Making the LYDIAN scale sound UGLY? (ft. Shubh Saran, Justice Cow, Music is Win and Aimee Nolte)

Shubh Saran

Justice Cow

Aimee Nolte

Music is Win

0:00 Introduction
0:45 Shubh Saran
3:59 Justice Cow
7:06 Aimee Nolte
10:46 Music is Win
14:11 Adam Neely

MIXTAPE (the songs without the commentary)

LYDIAN RULES

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[AdamNeely]

Go check out everybody's channels! Justice Cow released hers as a standalone song here:

[OmicronGaming]

jokes on you adam, I can make any scale sound bad

[treyxaviermusic]

The Lydian mode remains undefeated, none of those were ugly. It just takes dissonance well.

[alicec]

Aimee Nolte's piece is like something you'd find on a dark corner of the internet that would make the subject of one of those creepy YouTube documentaries.

[orngejoos]

How is this video not called using the “uglydian” scale?!

[AimeeNolte]

I need more Tylenol. Mission accomplished, friends. Thanks Adam.

[delirium]

Shubh accidentally made a prog masterpiece. I dig it.

[yuvalne]

Adam in 2020: Lo-Fi microtones
Adam in 2021: Psychedelic Lydian

[heinerstrohmann]

Adam Neelys friends: "It was like chewing on broken glass."

Also Adam Neelys friends: "This has Adam Neely written all over it."

[plemgrubern]

Justice Cow's descriptions are the best

"it's like sirens... in the future"

[LeonardoHernandez-egdv]

Adam: "It's difficult to sound bad in lydian"

My songwriting: that's *cute*

[MusicisWin]

Adam: Hey guys can you play Lydian stuff that sounds ugly?

Shubh: ya np, i will devastate u with a metal masterpiece
JusticeCow: of course, i will write a disgusting pop anthem
Aimee: sure thing, i will rob you of all your happiness forever


Me: i can offer u one ugly face and some mildly ugly riffs

[mgsquared]

I’ve got mild Tourette’s so I rarely have a “tic attack” but something in Aimee Nolte’s song really caused me to go off. I guess that means she did a good job!!!

[batty.b]

Aimee's Teletubby trip feels like having the worst dream that could still be considered a dream and not a nightmare.

Edit: came back to this a year later, this still true, but worse. That definitely woke up something in another dimension and now that thing is coming for me. It may never reach me but it's definitely trying.

[JusticeCow]

"I felt like destroying something beautiful" -Fight Club and Aimee, Adam, Shubh, Music is Win, and I

[juampi]

Shubh: So I tried to make this sound bad

Me: Joke's on you I'm into that shit

[stanislawrybinski]

from now on, instead of asking "does it djent?" we should ask "does it Shubh Saran?"

[AdamODell]

I really appreciate how everyone used Lydian as a jumping off point for a bunch of conscious decisions about non-harmonic decisions. Treating pitch as an equal partner to rhythm, timbre, form, etc. made this so much better than “hey let’s just play up the minor seconds.”

[tomtregenza]

Amiee: The girl from Ipanema is crawling on the ceiling

[janegeland]

Holy shit, Justice Cow's one was intense! Literally brought on more chills and uncomfortable feelings than any song has in a long time. Absolutely fantastic