
It's like finding something you didn't really even know you were looking for.
Like finding what entirely new and unknown polygon looks like. Or whatever that means.
Music to lose your sanity to. And there. It. Goes.
Mine already went. Where, I do not know!
I see what you did there >w>
gOeS
Can you lose what you never had? I suppose that means you’ve already lost it but then again you might find it somewhere like under the couch, I suppose I haven’t checked for it there but if I don’t find it then did I really lose it? because I might not have had it at all.
cringe
instead of feeling complete unease and fear, i feel a sense of inspiration coming from this person's work. this makes me want to experiment with this when i finally get my seven string guitar and try some really freak sounds of my own.
Knocked Loose 🤘🏾
absolutely wonderful. it's hideous yet subtly beautiful, and makes me feel like it's something Zaan himself would play.
Love it, seen a number of pieces titled music of Eric zann, of all of them, I feel this one really captures an appropriately alien sound
I just read it listening to this audio, and I really could feel the fear and the chills narrated during the story! Incredible, I wish I could read old Erich's notes.
Great musical piece. Not all fiction authors get to have such tributes... Another proof that HP Lovecraft was a genius.
And a racist
@@nika-bx2gl I literally wanted to write that
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It's magnificent AND terrible. There is some indescribable quality to it... It sounds different every time I hear it.
Extremely well done, atmospheric, and TERRIFYING! This will be excellent music for an upcoming Call of Cthulhu campaign I am doing.
The Phantom Safety Pin one year has passed, did you finish it?
three years have passed, did you finish it?
RIP this campaign
Four years have passed. I am convinced Cthulhu was not pleased with his efforts and probably ate this man.
Did you finish?
"It would be useless to describe the playing of Erich Zann on that dreadful
night. It was more horrible than anything I had ever overheard, because I could now see the
expression of his face, and could realise that this time the motive was stark fear. He was trying
to make a noise; to ward something off or drown something out-what, I could not imagine,
awesome though I felt it must be. The playing grew fantastic, delirious, and hysterical, yet
kept to the last the qualities of supreme genius which I knew this strange old man possessed."
I love how you can see the difference between comments from years ago and comments now
Marvellous. I just did a reading of this story on my channel and had a few requests for musical interpretations of Zann's music. I've since directed viewers to this video, as well as your videos of the contrabass solo and the cello solo. Great stuff, Alexey. I should also say that, quite by chance, I happened to have the violin and contrabass solos playing simultaneously (the contrabass starting approximately 20 seconds after the violin) and the result was...well, rather wonderful. Discordant, sinister, disturbing...lovely stuff 😄
When quarantine hits you hard and start to go insane because you have been outside in months.....
There is no such thing as bad music, just bad comprehension... I find this soothing and enjoyable
Even THATS WHAT THE MASK IS?
Makes me shiver, creepy, disturbing. Well played OP
I've never been more unsettled in my life
It's like Paganini tried to improvize Beethoven's Great Fugue, upside down and backward, trying to play all the parts at once, and did so while drunk out of his mind to the point where he forgot what he was doing and just gotten lost in it.
I am really impressed. It almost seems to grate on the ears, but not at the same time. Totally captures the feel of the tale.
Thanks Dr. Layman for bringing this awesome video to light.
_Fun fact: if you don’t have a bible, a copy of the Necronomicon will work just as well for an exorcism._
just don't be surprised if something much worse takes the demon's place.
Love how you shared this info under this video 😂
CambossX12 what’s a daemon aniway?
Depends if you want to try desperately( and in vain) to get rid of something, or if you want to hold it in our realm.
@@Kriegerherz15 What the SIMPLE MINDED FOOLS call "demons" are the source of all knowledge! They are power! They are GLORY! I know... They speak to me.... they speak through the book and through the stars. I hear their whispers in the corners of space, where shadows fold in unimaginable angles. You hear them too, don't you? No? But you will... I will teach you their Names, then you will see their whispers and hear their shadows too. * cackles maniacally *
Here thanks to Dr Layman. Excellent music.
Same
That magnificent bastard
Smae
This is exactly what i need for my pen and paper as ambient music! Thank you!
You sir are a musical genius... thank you so much for this masterpiece
Someone else made this music, not this guy. God I hate when people don't read the title
It was posted by the composer, Алексей Войтенко (Alexey Voytenko). I guess you're the one who can't read.@@itsmoonie4495
I can't breathe hearing this sound
어두운 느낌을 잘 살린것 같아서 좋고 점점 분위기가 고조되는게 인상깊었습니다 👍
i never thought i would find actual Erich Zann music please i love this so much im sobbing
I'm definitely going to be listening to this more than once.
Discovering this jewel right now. Deserves an animated short of course.
How beautiful it is, i have no words !
Outstanding work, truly outstanding. Makes William Walton's Cello Concerto sound like a summer picnic. Many thanks for this. M X
This sounds like Paganini but more dissonant and creepy; it really fits the story well. I like the drawing also.
So beautiful... I love how dark this is...
Very dramatic, passionate, intense music, thanks a lot!
Very impressive. Thank you for sharing this!
De todas as tentativas aqui no RUclips de repassar a sensação que a música, segundo o conto, traz. Essa aqui é a melhor
Principalmente aquela descrição que diz como a música parece ser impossível estar vinda de apenas um instrumento
esse conto é muito bom, li hoje e entrou para a lista dos meus favoritos.
I commend you, good sir. Perfectly executed.
Me, reading "The Music of Erich Zann" while listening to this master piece. I imagine myself sitting on the stairs in front of that door and listening to this music. What a dream.
I actually shed a tear as I felt fear and sadness transfer into me.
so lovely and divine...
Es lo más increíble que he escuchado.
Simplemente una obra maestra.
Im impressed i got the chills last night
This is wonderful.
It feels like he is sawing into the violin its perfect
THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
Wonderful!!!
I really like it for some reason, it reminds me of a distant memory that I can't quite remember
Have you been having nightmares lately?
Freakishly beautiful
It feels like my spinal cord is being used as the bowstring. Deepy unsettling i love it.
The violin shows lots of its qualities on this track.
It can sound like a slow, distant weeping, or the frenetic crawl of an eldritch being, ready to take your soul and your very sanity.
You should do a reinterpretation of this based on the dramatic climax of the story.
Brilliant!
I think you captured the essence of music (as decribed in the short story) very well.
This one really is the best story Lovecraft has written.
Tusalu its a good story but i preferr at the mountains of madness
Tusalu I love this story, however I must say that Pickman's Model delved close to my soul.
3:39 This must be what Caprice 24 sounded like to people at the time.
Zann lives!!!!!!!!! Fantastic!
Superb.
Dr Layman guided me here. Awesome piece.
Sad and scary at the same time
Of dats possible
of course its possible, ever listen to Black Metal?
^
A terrifying tragedy is what you mean
When I got to the Caprice No.24 part, I have never felt so anxious in my life.
I have examined maps of the city with the greatest care ....
perfectly done. 5 stars
You must be Erich Zann... o.O Just read the story and this fits so well with the description.
at 3:08 is somewhat the capriccio n.1 by Paganini "arpeggio" in minor version :D
This is genuinely unsettling.
Play this while you're camping or on a hike i dare you
oh god this one's scary and brings my soul to darkness
I like nice music I can sleep too. Soo peaceful 😌😴
And not wake up HA HA HA HA!¡!¡!!!
Psycho
I had dreams last night about the Red Violin, and the music in my dreams sounded a lot like this.
Anywhere I could buy the sheet music? I play Viola D'Amore, and would love to hear this with the sympathetic strings. This piece is delightfully terrifying!
OMG DUDE!!
That’s magestic!! I’m a big fan of Howard Lovecraft, and when I read this story at my 14, I had my own impression of that how the music should sound, BUT… your version is more accurate I think
Mind expanding music
I played this while making paper claws
I felt like i was selling my soul to oragami
im gonna die now XD
You need more Vitamin C
Marvelous
Thanks man, I'll check it out! :)
Hey, I'm intending to do a reading of this story on my other channel, would I be allowed to use this music in the background? It's really good!
What an awful, hypnotic melody.
Bravo. Lovecraft would have given this man a standing ovation.
I'm actually going to start working on a piece for string quartet (or solo violin, haven't decided yet) inspired by this story. This will definitely help me with inspiration.
Bravo.
There are infinitely more than quirks in this bizarre and rebellious sound architecture ... Like a naive soul not yet deflowered !
This is the kind of classical music even I can enjoy. Arvo Pärt's Tabula Rasa is another one. :)
Hi this might be a stupid question but does anyone know of any more pieces that sound like this. I like this kind of violin that I recognise from a few good gothic western type films and I want to use this kind of music for mine. Can someone suggest some more music that sounds like this. Thank you!
I only lasted 33 seconds before i got creeped out...REALLY dont want to listen to the next 9 minutes of this, but im gonna do it!!
Does someone know if there is a score somewhere for this piece?
Thank you.