Challenges in musical composition

[mattbell]

This only has 80,000 views so perhaps it hasn't covered the the entire internet yet.

(Jump to about a minute in if you're impatient)

They took some video of a cat "playing" a piano and turned it into a real composition. This illustrates that you can more or less take any source material and turn it into something interesting and aesthetically pleasing by cleverly filling in the gaps. I've seen it with writing, tattoos, sculpture etc.

Separately, it turns out I've missed all these internet memes because I had "something better to do", so this thing utterly confused me as I didn't know either of the source memes.

Comments

[mary-wroth.livejournal.com]

Ok. I love that damn cat.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

During the orchestral introduction I was wondering why it was so tonal, but then I realized that the cat was sticking mainly with the white keys, which enforces the constraints of tonality (or at least, one of the related modes). The couple instances of the cat hitting a black key were used nicely to create some modulations. There were definitely parts where it had a nice structure to it, but a few parts felt a little disjointed - but I guess that's what happens when you don't have much thematic material to tie a composition as a whole together. Definitely fun though!

The most confusing part for me was seeing the credits and being able to tell that this was definitely some sort of European language, but not one I know anything about. I'm goign to guess Latvian, or maybe Lithuanian, and then I'll check the information to confirm.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Alright, it was my second guess - I somehow thought that Lithuanian would have had more recognizable Polish influence, not that I really know much about Polish other than being able to recognize the style of spellings.

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

I was wondering how it would sound to someone who's been classically trained. :-)

[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

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[aaangyl.livejournal.com]

(If the link didn't make it apparent, check the reviews & customer pictures for 3 wolf moon)

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

I like the preferred 1-star review