Conlon Nancarrow, Study for Player Piano No. 21 (Canon X)

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Conlon Nancarrow, Study for Player Piano No. 21 (Canon X). Aufgenommen mit dem Ampico Bösendorfer Flügel von Jürgen Hocker, der nach den Wünschen Nancarrows restauriert wurde. Recorded with the Ampico Bösendorfer Grand in the possession of Juergen Hocker, which was restored under the supervision of Nancarrow.

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@icecoldnut5152 4 жыл бұрын

Damn, my gamecube is taking forever to start up today.

@ayoubkaboul3548 4 жыл бұрын

Criminally underrated comment

@gamhacked 5 ай бұрын

@@ayoubkaboul3548 Who underrates it?

@EclecticSceptic 4 жыл бұрын

If someone in the 18th century walked in and saw a harpsichord playing this mad music by itself, they would flee screaming and fetch a priest.

@JGHFunRun 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think they would

@WolfgangXP65-67 2 жыл бұрын

No human ever has said anything better in my entire life in the history of humanity 😂

@tjhooker824 Жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@XiyuYang Жыл бұрын

In 15th century they would probably ask for a stake and start roasting.

@erwinvilluendas1187 Жыл бұрын

I live in the 21st century and have just done so.

@Aramanth 8 жыл бұрын

I want this played at my wedding...

@theoldgods7453 8 жыл бұрын

at the annulment

@cazadordemolinos 5 жыл бұрын

That'll be the shortest marriage in history...

@Alvaro-fh5dd 4 жыл бұрын

You must love your wife very much mate!

@makai888 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@Steinbach1984 4 жыл бұрын

I seriously wouldn't mind it.

@actualturtle2421 2 жыл бұрын

The way the bass notes and melody notes switched places was amazing.

@edadams146 2 жыл бұрын

It's like a palindromic crossfade.

@rr7firefly Жыл бұрын

you are far more observant than most humans.

@actualturtle2421 Жыл бұрын

@@rr7firefly I'm a musician lol

@jochanaan58 8 ай бұрын

I caught it too. And I'm a musician.

@buddyclem7328 8 жыл бұрын

He was either a genius or a madman, maybe both.

@indigo5601 2 жыл бұрын

often they goes together - which ever cometh first

@plekkchand Жыл бұрын

Actually, I think neither.

@shohanrahman9392 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Adam Neely.

@artemtsarevskiy2785 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@deflatedbag 3 жыл бұрын

im not the only one i see

@adamizakpospisil3486 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, David Bruce.

@Steinbach1984 4 жыл бұрын

I love how the caophonic flurry suddenly ends in an ordinary cadence. :D

@yuyiya 8 жыл бұрын

Conlon Nancarrow was born about 60 years too soon - he'd make the most intense EDM! ;-)

@theoldgods7453 8 жыл бұрын

EDM on severed Achilles tendon

@yuyiya 8 жыл бұрын

Frank Powers Ouch! ;-)

@keithgardner5818 5 жыл бұрын

No! He was born at just the right time! His music influenced Frank Zappa and others, and forced people to rethink structures of music. Great stuff.

@darkcnotion 5 жыл бұрын

*IDM

@HeavyProfessor 5 жыл бұрын

Keith Gardner Also Shawn Lane and Buckethead.

@dimentoplexitronum4923 6 жыл бұрын

When your right hand is so advanced it's musically evolved beyond the need be listenable, but your left is still learning

@KnightMirkoYo 4 жыл бұрын

You clearly didn't listen to it till the end C:

@reid.7680 4 жыл бұрын

Listen to the whole thing next time.

@matthewgriffin4068 4 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@VaguelyCanadian 4 жыл бұрын

@@KnightMirkoYo sure he did, left hand was just a fast learner

@luthor8 11 жыл бұрын

I play this every morning. With a single hand. I have 47 fingers in each one.

@artemtsarevskiy2785 3 жыл бұрын

Asian parent: Nice warmup, now play it backwards with your feet and blindfolded

@SmegmaGoblin 2 жыл бұрын

Chernobyl is a lovely childhood home aint it?

@deanwhitbread 13 жыл бұрын

I sat in a room with Conlon Nancarrow and a small audience at the Almeida theatre in Islington one Saturday afternoon and we listened to this. Delightful man, and unforgettable music.

@gamefreaktp 5 жыл бұрын

I think this is actually the scariest, creepiest piano piece I've ever heard

@jasonodonnell6444 3 жыл бұрын

wait until you hear about Wyshnegradsky

@heberlopez4942 27 күн бұрын

check out Gratitud by Arca

@iCommentify1 7 жыл бұрын

Google for this says "Genre: Classical" i AM LISTENING TO CLASSICAL MUSIC

@reubenl3973 4 жыл бұрын

yes, yes you are.

@LeftHandZapht 6 жыл бұрын

This is as if focusing on small clusters of pine needles as a strong wind blows through a forest. Genius work.

@J.Millhouse 5 жыл бұрын

What a poetic comment. Crystalline clarity

@stevedoolan1540 7 жыл бұрын

This camera operator is a GENIUS

@rosh_lal_music 6 ай бұрын

Lol

@tedgangersongs 5 жыл бұрын

I love the moment, around 2:05, when the tempi of the two voices meet!

@kirjian 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the voices of a demon

@munkipunk 11 жыл бұрын

Remarkable how the music actually resolves at the end there.

@JimmyMac2708 8 жыл бұрын

Black MIDI 1960's style.

@phydeauxddog 8 жыл бұрын

+JimmyMac2708 the music box is early digital play back

@phydeauxddog 8 жыл бұрын

His stuff jus t a copy

@shortshotgunman5582 6 жыл бұрын

More like 1860's

@keithgardner5818 5 жыл бұрын

A copy of what?

@phlubblebubble Жыл бұрын

@@shortshotgunman5582 Incoming pedantic statement: player pianos were at their peak of popularity during the 1910s and 1920s. I wish they were still a thing, the electromechanical action is so cool.

@hoon_sol 2 жыл бұрын

At last, the music that plays in my darkest nightmares; didn't think I'd ever find it, thanks!

@iancontreras7688 4 жыл бұрын

I fell in friggin love with this. What an amazing piece. I started tripping out watching the notes stroll by on the piece of paper as the piece phased between low to high notes carrying the recognizable rhythm.

@davidshur3882 8 жыл бұрын

Zappa loved him. That's how I first heard of him in the late 70's.

@it1094 10 жыл бұрын

Genius, of course. Same goes for all his works. Imagine punching all those holes.

@phydeauxddog 8 жыл бұрын

+Ian Tomlinson he gave a wood pecker some acid

@PikaSaiyanZero 3 жыл бұрын

So, my teacher left watching this as part of the homework. It's... like a music box hooked up to a piano, right? This was together with an orchestra were everyone intensely *not* plays, and a video of some dude touching the wrong parts of the piano. Bruh my head, what even is this homework...

@heavenlyboy34 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like your homework is 4'33" and other chance music classics. Pretty wild stuff, eh? Your teacher is awesome for assigning this. :) Teachers usually assign the well-known classics like Eine Kleine Nactmusik and Das Woltempiere Klavier.

@joshscores3360 2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the third piece is Helmut Lachenmanm's Guero

@Kosmo_Z 2 жыл бұрын

@@heavenlyboy34 Similar class topics from me, Music and the Brain.

@wbgo 14 жыл бұрын

Subtitled; "The day my Bosendorfer exploded." I always wondered what the roll and keys would look like playing this one. Thanks for posting!

@rloomis3 10 жыл бұрын

Wow, an autographed "score!" Very cool. Amazing how much variety and complexity he can produce using (most of the way through) only two voices. The gradations of rhythmic ratios (which end up sounding like tempo changes) are fascinating.

@yuyiya 8 жыл бұрын

Since they sound like tempo changes, they are tempo changes - no matter what process Nancarrow actually used to create them. Sometimes the more abstract ideas don't make immediate musical sense, whereas the old standbys of performance - dynamics, pitch, tempo, phrasing, repetition on various scales - are always quite directly effective in setting or changing a mood.

@DebraSalamone 3 жыл бұрын

you just got a new subscriber

@rloomis3 3 жыл бұрын

@@DebraSalamone Thank you! I watched all your videos - you're really talented, and your work is so varied...

@rloomis3 3 жыл бұрын

@@yuyiya It depends on how it's written. If the rhythmic durations grow shorter and shorter, or longer and longer, but the underlying pulse (perceivable or not) stays the same, then, by definition, it's not an actual tempo change. Sometimes one encounters what we call a "written-out accelerando," for example quarter notes followed by quarter-note triplets, then eighths, triplet eighths, sixteenths, quintuplets, sextuplets, etc. The effect is one of pressing forward, but the tempo technically remains unchanged.

@yuyiya 2 жыл бұрын

@@rloomis3 I won't argue about a definition that doesn't make sense to me! 😉 The perceptible tempo is the one that we actually experience, IMNSHO. What do you FEEL about that statement?

@Skoogorganist 4 жыл бұрын

I think there's a misprint at 3:35! Should be Ab, not A?

@mzmzmzmz1 4 жыл бұрын

Skoogorganist I actually think it’s flat. It’s a Bb

@jamesbench5339 4 жыл бұрын

Uhh

@WhatIsMyPorpoise 4 жыл бұрын

Arctic fox Blanket worry not, they’re obviously joking. ...right?

@nanamacapagal8342 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect pitch people be like:

@andrewwilliams9599 6 ай бұрын

A nice steady bass line, and an avalanche of notes in the mid-upper register. I LOVE it!

@barrywhite1872 3 жыл бұрын

Astonishing, thank you so much Juergen

@emerycoxiv1858 7 жыл бұрын

"Something's wrong with the right-hand part; is it lagging?" I thought. When I realized what was going on, I got the biggest grin on my face.

@ecliptic_equinox 4 жыл бұрын

Whatcha mean, I don’t... I don’t get it

@btat16 4 жыл бұрын

@@ecliptic_equinox They both switch speeds

@ecliptic_equinox 4 жыл бұрын

Not Happy that’s it?

@MmeHyraelle 4 жыл бұрын

@@ecliptic_equinox They invert their speed by a precise value, is a more precise answer. Nancarrow work is mathematically intense, especially the later works, this is where he transitions into these maths. wiki quote ; The longest and most important study by Nancarrow, Study No. 37 was initially conceived in 1965 and was finished in 1969. It takes up to 10 minutes to perform. It is a complex canon 150/1605⁄7/1683⁄4/180/1871⁄2/200/210/225/240/250/2621⁄2/2811⁄4, that is, a twelve-part canon. These twelve different speeds correspond to the ratios of the vibrations in the notes of a 7-limit just chromatic scale wiki quote 2 ; The Study No. 41, again for two player pianos, is divided into three parts: 41a, 41b and 41c. The first canon is {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{\sqrt {\pi }}}/{\sqrt {^{2}/_{3}}}}{\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{\sqrt {\pi }}}/{\sqrt {^{2}/_{3}}}} for the first piano, the second canon is {\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{3{\sqrt {\pi }}}}/{\sqrt[{3}]{^{13}/_{16}}}}{\displaystyle {\tfrac {1}{3{\sqrt {\pi }}}}/{\sqrt[{3}]{^{13}/_{16}}}} for the second piano, and the third is {\displaystyle {\tfrac {{\tfrac {1}{3{\sqrt {\pi }}}}/{\sqrt[{3}]{^{13}/_{16}}}}{{\tfrac {1}{\sqrt {\pi }}}/{\sqrt {^{2}/_{3}}}}}}{\displaystyle {\tfrac {{\tfrac {1}{3{\sqrt {\pi }}}}/{\sqrt[{3}]{^{13}/_{16}}}}{{\tfrac {1}{\sqrt {\pi }}}/{\sqrt {^{2}/_{3}}}}}} for both pianos, in the proportions marked in the first page of the score. A complete version of the piece was first performed at Kassel in Summer 1982.

@ecliptic_equinox 4 жыл бұрын

Mme. Hyraelle thank you

@kevinmitchell8650 3 жыл бұрын

Simply amazing!!! Ground bass/treble counterpoint. Treble as bass/bass as melody. Multiple Tempi. Multiple simultaneous melodies of all registers. Beautiful!!!

@bobloblaw9679 2 жыл бұрын

maybe on paper. the performance is triggering my fight/flight mechanism.

@kevinmitchell8650 2 жыл бұрын

@@bobloblaw9679 Thanks for your honesty. Human potential is amazing. We’re all capable of virtuosity. It’s a worthwhile goal from composers to listeners. Informed communication.

@Coolcat607 9 жыл бұрын

Whoa, this is mind blowing.

@michaelomalley8146 7 жыл бұрын

This is what my dreams sound like.

@prestokrevlar 6 жыл бұрын

Hardly one minute in and it's just beautiful!

@MichaelSayers 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this!

@federicobejarano3043 8 жыл бұрын

MIND = BLOWN

@philvalade2437 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of that part in the movie Amadeus where the emperor says: TOO MANY NOTES, 😂

@thefxbip315 2 жыл бұрын

Astonishing!

@zkat_masquerave 2 жыл бұрын

great now this is going to be stuck in my head all day

@flaflu82 7 жыл бұрын

Any octopus can play this

@jimchoong1215 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, no. Our hands have 10 fingers while a octopus has 8 tentacles and 1 tentacle is way too large to hit one piano note.

@MontoyaMatrix 5 жыл бұрын

But the octopus has thousands of suction cups.

@Master-Voland 5 жыл бұрын

Any monkey can compose this

@ripwfdopplr Жыл бұрын

music theory class! This is the first piece I ever heard from Nancarrow and it was the first thing I've ever heard like it! Although I didn't graduate from composition in college, this sure was insightful! : D

@maximaximo6450 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing.

@awwman6138 3 жыл бұрын

hmm yes, an elegant work of art

@ocean6857 3 жыл бұрын

time to play this in discord voice channels

@Schubeedoobee 11 жыл бұрын

the crescendo is amazing!

@Hecatonicosachoron 7 жыл бұрын

This is so cool!!!

@MisterAlbertoPiano 11 жыл бұрын

The first Synthesia xD. So great. Thanks for uploading this. Is a great piece of music history.

@francoissarhan 11 жыл бұрын

wunderschön !

@georgehughes6615 8 жыл бұрын

Is this the piece in square root of 42:1?

@fadlijihaddahanasetiawan5486 6 жыл бұрын

is this the one which was written in rhytm of 2/root 2??

@AbeLinguista 11 жыл бұрын

Huau!!!!!! ufff!!!! genial!

@HH-qm2gc 2 жыл бұрын

Is there sheet music for this or only the piano roll. If there is sheet music, how would someone notate it?

@vanguard4065 4 жыл бұрын

so much feeling

@DOSputin 6 жыл бұрын

Well done.

@guillermoarturohernandezsa1764 2 жыл бұрын

Realmente asombroso

@perappelgren948 11 жыл бұрын

Groovy!

@bigbadndn 11 жыл бұрын

it definatley influenced the creation of MIDI it takes on the same principles, machine that can do what man cannot

@theoldgods7453 8 жыл бұрын

am SO rockin'-out right now...

@mabuloo Жыл бұрын

Wow. The scroll is like a printout of a digital audio workstation screen.

@polkadot5593 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a swarm of flies. Good stuff

@johnkieferguitar 13 жыл бұрын

my favorite one

@RedDawgEsq 12 жыл бұрын

Can copies of Nancarrow's rolls be bought and if so, where?

@newgeorge 11 жыл бұрын

as far as I can tell, the pattern which is the canon transfers somehow gradually from the bass into the treble. Could it be that the end is a pure inversion of the beginning? although there is a definite coda when everything goes bananas I think.

@sutrasofdelight Жыл бұрын

That Bosendorfer won't soon forget this day.

@leswhitetrash697 4 жыл бұрын

Cecil Taylor meets Scott Joplin on five dried grams of Psilocybin ....

@kingconcerto5860 Жыл бұрын

Why you only showed the actual keyboard for an extremely small portion of this is completely beyond me. This should have been a stationary shot of the entire keyboard from start to finish.

@Sverd_Ok_Skjoldr 4 жыл бұрын

Ahh the sound of countless carnivorous insects engulfing your body, then eating you alive as your life slowly ceases to be. Just what I needed today. Thanks!

@nerfpup3089 Жыл бұрын

Damn. I never thought a song could actually stress me out. I thought I was bulletproof

@kingconcerto5860 Жыл бұрын

This isn't a song.

@andrewroberts8139 7 жыл бұрын

There is a mistake at 2:20.

@grufgoinHAHAHA 6 жыл бұрын

totally noticed that.....it is spoiling the song right?

@sam_bamalam 12 жыл бұрын

@spinks959 But not as systematically as Nancarrow did. The score for this piece is so amazingly smart. Nancarrow's thoughts on tempo are so impressive.

@Javierfgt 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Adam Neely

@user-74652 11 жыл бұрын

There is something very unnerving about this piece.

@SirHatchporch 9 жыл бұрын

I could have used a little more cowbell.

@BrushworkUK 12 жыл бұрын

@ deanwhitebread I was also at the Almeida that afternoon in the 1980s. He was also very patient in dealing with some of the sillier questions from the audience, including one along the lines of 'Why do write tonal melodies?'

@ibyron 13 жыл бұрын

Genius.

@exadboy 7 жыл бұрын

A.G. Cook brought me here (and I couldn't be happier!)

@Dangermoose-rv6bb 6 жыл бұрын

Tis quick..i'll give it that much

@thomasthetankengine9476 7 жыл бұрын

I was so happy when I realized why it's called canon X

@unloved5600 12 жыл бұрын

insanity piano.

@MrNotengointernet 2 ай бұрын

Armonía de la disonancia

@robertcornhole5197 7 жыл бұрын

The original Black MIDI !

@RichardsPimentell 7 жыл бұрын

Howard Becker brought me here!!! hahah Nice style!

@sanqiangli6425 7 жыл бұрын

Somehow, I'm reminded of 70s horror movies.

@davidmehnert6206 6 жыл бұрын

This is like reading Ezra Pound for pleasure.

@pleasegive1000dollar 13 жыл бұрын

thanks for the great tutorial, I learned it in 20 minutes!

@manuellayburr382 3 ай бұрын

If aliens with no concept of music found this machine, they would assume it was a communication device and try to decode the message.

@_grahamjacobson 3 жыл бұрын

Music starts at 0:34

@skelltenfredrick5183 2 жыл бұрын

Lowkey my eyes are starting to shake I went kinda discombobulated for a second

@hakeemahmadjamal7403 2 жыл бұрын

Haha the fact I’m getting a simply piano ad on this

@zhiracs Жыл бұрын

X Æ A-12 giving his 5th grade report on life in the 18th century

@theflev-matic4892 4 жыл бұрын

I want a midi of this

@rr7firefly Жыл бұрын

It's usually at around 3:20 that I realize I've been moving too slowly in my life. Gotta get cooking or it'll pass my by.

@frankie3131 4 жыл бұрын

At around the 2 minute mark it really starts to sound like someone running/escaping and their pursuer following after them. It’s all I could hear for a solid minute

@----ian 4 жыл бұрын

It's really cool you said that, I felt the same thing.:}

@elektrolyte 4 жыл бұрын

darude

@stochasticactus 5 жыл бұрын

a true canon. In music, a canon is a contrapuntal (counterpoint-based) compositional technique that employs a melody with one or more imitations of the melody played after a given duration (e.g., quarter rest, one measure, etc.). The initial melody is called the leader (or dux), while the imitative melody, which is played in a different voice, is called the follower (or comes). The follower must imitate the leader, either as an exact replication of its rhythms and intervals or some transformation thereof (wiki)