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Game: Proteus
Title: Proteus Suite II 2
Composer: David Kanaga
Nominator: @Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6C5JHjONhA

This song is pretty contrasting from the previous David kanaga (basically opposite intensity level and environment evoked to me), but you can still tell unquestionably that it is the same composer

This one is a lot looser, there's polyrhythms here too but they feel way less deliberate...or maybe better stated: deliberately incomprehensible. Like a musical representation of all of the motion of the various different branches of trees moving at different rates or all of the droplets of water plunking into the ocean. Every Raindrop on the roof of my house. It sounds like when it is windy and the recently dislodged spinny thing on the top of my house gets extremely loud and blasts me with asymmetrical rhythm of an ancient robot that is made out of tree logs.

Some concrete examples of what I'm badly trying to describe here are like: those birds chirping toward the beginning!? You hear rhythmic patterns very similar to them in the beepy sine wave, juxtaposed to be right after. But I don't even really notice this unless I'm going out of my way to pay attention because well, this song is Incredibly ORGANIC (NATURE)

Every instrument choice here is very cool. But the ones I tend to get giddy about the most are the percussive ones, they feel so full...actually they feel the opposite they felt like HOLLOW LOGS and like, man they're doing the coolest elements of the song too. Those log drum type sounds with actual barely perceptibly tuned pitches are the ones most responsible for my favorite aspect of this (I could use buzzwords like "m4tric modulation" or "polyrhythm" but the most accurate thing to call it is VANTAGE POINT SHIFT). HOW You shift between different perspectives of everything surrounding because of different layers being at different tempos. Especially if one element is repetitive, the thing it's repeating will sound very different when a big tree sound starts hitting and at the NEW tempo the older repeating elements have had their rhythmic function entirely inverted

I may be speaking overly technically about something meant to be super loose and probably not analyzed with a serious fixation, but what i get most out of this song is a combo of those two things
1. The cool sounds
2. Perspective shifting between different things because of different layers at different tempos

This reminds me quite a bit of one album I came to appreciate not too long ago:

Ordinary Objects and Other Distractions by Steve MacLean
https://stevemaclean.bandcamp.com/album/ordinary-objects-and-other-distractions

It's a pretty experimental album but that's definitely not a deterrent for someone named "Place". It has a couple tracks that have the same rhythmic vantage point shifting feeling as this David track but a lot darker.

Temperamental Distractions is the big highlight of that album for me, as is the final all midi track. This also relates to this kanaga track in the sense that this album's selling point is kinda that so many of the sound sources came from everyday objects. This is different from proteus suite ii 2's actual exact source,s of souind. but i make the comparison in my head because it's music designed for showing you how the environment around you, in itself, is music.