The 6 Weirdest Pieces of Music!

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  • čas přidán 11. 11. 2022
  • In this video I talk about the weirdest pieces of music that exist. I talk about the longest piece called ASLSP by John Cage, the shortest piece which is You Suffer by Napalm Death and The quietest piece which is 4'33 by John Cage. I also talk about some weird concepts like the Helicopter String Quartet by Stockhausen and some really odd sheet music, like MO-NO by Schnebel or Syncopated Textures by Tom Johnson.
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Komentáře • 73

  • @Pugzilla0
    @Pugzilla0 Před rokem +27

    My brain said if I said Matthew Cawood 10 times, I'd get pinned. Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood Matthew Cawood

  • @matticawood
    @matticawood  Před rokem +14

    The original commenter said "the longest PIANO piece" rather than just the longest piece. The longest piano piece is Erik Satie's Vexations...which is infact 18 hours 🙄 my bad! 😂

  • @sheaclifford5940
    @sheaclifford5940 Před rokem +13

    >it's actually got nothing to do with silence
    Absolutely zero is where the fundamental particles have minimum vibration. No clue if it was the intent, but it seems like a good fit if you imagine a string at the very extreme of how still it can be.

    • @adsadasd265
      @adsadasd265 Před rokem +1

      Not the fundamental particles but close enough I guess. Well done 😊

  • @oliverromm5869
    @oliverromm5869 Před rokem +9

    Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 9 is a piece written for four amplified shovels and a pile of coal (although I don't think it's ever been played). He also has a piece called composition No. 19 which was written for 100 tubas and has actually been played.

  • @wyattk.4304
    @wyattk.4304 Před rokem +4

    The idea for the helicopter string quartet came to Stockhausen in a dream.

  • @linga707
    @linga707 Před rokem +16

    Can somebody explain to me how this guy only has 11 thousand subs?These videos are amazing!!?

  • @jazz9128
    @jazz9128 Před rokem +3

    It’s quite terrifying to think that, theoretically, that organ will be playing for hundreds of years without a single human left on the planet.

  • @KissyfaceJenkins
    @KissyfaceJenkins Před rokem +2

    I think 4'33" is the easiest piece to do a "cover" of, just post 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, but also a mindfulness exercise, while the piece is playing, listening to the world around you and that's the "music". Actually, there's a piece shorter than "You Suffer", it's simply called "The Shortest Song In The World" (technically not a "song" because there's no lyrics) and it's 0.765 seconds long. At first it sounds like just a few randomly struck piano keys, but I slowed it down and there was actually a melody there.

  • @crankyreed
    @crankyreed Před rokem +3

    The 2 weirdest pieces I've ever heard performed are The Garden of Love by Jacob ter Veldhuis and Stop Speaking by Andy Akiho. Both involve one musician playing over a pre-recorded computer generated voice.

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem

      I haven’t heard these! Il have a listen to them 😊

  • @chrisamies2141
    @chrisamies2141 Před 10 měsíci +2

    John Cage (again) postulated a piece called "0'00"" that would be zero-length - so actually unplayable. At the other end of the scale Bull of Heaven have pieces that last much longer than ASLSP: their '310' is 3.343 quindecillion years. (it seems to consist of a large number of 29-hour loops - at this point I gave up trying to download it - so really is it one track or several?)

    • @m.f.5739
      @m.f.5739 Před 4 měsíci

      Yes, I thought of Bull of Heaven immediately at the start of this video. They pushed the boundaries of what can be considered music to the absolute limits. As far as I know the huge tracks were uploaded as something called nested zip files. It would be theroetically possible to download it, but even the best supercomputers would have millions or billions of years to just extract it (besides, I doubt that there would be any medium able to store this amount of data). Pretty insane stuff. They had a lot of other strange concept too, albums that where literally unplayable due to them being completely different formats than audio, or even an album which lasted -00:12 seconds. They are definitely slept on when it comes to trupy boundary-pushing music. To me, they were always like a spiritual successor of the very conceptual pieces and approaches of modern classical/avant-garde music.

  • @hamahbamana137
    @hamahbamana137 Před rokem +2

    The Death Waltz

  • @h-Qalziel
    @h-Qalziel Před 10 měsíci

    In terms of aleatoric graphic scores, one of the most famous composers is Cornelius Cardew, and I would specifically reference his piece 'Treatise'. The scores are beautiful and there are actually quite a few different recordings of the work which show the many different ways you could interpret the score.

  • @terriblecrayon
    @terriblecrayon Před 7 měsíci

    Descendents have a song called "ALL!" that is around the same length as "You Suffer". But I play in a band called Faster Disco that has them both beat. It's also matched with maybe the longest song title as well. The song is called, "A Series Of Events In No Particular Order As A Direct Result Of The First Thing You Said To Me On The Third Last Time That We Met Has Led Me To Believe That Life Is A Metaphor For Something Far Greater Than The Human Mind Could Possibly Comprehend, And If We Were To Actually Realize What That Was, That Massive Amount Of Information Would Caue Our Minute Brains To Either Cave In Or Explode In Unison". The song length is around 1 to 2-10ths of a second. It consists of a sharp high vocal noise along with a stick hitting the bell of a crash cymbal with a kick drum. We have a bandcamp. It's not a single, but it's buried among our recordings. Our first show was 94 songs in 23 minutes.

  • @insanefunkyfridayplayer9045

    I wish you have 1m sub I love your video!

  • @taronsento
    @taronsento Před rokem +3

    I love ur videos :)

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem +2

      Thank you! I appreciate that! 😊

    • @taronsento
      @taronsento Před rokem +1

      @@matticawood I’m glad to hear back from you:). Keep doing what your doing:)

  • @yayvn1
    @yayvn1 Před 10 měsíci

    You could talk of noise and Harsh Noise Wall, with artist like Vomir. It's litterally just a wall of Noise during hours. It cans be interpreted as sub genre of Ambiant music (literraly noise, but more appreciable)

  • @Statuesque-zp5ti
    @Statuesque-zp5ti Před 10 dny

    Ideally, in a perfect vacuum, the temperature would be absolute zero, or -273.15*c, as there would be no atoms that could produce heat by moving around, hence, 4'33 is exactly 273 seconds long.

  • @sarovah1
    @sarovah1 Před 11 měsíci

    Now I’m questioning everything I know about music :’D

  • @filoue2583
    @filoue2583 Před 8 měsíci

    4:10 the point zero at -273.15 is when there's no agitation of particules

  • @Digitalmonster_2
    @Digitalmonster_2 Před rokem

    i want to see you play that electric drum set in your backround

  • @stevesm2010
    @stevesm2010 Před měsícem

    Doesn't the fact that multiple artists will interpret Schnebel's Mo-No for themselves, however they play it, mean that this was the genesis of their pieces? By trying to interpret it, they have created a piece of art that originated with the notation. Therefore, it was initiated by Schnebel. - I really enjoyed this video. Stuff that gets you thinking.

  • @gaberdo84
    @gaberdo84 Před rokem +1

    the most unwanted music is another weird song

  • @adsadasd265
    @adsadasd265 Před rokem +1

    Absolute zero has a lot to do with silence as a physical term and interpretation

  • @quackers3198
    @quackers3198 Před rokem +2

    639 years! Oof!

  • @Environmental-Time
    @Environmental-Time Před 7 měsíci

    “you suffer” is a grindcore song, grindcore songs are usually very short and are usually 20 seconds to 2 minutes in length

  • @P4pky-l4x
    @P4pky-l4x Před rokem +3

    I am having my first concert in one month i am excited and scared 🎹

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem +1

      That’s very exciting! What are you playing?
      You will do great I’m sure 😊

    • @P4pky-l4x
      @P4pky-l4x Před rokem

      @@matticawood Golden hour and River flows in you

    • @taronsento
      @taronsento Před rokem

      @@P4pky-l4x hope it goes well my friend:)

  • @quackers3198
    @quackers3198 Před rokem +2

    0.0000000000297bpm. How long would it be until a note change?

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem

      It depends on how many beats the note is..but I think it took 7 years for the first note to change 😂

    • @quackers3198
      @quackers3198 Před rokem

      @@matticawood wow!

  • @drzirkle
    @drzirkle Před 6 měsíci

    Isn't heat equal to vibration of molecules?
    Heat and sound being different propagation methods (of vibrations) through air. Absolute Zero is the "absence" of heat--while 4'33" is the "absence" of sound...

  • @enlighten6016
    @enlighten6016 Před rokem +2

    Ur very under rated player ngl

  • @cubelotion1421
    @cubelotion1421 Před rokem +1

    hi, new subscriber

  • @daniloapostolov-dacatv1536

    4'33'' it's easiest to play.

  • @atticusmortimer9997
    @atticusmortimer9997 Před 8 měsíci

    majic window

  • @peluchegang8035
    @peluchegang8035 Před rokem +1

    When are you going to do it the thing☹️

  • @Kyuudenmen
    @Kyuudenmen Před rokem +2

    Reaction "Tau 2 The Song With 12.566 Million Notes" By Pon MIDI's (Black Midi)

  • @skysmasher2186
    @skysmasher2186 Před rokem +1

    Please react to: Michael Finnissy - piano concerto no.4 It is very weird.

  • @goodboychrismas3263
    @goodboychrismas3263 Před rokem +2

    This dude is underrated

  • @garrygarrett70
    @garrygarrett70 Před rokem

    Conlon Nancarrow was the composer.

  • @KonradSchK
    @KonradSchK Před rokem

    everything Ligeti made

  • @User-ct2wg
    @User-ct2wg Před rokem

    At -273°C all atomic vibrations cease to exist which means every atom which is at that temperature is still ... Hence silence

  • @caoshengzi
    @caoshengzi Před rokem

    8:04 count the number of notes and spam a key that much times 🙂🙂

  • @lego_by_leo
    @lego_by_leo Před rokem +3

    Hi

  • @sagar1992
    @sagar1992 Před rokem +1

    Look up Sorabji's pieces.

  • @kire6993
    @kire6993 Před rokem

    I still cant believe Finnissy’s piano concerto no. 4 is a real piece
    czcams.com/video/bKfFaSWr4m0/video.html

  • @tomnaylor8252
    @tomnaylor8252 Před rokem +1

    I can’t get on board with John cage at all. What’s the point ahaha

  • @mina86
    @mina86 Před rokem +1

    There is, of course, no point. He made a shitpost and for whatever reason people didn’t recognise it for what it was. Just a joke. You can take any piece and play it with 1 bpm (beat per millenia) and you’ll get yourself slowest song.

  • @Anza2700
    @Anza2700 Před rokem +1

    Can you react to Ethan Bortnick

    • @matticawood
      @matticawood  Před rokem

      I sure can, I will do that very soon 😊

  • @lego_by_leo
    @lego_by_leo Před rokem +3

    1 min ago

  • @1nonlyl1szt65
    @1nonlyl1szt65 Před rokem +1

    yo can i plaese get a shoutout i can play rush e and hungarian rhaspody no.2 and im only 13