The 6 Weirdest Pieces of Music!

In this video I talk about the weirdest pieces of music that exist. I talk about the longest piece called ASLSP by John Cage, the shortest piece which is You Suffer by Napalm Death and The quietest piece which is 4'33 by John Cage. I also talk about some weird concepts like the Helicopter String Quartet by Stockhausen and some really odd sheet music, like MO-NO by Schnebel or Syncopated Textures by Tom Johnson.

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[matticawood]

The original commenter said "the longest PIANO piece" rather than just the longest piece. The longest piano piece is Erik Satie's Vexations...which is infact 18 hours 🙄 my bad! 😂

[sheaclifford]

>it's actually got nothing to do with silence

Absolutely zero is where the fundamental particles have minimum vibration. No clue if it was the intent, but it seems like a good fit if you imagine a string at the very extreme of how still it can be.

[oliverromm]

Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 9 is a piece written for four amplified shovels and a pile of coal (although I don't think it's ever been played). He also has a piece called composition No. 19 which was written for 100 tubas and has actually been played.

[wyattkmusic]

The idea for the helicopter string quartet came to Stockhausen in a dream.

[linga]

Can somebody explain to me how this guy only has 11 thousand subs?These videos are amazing!!?

[jazz]

It’s quite terrifying to think that, theoretically, that organ will be playing for hundreds of years without a single human left on the planet.

[KissyfaceJenkins]

I think 4'33" is the easiest piece to do a "cover" of, just post 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, but also a mindfulness exercise, while the piece is playing, listening to the world around you and that's the "music". Actually, there's a piece shorter than "You Suffer", it's simply called "The Shortest Song In The World" (technically not a "song" because there's no lyrics) and it's 0.765 seconds long. At first it sounds like just a few randomly struck piano keys, but I slowed it down and there was actually a melody there.

[h-Qalziel]

In terms of aleatoric graphic scores, one of the most famous composers is Cornelius Cardew, and I would specifically reference his piece 'Treatise'. The scores are beautiful and there are actually quite a few different recordings of the work which show the many different ways you could interpret the score.

[kjdasfaskjdbfaskfd]

"Pithoprakta" by Iannis Xenakis is written for 46 string players, two trombonists, xylophone, and wood block, and is an example of "musique stochastique" - according to an article I found, "Stochastic processes are those which have a random probability distribution that may be analyzed statistically, but never predicted precisely. Examples include bacterial growth patterns, electrical current fluctuation, and—in the case of Pithoprakta—the movement of particles within a fluid."

[terriblecrayon]

Descendents have a song called "ALL!" that is around the same length as "You Suffer". But I play in a band called Faster Disco that has them both beat. It's also matched with maybe the longest song title as well. The song is called, "A Series Of Events In No Particular Order As A Direct Result Of The First Thing You Said To Me On The Third Last Time That We Met Has Led Me To Believe That Life Is A Metaphor For Something Far Greater Than The Human Mind Could Possibly Comprehend, And If We Were To Actually Realize What That Was, That Massive Amount Of Information Would Caue Our Minute Brains To Either Cave In Or Explode In Unison". The song length is around 1 to 2-10ths of a second. It consists of a sharp high vocal noise along with a stick hitting the bell of a crash cymbal with a kick drum. We have a bandcamp. It's not a single, but it's buried among our recordings. Our first show was 94 songs in 23 minutes.

[NachoMan]

4:10 Absolute Zero would make sense, because sound is just the vibration of particles and at absolute Zero would be no vibration at all.

[crankyreed]

The 2 weirdest pieces I've ever heard performed are The Garden of Love by Jacob ter Veldhuis and Stop Speaking by Andy Akiho. Both involve one musician playing over a pre-recorded computer generated voice.

[User-ctwg]

At -273°C all atomic vibrations cease to exist which means every atom which is at that temperature is still ... Hence silence

[chrisamies]

John Cage (again) postulated a piece called "0'00"" that would be zero-length - so actually unplayable. At the other end of the scale Bull of Heaven have pieces that last much longer than ASLSP: their '310' is 3.343 quindecillion years. (it seems to consist of a large number of 29-hour loops - at this point I gave up trying to download it - so really is it one track or several?)

[filoue]

4:10 the point zero at -273.15 is when there's no agitation of particules

[stevesm]

Doesn't the fact that multiple artists will interpret Schnebel's Mo-No for themselves, however they play it, mean that this was the genesis of their pieces? By trying to interpret it, they have created a piece of art that originated with the notation. Therefore, it was initiated by Schnebel. - I really enjoyed this video. Stuff that gets you thinking.

[yayvn]

You could talk of noise and Harsh Noise Wall, with artist like Vomir. It's litterally just a wall of Noise during hours. It cans be interpreted as sub genre of Ambiant music (literraly noise, but more appreciable)

[pamdrayer]

There is another silent piece besides 4' 33'; The Ballad of Richard Nixon, by John Denver. It lasts for an astounding 4 seconds.

[flakogordo]

“you suffer” is a grindcore song, grindcore songs are usually very short and are usually 20 seconds to 2 minutes in length

[adsadasd]

Absolute zero has a lot to do with silence as a physical term and interpretation