Tantacrul's Impossible Music - Let's Write Impossible Music with Ben Levin Part 5
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Tantacrul finished my impossible music series! He does a much better job making it impossible than I could have ever dreamed!
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Thank you to my pals at / benlevin for supporting this series!
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This is what you can achieve when you have passion
*shudders*
"Passion"... yeah, that's one word for it.
Passion is a very double edged word though isn't it LOL!
bwahahaha!
A beautiful example of so bad it's good. It's the Tommy Wiseau influence. Just fantastic.
Bloody marvellous
David Bruce Composer no u
Just imagine if Ben had sent the wrong files to the orchestra challenge.
I was going to give the comment a like but it is currently at 666 likes, sorry
Avant-garde wii sports is a genre I never knew I liked.
underrated
Just keep adding descriptors. “Avant-garde wii sports music with in-un-a-idiosyncratic tendencies towards a crashed computer or MuseScorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre”
Now that’s a genre I’d listen to.
Ps. That’s 17 r’s.
The new Sungazer single sounds lit
Feat. Ben
I was literally thinking this the entire time
I mean, I bet Adam Neely could play that bass part
The drumbeat is too simple.
Ben: writes piece that's technically impossible for humans to play but still fairly musical
Tantacrul: creates an absurdist behemoth that causes your software to malfunction
This is absolutely possible. Until the very end but still, 90% of it is possible
@@mortarsquad12 especially the bit where he writes like seven violin notes
@@simeondermaats brother I've seen crazier. Ernst
Sibelious crashed
@@casperes0912 Sibelious crashed
Ben's music: maybe possible for extreme virtuoso players who have years to practice
Tantacrul's music: you need four hands per instrument, x-ray vision, and the ability to make your instruments make weird static like when musescore starts to crash
That's just clipping, and MuseScore is nowhere near crashing.
You can get clipping on live performances. All you need is to play louder than your amplifier can handle.
@@QuotePilgrim it's not clipping, it's the CPU not keeping up with the desired sample size
I actually teared up from laughing this video was so funny to be but this comment ruined me
Actually, that's a very good point! Zappa had music not too far from Bens ... gulp
@@edelcorrallira Tbh, Ben's piece did not look that bad compared to many other 20th century pieces I have seen. If he were a more famous composer, orchestras would play it!
speaking of performance instructions:
I once played bass in a musical production in which one of the numbers took a riff from a popular R&B tune and directed me to "loop this 4 bar phrase until life loses all meaning."
i seem to recall Godspell has one or two good ones depending on the score you use, i don't remember exactly, but i seem to recall seeing performance directions along the lines of "thou shalt rock" and "jam until you're bored with yourself"
ROFLMFAO!!!
"Note the stem cell research" is up there with "remove cattle from stage" as some of my favourite performance directions.
Wait, where's "remove cattle from stage" from?
@@iota-09 Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz, a project not at all unlike this one. socks-studio.com/2012/05/19/the-unplayable-score-faeries-aire-and-death-waltz-john-stump/
@@iota-09 Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz by John Stump
And here I thought I'd seen some shit, like "Baltic Sea ferry", "ffffffff, brutissimo" and "play badly with beginner sound" in my scores.
"Feed the piano some hay"
Good ol' Lamonte Young
"The black beams can stretch - they can stretch really high."
nice throwback there buddy
Piano player: These are notes, I could play that perhaps
Tantacrul: *smiles mischievously*
The mad lad. He's written music that even MuseScore can't play.
3:54 He put in some rests so the piano player can just sit back for a moment and relax
"The black beans can stretch, they can stretch really high!" Crul Tantra
Beams*
ruclips.net/video/4hZxo96x48A/видео.html
@@NotAStranger2440 *Beans
"It's like a palindrome, but it's not a palindrome" is my new favourite quote
You know, I might be wrong but I got the distinct impression Tantacrul wasn't taking the commission seriously. 🐨
to the contrary, he took it far too seriously
@@josemiguelmaciasvocar2690 big brain time
You could make the argument that since he's involved with the development of software he's using for composition and playback it's relevant to him at least to start doing things that will test the stability of the software.
I think the idea at the end to overload the system for a distortion effect was actually pretty interesting.
I'll agree though that it feels like he was far less concerned with making something enjoyable as he was with making something incredibly obtuse.
"Note the stem cell research" and "play it like A" had me dying. This was amazing
holistic mind break fetish: make musescore suffer instead of irl performers. how therapeutic
Jacob Collier will play all parts by ear and June Lee will transcribe it
Likely
nah
At the same time
He has enough clones to play this by himself, he probably owns at least 1 8 string violin lying around his house
15:49 “That’s what you want” as musescore implodes
Chaotic Good
grey midi
hahaha tantacrul being goofy is entirely too powerful
(where's the good stuff?)
I would like
to open my toolbar
so I can add
a beautiful...
Oxy!
Hexy!
Demi! Semi! Quaver!
To my bar... (oh, why won't you let me do this?)
I got buttons that are all invisible
I got more buttons that are all invisible
(Ben, help me)
Oooh, Lordy, Lordy... (This is gonna be pear-shaped)
Now those are some Bent Knee lyrics
Poetry at its finest
3:06
I was laughing my ass off 😂
can we get a midi export of this to make our own arrangments
I'm American, but I have Irish roots and am obsessed with music. I doubled over a ridiculous number of times from laughter. This is one of the funniest things I've ever experienced.
I love watching people with a software background people do intentionally stupid things with software
This is one of my favorite black midis
3:35 "Sometimes, foreshadowing is relatively obvious."
its like being inside a headache only in a good way
this video makes me cry every time. out of fear, from laughter, or in awe, it makes no difference
I actually like this unironically. The beginning part is great, but pales in comparison to Tentacrul's spectacular additions
At least we know that Musescore can allow us to make graphic notation in some shape or form.
if this were sibelius, it would crash immediately
If this were Sibelius, it would crash without any music on it.
Nice to see black midi extend into classical composer software.
Brian Ferneyhough: *furiously taking notes*
Yesss! Glad I came across these last 3 videos after only seeing the first two after a while
I have NEVER laughed so much at anything musical - thanks man!!! XD
BTW, I like that he started by saying "I've spent months writing..." then in 10mins...
This made my day. Utterly and completely. Thanks!
Interesting to watch and listen to as a demonstration of the possible use of musescore as a virtual instrument on which you can push the boundaries of the possible, kind of how Nancarrow used player piano. In looking at Ben's violin chords you talk about them as playable, since they are 4 note chords. While I wouldn't expect symphony violinists to have them, I do have a 7 string electric violin and have been working at coming up with playable 7 note chords for it and Matt Bell on one of his Electric Violin Shop videos mentions a 9 string electric violin that John Jordan made. The longer we live, the fewer things seem impossible
5:36 "The black bars can stretch, they can stretch very high."
Aw I wanted to see Ben's reaction
I have never laughed so much my entire life. Well done Tanta... Well done
Tantacrul rules, his videos are really well edited and look great and that's not even his primary talent.
Ben you are very talented. It feels like something in the realm of Zappa
I am legitimately excited to see the new MuseScore update.
Genuinely sounds like something I would listen to
Bless people like you - you break software (and musicians) in the most creative ways.
I really love this piece, both Ben's and Tantacrul's sections. It's like an organized chaos friend with a no-holds-barred chaotic friend
'You might be wondering why I have a crazy version of musescore"
I would be... if I saw this when it was released and not after the dorico review.
Tantacrul took this a different kind of serious...
But still good
Yeah
Gotta say Ben's portion of the song is awesome. Sounds like it would fit really well with prog metal instrumentation.
Just give it to Nahre Sol, she eats impossible music for breakfast
Impossible music as digested by a classical musician.
Rafael Feliczaki Stop.
@@CiliophoraEuplotes I was just about to put the exact same thing. 🤣🤣🤣
@@CiliophoraEuplotes beat us to it XD
@@CiliophoraEuplotes probably would be her last digestion ever :(
just make a 9-tuplet and then select one of the beats and make a 9-tuplet in that and keep going until Musescore crashes
Guys, I don't know if you've actually realized this fully yet, but this is something truly special. Thank you for sharing.
This is like the "Just Game it Out" of software-aided composition.
Muse Score must have conveyor belts hidden somewhere in those menus...
ben was kinda staying out of the realm of black midi (the genre, not the artist) but this is starting to cross that line lol
I was hoping they would truly attempt to explore further, black midi music is such an unique and interesting form of music, the idea that one main purposes of the scores is to attempt balancing breaking the software in it was created for in half while also still being music; Maybe if we ask enough we could get them to try again, harder, explore the limits of musescore via black midi.
5:50 The black beams can stretch. They can stretch really high.
It legitimately sounds cool.
This is like like the far lands from Minecraft but in MuseScore
Just have a look at Brian Ferneyhoughs music: playing around with nearly impossible complexity all the time is his baseline, although his music IS physically playable and is regularly played.
This is beautiful
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA. I've not laughed so hard in a long time. Tantacrul went ham! All those little quirks and remarks are hilarious!
this is a composition study final exam if I've ever seen one
Tantacrul: the black beams can stretch, they can stretch real high
me: *gets ptsd because he made me remember the cursed sybellius video"
Tantacrul: Writes impossible music
RUclips compression algorithm: *cries*
"Stacking order" really does seem like a logicsl name for that to me.
The fast pizzicato chords are reminiscent of some of the synth sounds used by Battles, interesting!
I love the blast beat parts.
It reminds me of prog rock.
with colabs like this its fun to see the other contributors reaction to stuff, kinda wish we could have seen Ben experiencing this for the first time :P
I was once handed a google-maps screenshot of my hometown as sheet music. Safe to say that was one of my weirder experiences
I love that this is in musescore
I had a lot of fun watching this.
When can we hear the full single version of 3:07?
I would love it if you handed this music to one of those sight reading virtuosos. It would be interesting to hear their... let's say *interpretation*... of this piece.
Can’t you read the performance directions? It says “Play exactly what’s on the score you gobshite”. As far as I’m concerned, this is the definitive edition.
@@chroni3659 What do you mean your Violin doesn't have 10 strings?!! Not my problem
Ben Levin be like "I wrote some impossible music!"
Tantacrul be like "That's cute, hold my beer!"
Tantacrul: adds notes to a four note violin chord
Ysaye: hold my beer
Thank you for this. I hadn't laughed that much in a long time.
This so lit! Yeah!
Awesome👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
This has “Pavane of the Reconstituted Visigoths” vibes
Please print this out and give to musicians without explaining anything and see what happens
In the middle of the piece you should change to 312.79 Hz and then once it gets to the chaotic ending you change to pythagorean tuning
4:12 Is the MIDI... clipping?
Honestly that was perfect.
I know you guys are just baiting David Bruce to find a real orchestra to play this
This turned from "how do we make this impossible to play" to "how do we make sure the piano player feels like they will never see their family again" real quick
Sound like the game soundtrack for Mario Drops Acid.
Hey Tantacrul, another great video, thank you!
I was thinking about, ‘possible’ music on a 7-octave keyboard...given all the debates on pop music focusing on a tiny subset of possible sequences...and came up with two numbers, one for the number of possible options in beat 1 (10^34) and one for bar 1 (10^136). These are probably mathematically and musically dodgy and are based on a hand-stretch of a tenth, and able to play 5 notes in each hand at once...nothing shorter than semi-quavers...wondered about your thoughts on this? Cheers
oh dear, not the video I had pegged for making me rolling with laughter, but here I am, a half finished APA, three quarters of an online ordered pizza to go, and I'm in some sort of hysterics half way through a youtube video. Oh, it's tantacruel... business as usual folks
and im just sitting in my chair trying to understand why i cant stop laughing
I was wondering why you didn't immediately go for those impossibly fast notes when you first started this, but instead went for many different kinds of impossibility. Having the entire piece crush under the weight of black midi was absolutely perfect, and I felt that it gave the whole thing an essence of building up :)
i think the right step for finishing this project is to bring it into a form that is kind of possible to play and then record it with some poor souls
Nhat Tuyen Vo Dieu I think it could be sick saving it as midi and putting it into ableton to something and making the instruments even wilder
possible/playable music is boring, so no
I copied it onto my MP3 player, had a listen with headphones in bed, when it ended a woke up in the middle of antartica in my underpants
Art
this is the "house of leaves" of sheet music
amazing
surprisingly good
Can't wait for the score reduction!!!
Haha
The Musescore just gives up like "This is what I think of your "score", you monster!"
Oh, there are sections that remind me of the instrumentals of... I wanna say six different Vocaloid songs I love all mashed up, and the end result is more perfect than it has any right to. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy... at least, until Tantacrul gets his finger in it. Then I laughed til I cried.
Musescore ?
Now i need to know!
This is like if House of Leaves had a soundtrack
fun fact: house of leaves does have a soundtrack. it's by mark danielewski's sister. poe - haunted
Just a lot less paranoia-inducing, but possibly more disorienting
But is 1 bar of the music longer that the piece itself?
Amazing comment
I'm liking this new Jlin track
Oh God, I think I'm dying (from laughter).