A bit of 5 but mostly 6, ambience is my #1 listen these days. Artists like Tim Hecker are great-- that's prolly a 5? Lower? I'm not sure.
Either way, I'm not at any position to feel any elitism because of the higher level, it just happens to be that most of the qualities i like in music happen to be textural, and abstract. They make my mind playback complicated imagery which blows my mind all the time.
Also, why are field recordings in level infinity? Naturespace is fukken amazing.
Unless they mean field recordings of urban things, the one album by Biosphere (level 3 tier??) is all field recordings. Pretty biased chart!!
I genuinely enjoy microtonal and non-12tet music. So I guess that's Level ∞ stuff haha
Atonal music sometimes strays into the "why are you doing this" territory, but properly executed atonal music can be really cool too.
(that thread in Musicians' Jungle Gym got me in a mood to listen to this stuff again, so good...)
I wish I had a piano tuned like this:
That's one of my favorite 19tet youtube videos... can't believe it's improv
Let's talk about weird stuff.
Let me present you Bull of Heaven.
They're known to make very long songs :
Don't be afraid, this is only part 1 of 200,000. The whole track (210: Like a Wall in Which an Insect Lives and Gnaws) is 9060 hours long, more than a year.
And, surprise, it's not their longest. They made 260: lcm(2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83). Supposedly, the duration is 8,468,560,238,751,771,034,868,848 years, 317 days, 21 hours, 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
Also, see 287, directly from their Facebook page :
287 is more than 10 billion years in length, compressed to a tiny 85 kilobytes in size. Warning: this file can permanently damage your computer. Ultimately, it decompresses to 1.263 Zettabytes, or 1.263×10^21 bytes, which Wolfram|Alpha assures me is 110 times the estimated information content of all human knowledge. So, take it easy and only unpack single files. They're all identical, anyway. Unless I stuck an Easter egg in there somewhere. I forget. Happy New Year, everybody!
They are known to have the album with the highest number of tracks (Aleph-Eleven (ℵ₁₁)). 10,000,000 tracks.
They made an inaccessible album. (137: The Meaning of Hysterical Symptoms). It has no duration, it just... doesn't exist. Pretty much like 264: The Sun Itself Sees Not Till Heaven Clears, it contains just nothing.
They made negative music. (the duration is in negative) Not for one, but for THREE albums + an excerpt from the last one. (wtf) (211: With Muffled Sound Obliterating Everything, 212: You Went to Meet the Shell's Embrace of Fire and, obviously, 213: Studying the Building From the Changing Angle - enjoy the titles ^^)
Also, there is 230: From the Garden of the Sun
Originally posted by Featus from RYM
These guys never cease to amaze me. It's a joke but it's really good if you ask me. You download a comparably small .exe file. Its properties say that it's an "anti-self-extractor". You click on it, and see the full text of the Bible. If you didn't have one before, here's a free one for you. After that you are told to select where you want to "spend eternity". Choose any folder, and then you may look at "This could take a while" with flying sheets of paper for the rest of your life and beyond
Let's talk about weird stuff.
Let me present you Bull of Heaven.
They're known to make very long songs :
Don't be afraid, this is only part 1 of 200,000. The whole track (210: Like a Wall in Which an Insect Lives and Gnaws) is 9060 hours long, more than a year.
And, surprise, it's not their longest. They made 260: lcm(2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83). Supposedly, the duration is 8,468,560,238,751,771,034,868,848 years, 317 days, 21 hours, 6 minutes, 30 seconds.
Also, see 287, directly from their Facebook page :
They are known to have the album with the highest number of tracks (Aleph-Eleven (ℵ₁₁)). 10,000,000 tracks.
They made an inaccessible album. (137: The Meaning of Hysterical Symptoms). It has no duration, it just... doesn't exist. Pretty much like 264: The Sun Itself Sees Not Till Heaven Clears, it contains just nothing.
They made negative music. (the duration is in negative) Not for one, but for THREE albums + an excerpt from the last one. (wtf) (211: With Muffled Sound Obliterating Everything, 212: You Went to Meet the Shell's Embrace of Fire and, obviously, 213: Studying the Building From the Changing Angle - enjoy the titles ^^)
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