Several Terrible Ideas - Let's Write Impossible Music with Ben Levin Part 2

Writing music without any intention for humans to play it and enjoying the ride. It's actually forcing me to expand my vocabulary!

[mattstuart-white]

Plot twist: In episode 3 Ben plays it.

[dadatronaut]

... this was the first thing I watched this morning

[just-bruu]

This sounds like Sungazer doing coke and steroids...

I love it! Hahaha

[owenbowsher]

this really reminds me of jazz from hell by frank zappa lmfao

[AndewMole]

idea: to make really impossible stuff with drum set, play an open and closed hi hat at the same time.

[ColossalZonko]

This'll need both a vaporwave and nightcore version when it comes out...

[illsthaprophet]

I like that this is almost the opposite of the Let's Write With A Plan series, and that each of them can teach and inspire people.

[TheSquareOnes]

That last bit sounds amazing for sure, perfect example of how important it can be to have both tension and release in music. The stuff earlier in the video was cool in its own way as well but just having those brief stabs of "calm" really transforms the entire pattern into something beautiful.

[AndewMole]

idea: have odd number tuplets playing against each other at the same time.

[SendyTheEndless]

I like to make messy music like this, but I sample the cool bits and process them to make them sound like I found them on some dusty record.

[TheGrundigg]

That big chords with random fast middles seems like something I could hear in Animals As Leaders :D

[jordanparker]

watching ben *try* to groove to the worst rhythm ever made my day

[juanborjas]

"I'm a big loopy boi 'cause I live in 2019!" - Ben Levin, 2019

[zachpurcell]

Love the props to TYS! It was cool seeing you at the Indy show and saying hi even if the venue sucked

[alexanderkonczal]

Ben, this is really going places. this reminds me of the physical process of shingling a house, only on a grand scale.

btw I was the orange shirt weirdo you met in portland. you guys were amazing.

[Whasians]

Funny thing is.... this is the first thing I'm watching in the morning hahaha! You don't have to be sorry though, I find this very interesting and entertaining. So thank you for the enthusiastic wake up call!

[ScottPenick]

These new additions are really great. I'm excited to see where this goes!

[ilanlopez]

When you added the triplet kick drum the two parts really clicked in my head, I don't normally enjoy such aggressively chaotic music but I like this particular electric spaghetti

[solomoncaraway]

One cool thing you could try is mess around with the extremely high flute register in musescore. It's sounds very alien like

[Deromusic]

I did watch this the first thing in the morning with my coffee...God did I wake up....Lol