Which one are you?

[Kibblre]

I think I'd be in 2 and 3.

[Nu0n]

I would be level 1 + some Dubstep and Ambient.

[Hateandhatred]

I have a friend who is heavily into tibethan throat singing rofl.

Otherwise, Im mostly into underground death and black metal.

[lumphoboextreme]

Levels 1, 2, and 4.

[Xayphon]

level 5/6 in particular

I listen to stuff in other levels as well tho

[Ohaider]

just incase you're curious

wallnoise

concrete

lowercase

tibetan

^^^^^ lowercase just sounds like 0 bpm ambient haha anyone else got more of that?

[Trogdor!!!!]

I want to meet someone in real life who actually listens to Wallnoise and Tibetan.

[Spenner]

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!!

[Choofers]

Originally Posted by Trogdor!!!!

I want to meet someone in real life who actually listens to Wallnoise and Tibetan.

at one point I owned a government alpha album come to vegas and drink with me

[TheThong]

I'm a bit of everything from level 1-5. Minus country music. Country music is displeasing to my ears. :\

[j-rodd123]

i listen to rap, pop, country, some rock, and thanks to ffr stuff like edm, idm, ambient, pretty cool stuff

[Reincarnate]

relevant

****ing crazy shit, awesome the entire way through though just to see the shapes the spectrograph makes

4:30+ = stuff gets eerie

5:30 for the hidden face embedded in the music XD


I've always wanted to see a good stepfile to this


EDIT:
The ending noises to the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCgqnGTfJ2M at 6:00+
Look like this:

[hi19hi19]

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

One more for good measure

[noname219]

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

It's like a game, but it's not fun.

[Trogdor!!!!]

Originally Posted by noname219

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 ^^)

Also, there is 230: From the Garden of the Sun

It's like a game, but it's not fun.

...what?

[Emanresu13]

Originally Posted by noname219

Let's talk about weird stuff.
Let me present you Bull of Heaven.

pretty interesting

[Ohaider]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

****ing crazy shit, awesome the entire way through though just to see the shapes the spectrograph makes

4:30+ = stuff gets eerie

5:30 for the hidden face embedded in the music XD

god aphex twin is unbelievably brilliant

[PsYcHoZeRoSk8eR]

I frequently listen to everything between 1-4, and dabble occasionally trying some stuff from 5. By choice, I would spend most my time between 3 and 4.

[Crazyjayde]

Originally Posted by noname219

Let's talk about weird stuff.
Let me present you Bull of Heaven.

Lol. Weren't you the one who told me I was being pretentious about mentioning BoH in my last post? :P You're kinda right though. At first, I was listening to uncommon music because I felt isolated from the mass. Now it's really just a matter of appreciating the structures and estheticism of the sound.

I think Bull of Heaven is conceptually incredible, but that's it. I see them as artists of the sound. Their statistics and numbers always have amazed me, but in a musical perspective, it just seems very bland.

Originally Posted by Spenner

Also, why are field recordings in level infinity? Naturespace is fukken amazing.

Also think it is illogical. Natural recordings reflect the origins of the sound and music. Many groups of people have been interested about making a parallel between the spectrum of sounds present in our environment and music. We've been conditioned to hearing our surroundings since forever, I don't think we could even say field recordings are "not a norm in society".

The f*** people care anyway.

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

****ing crazy shit, awesome the entire way through though just to see the shapes the spectrograph makes

This is the last song from Songs about my Cats of Venetian Snares called Look. Exactly why I think VSnares and James should have been twins. Except Funk really isn't scared about releasing everything he produces. Hence why some of his things feel humoristic.

[reptile3141]

So, I tried to answer this as accurately as possible. I only count ones on which I listen to on a DAILY basis (AKA listen to them frequently on my ipod or computer)
Level 1. Jazz (1 point)
Level 2. Metal, Dubstep (2 points)
Level 3. Extreme Metal, Folk (2 points)
Level 4. Industrial, IDM, Ambient (3 points)
Level 5. Noise, Experimental (2 points)
Level 6. Harsh Noise, Dark Ambient, Drone (3 points)
Level 7. Tibetan Throat Singing (I actually love this, lul) (1 point)

So based on this chart, I'd be a tie between 4 and 6. I personally see myself more in level 4...but a lot of genres are left out of this chart. XD