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28st
Game: pop'n music 8
Title: Eien to Iu Na no Biyaku
Composer: Shunsuke Kida
Nominator: @banshiryuu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl_reDBFqeQ

so here we have literally a twelve tone serialism pop'n music tune?! hahaha. ok not exactly that but pretty close?! this sorta systematic-ish atonal music is one of my favorite categories, one that's often mocked as being totally devoid of potential to be understood by a listener, more specific than typical atonal stuff, it delibarately fixates on sequences of notes that rapidly use up all of thier pitch classes without repating any one pitch class more often than another so that they sound like a crazy horror movies. but hey, it tickles my ears pretty well! I remember when i was a little kid i was like "that's so fucked up and scary that you play some pitch classes more often than other ones, what would happen if you tried to make a song where you played all of them equally and obfuscated any sense of the tonal center......... " and then i became arnold. but i didn't know what that was until i was a lot older and when i learned that i thought it was cool because the reason i like music is basically because i like numbers and puzzles and stuff so when music is more like that i get more happy.

anyway, this song isn't quite precisely using that technique, i'm loosely transcribing/playing along right now and there's lots of note repeats or certain pitch classes that don't wind up getting hit. but the point is it is twelve-tone centric, and goes out of its way to choose notes that are NOT the notes that can be used to define a tonal center or conventional scale. it's probably harder to write something that "sounds as random" as this does, if you were literally playing random notes it'd probably incidentally sound more normal than this. so i'm pretty impressed with the way this has gone about that actually!! but it does the job well to avoid any ability for the listener to perceive a center (imo the point of this type of music, largely, a lot of the time anyway---to keep you hanging and untethered to ability to anticipate or feel comfortable, in one place. to keep you lost and uncertain). and all this is exactly what creates the maximum possible beautiful tension here

this reminds me a lot of the "rio/avant-prog" (rio stands for "rock in opposition") category of prog which is my FAVORITE category of prog because of so many reasons (i will go into this more intensely later in the topic, if i remember. you will be able to figure out why if you are a genius). if asked favorite genre (And allowed to be that specific) at gunpoint i'd probably say rock in opposition (aka "avant-prog") is my favorite genre of music. .,...a good example of why this song reminds me of that simultaneously nebulous and specific category of music is this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vpKn4UtsFs

even the fact that this 5uu's song starts with the slow atonal stuff, and eventually takes the same ideas but puts it into something a bit more energetic and fun! (man i would KILL to hear an actual rock in opposition pastiche in a rhythm game...like imagine if thins was in a rhythm game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1ewvzOKqgM

oh my god that would be so cool. or this (actually this song kinda sounds like Eien to Iu Na no Biyaku)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6wCmPCEHUw

anywaysS BACK TO PYRAMID . so. after that initial section, about a minute in it speeds up and gets a more like...actual scale. a cool weirdo scale that sounds like "Egypt" (i'm too lazy to figure out exactly what it is) but it's a neat contrast to the earlier bit in its own ways. but this song still keeps it's evil crazy notes lurking in the bakc to make sure it's still a connected whole.

i expected this song was weirder to talk about in terms of timesig stuff but really it's just. all 3/4 beginning (very slow 3/4 tho, with very little to indicate the pulse), and then when it speeds up it's 'weird 4/4', that sounds weirder than it actually is because it's three-bar-phrased (this in itself was probably what was throwing me off).

cool song that i did NOT think would possibly exist in a pop'n music game what the fUSE