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Well, they both sound like someone just combined the lead/solo and rhythm/background section into one piece played on one instrument, which is neat, but not som
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
Well, they both sound like someone just combined the lead/solo and rhythm/background section into one piece played on one instrument, which is neat, but not some mindblowing display of the limitations of current music theory and instrumentation.
I imagine our hard limit is human attention. We can focus on the lead and to a lesser extent listen to the background stuff but probably not listen to much more. I don't think we can really focus on some large complexity. That just ends up sounding like a discordant cacophony to us. If anything, we're made to enjoy fairly simple musical relationships. Chords can only get so complex before they sound off to us.
It seems to be a happy little coincidence that ten fingers is enough to make complex music without hitting too many practical limits. Just because that limit exist doesn't mean its wrong and that we need to overcome it. The same way a third leg won't let us run faster, fight better, or climb better.
- silverhydra 11y agoRather than sounding like it, that's actually what they are. I'm inclined to agree with the rest of your post, although there's certainly room for people to expand their knowledge. Death Waltz is an interesting exercise but definitely overplays its hand in a few parts and adds too much to the song, when Zun's compositions already err on the side of doing too much to begin with.
- david-given 11y agoIt's interesting to compare that version with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHNrRaQB4Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHNrRaQB4Q Audio's not good, alas, but it's actually being played by a human. It sounds like it's got all the complexity of the machine-played one, which of course it doesn't --- which does suggest that the extra complexity wasn't adding anything in the first place...
- fossuser 11y agoSomewhat unrelated, but I was pretty impressed by Hiromi Uehara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcKrd3K8_A&list=RD-HcKrd3K8_A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcKrd3K8_A&list=RD-HcKrd3K8...
- duskwuff 11y agoThat's a piano cover of "U. N. Owen Was Her?", which is the musical piece (from one of the Touhou video games!) which inspired "Death Waltz".