This is incredible. It's beaufiful. There's so much more to say about it, that's already been said in words now deleted by evil overlords. It's magical. I remember that it seemingly superpowered my ability_at and energy_for_doing math. I remember that sexim alive made me nostalgic. Perhaps it made me tear up? When I left my comments, not many others had said this, but now, deservedly more have: You're really, really, really talented. I can't wait for Your next project
@lucillablessing6 ай бұрын
You're really, really, really cool. I can't wait for Your next comment. Stay awesome, Miss G.
@HBMmaster8 ай бұрын
great soundtrack :)
@Fishiest8 ай бұрын
oh my god is that THE jan Misali- also known as THE person who inspired me to learn toki pona?! sina pona mute a! sina ala la, mi toki ike. toki pona mi li jo e ike lili, taso, mi wile jo e pona ale :3
@redstowen7 ай бұрын
ok
@jonsparks34307 ай бұрын
😮
@jan_Eten2 ай бұрын
toki o, jan Misali!
@qubix276 ай бұрын
The video convinced me that binary is the best way to count The OST convinced me that 29 is the jazziest number These tracks are hands down the best math sonifications/math-inspired music I ever heard. Binary being natural for music, and usage of harmonic series istead of arbitrary 12TET notes makes this so beautiful. And there is so much thought put into harmonization. And there are so many tiny details hidden everywhere... I love it❤
@chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee8 ай бұрын
the first song really sounds like something from an astronomy documentary. so soothing and wonder-full! and the entire soundtrack is amazing too. id absolutely pay for it if an option was offered.
@chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee8 ай бұрын
oh i missed the bandcamp link in the original video. Whoops
@minewarz6 ай бұрын
I love this type of music Showing the underlying mathematical structure, but still allowing enough freedom for the creator to be creative with it. It's very well balanced and makes for some great music to listen to, both structured and exotic I especially like magic sequences :D
@paper22228 ай бұрын
also like how did you make such an emotional song out of just counting in binary 😭/pos
@jan_Eten2 ай бұрын
i know '/pos' is positive, but it just looks like '/piece of shit' =L
@WhaleOfGrayАй бұрын
kinda sounds like minecraft, cuz its sooo heavenly
@4thalt5 ай бұрын
I love how there's an entire original soundtrack for a single youtube video
@alfredguarino126 ай бұрын
binary:natural, just relax decimal:come on lets dance and live in the moment! bach binary:its okay just look at yourself divide and conquer: you're probably confused byteplex:some marching music that you want to tap along dance of the symbols:everything's going great just look at your achievements magic:you really want to dance sexim alive:life is passing by and it's going so well you've gone so far you can or could take a break you know
@codeway43748 ай бұрын
The best ost production use in a ytb video i thing
@hzrnvm8 ай бұрын
The music seems to have some kind of power that it makes it easier for me to process and think about numbers while im listening to it. i was thinking about (balanced) ternary earlier today while not listening to it and then I was thinking about it just now while listening to it and I noticed a serious difference. incredible..
@hzrnvm8 ай бұрын
holy shit I just realized i have calc studying to do. this fact can be combined with the previous one.
@hzrnvm8 ай бұрын
i think i'm in an especially prone state but wow that last one "sexim alive" really got me. it really got me. it, god damn.
@CakeCh.7 ай бұрын
14:37 There might be a reference to "Still Alive" from Portal. I love it.
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
there indeed is! originally, this song was a remix of Still Alive combined with the melody of "seximal fractions". sadly, KZfaq's copyright algorithm got upset about it, so I had to rewrite the song. you can still hear the original in the trailer though :)
@VectorJW92607 ай бұрын
will you release the original sexim alive separately? @@lucillablessing
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
@@VectorJW9260 it's included on Bandcamp as a bonus track!
@Trashley6522 ай бұрын
NOOOOOOO THE BINARY COUNTER DIDN'T FINISH NOOOOOO 😭 That was beautiful though
@moozcode6882Ай бұрын
Didn't thought numbers have so much emotion. =)keep up the great work.
@ImKiliz7 ай бұрын
i've just watch "the BEST way to count" and by the end i felt that some how i've scratched something primordial about all existence, such wonderfull meaning a project that starts from a math perspective that many times is overlooked as a subject stripped from emotional. I'm really amazed by the quality of the video, and i apreciate how much work it probably took, it seems that it was a real journey, you should be proud. english is not my first language, but just as the positional systems r depicting the abstract concept of numbers, language is depicting the abstract concept of (?), what i'm try to comunicate is that i see u and your efort, what you have created it's an art that resoanated in my soul, and as a person i belive that it's one of the most rewading feelings that what you created could impact someone's lives like that.
@atch4764Ай бұрын
dance of the symbols ends too early, i wish there were more
@gtoast20532 ай бұрын
god this is incredible. i cant get over how good and creative all of these tracks are, and the fact that they were made for a nerdy youtube video essay makes it even more ridiculous. my favorite is decimal music i think, although the magic sequences one is a jam, wonderful use of microtones there. and i agree with the commenter who said divide and conquer reminded them of Arvo Pärt. beautiful stuff all around
@lucillablessing2 ай бұрын
that's because it is inspired by Pärt!!
@user-vn1yw1ow4f2 ай бұрын
Maybe it's a too loose connection, but to me "Dance of the symbols" sounds similarly to Bartok's "Bagpipes music" from Mikrokosmos volume 5
@lucillablessingАй бұрын
@@user-vn1yw1ow4f I *knew* it was like some Bartók piece
@pietersfilms51712 ай бұрын
When da math vid is so 🔥🔥🔥🔥 it has an ost
@ItssTasha10105 ай бұрын
How on Earth did the binary counter one give me huge gender euphoria, my brain is bizarre sometimes. :3 Also I now love base-2 arithmetic so much its unreal, thank you for supplying that already excellent video with this beautiful OST.
@light_cone5015 ай бұрын
Gender euphoria is so weird! Glad you found some, maybe this is why I love this music 🧐 you are valid :3
@jackys_handle5 ай бұрын
"my brain is bizarre sometimes. :3" Is this your first time being human or smtn?
@light_cone5014 ай бұрын
What? Just because everyone is somewhat bizarre due to being human doesn't mean you can't say you're experiencing something bizarre? Literally part of language is talking about being bizarre to understand human experience, why are you responding like they should have not mentioned it?? Edit: misspelt being
@jackys_handle4 ай бұрын
@@light_cone501 sorry it came across that way, I just thought it was a funny thing to mention
@leggyjorington39608 ай бұрын
This is actually really good 👍
@kiratross7 ай бұрын
Beautiful, simply beautiful 🥹
@chindianajones37428 ай бұрын
Byteplex so flippin cool! The polyrhythms!!!!
@Sonsydemec8 ай бұрын
Reminiscient of The Social Network OST at times, really cool!
@Polonium2097 ай бұрын
Some of the songs of this soundtrack really bring some strange emotions, it reminds me of "katawa shoujo" ost and just brings back old feelings. This is great.
@Fire_Axus7 ай бұрын
your feelings are irrational
@lucillablessing6 ай бұрын
@@Fire_Axus I can't tell if that's a math pun or serious
@Polonium2096 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing i can't either but now that you said that i find it so funny lmao
@hezzr35 ай бұрын
wasnt sure what vibes i was getting the clicked with me until i saw this comment - the katawa shoujo OST is my life and this really feels like a mathematically themed extension of it
@A2music8 ай бұрын
loved the video, and this soundtrack. Amazing job!
@toimine89307 ай бұрын
I did not expect the algorithm to recommend a video with microtonal OST in it, nice
@Fire_Axus7 ай бұрын
real
@jackys_handle5 ай бұрын
log_2(5) octaves is quite the tone.
@mr.duckie._.2 ай бұрын
harmonic series go brrrrrrrrr
@FortuneEight__3 ай бұрын
love how you combine |… bit and piano/strings. its not just important to have good points in a video but banging music as well.
@binathiessen49203 ай бұрын
Magic sequence 29 goes hard.
@jackys_handle5 ай бұрын
5/4 is tricky, well executed!
@Miranda-yc7ll8 ай бұрын
I love this music ^^ I really felt it was wonderfully integrated into the video and wondered if I could find it and even noticed how perfectly it fit at the (for me) climactic counting upwards (byteplex) just the vibe and for the first time while watching I wondered whether it was created for that purpose (somewhat) or just the animation speed adjusted or similar thoughts (a whole tangent xD). I noticed earlier that the vibe just fit like how it sounded so clean and binary and logical just like the ideas presented, idk. I was very happy when I discovered it was also created by you and I could listen to it in isolation. Keep up the good work (no pressure ^^)
@sliceofardath1526 ай бұрын
Lovely music for a lovely video!
@Fishiest7 ай бұрын
incredible OST! i watched the video when it first came out- and i wanted to comment on this video, but i didn't because i didn't know what to say (i forgor) but yeah- incredible work! is there a way i could listen to all of these in a playlist instead of in one video?
@Fire_Axus7 ай бұрын
the jazzy tracks (decimal, magic and sexim) are the best
@Jake288 ай бұрын
really nice work here! i wish some of the chapter jingles could have made it in, but i get why you might avoid putting in too many super short songs like that
@NaviaryMusic7 ай бұрын
20 minutes into "the best way to count" video and I got sidetracked and have now spent more time listening to this music than I have spent over there 🤣There's something so appealing about this! Side question, I'd love to know what program/editor you used to create these little animations?
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
I put together some quick Lua code, you can peek at it here: github.com/lucitone/binary-animations
@NaviaryMusic7 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing Awesome! Thanks!
@galactika7 ай бұрын
aaah i love this sm it scratches my brain in so many ways simultaneously..
@andytruong475711 күн бұрын
9:22 polyrhythmic music by counting
@Wumbo578 ай бұрын
Really cool to see this coming from a talented friend rather than a royalty free site lol
@jakeylake72 ай бұрын
if there could be separate videos for each ost that would be amazing.
@light_cone5017 ай бұрын
Omg I love this music sooo much, I've been listening to it everytime I go in the shower and it makes me so happy and my mind so clear, truly beautiful what you have done with binary counting, and in the binary video itself it somehow makes it clearer and gets my brain into binary thinking mode. Just, incredible! I hope this video gets all the attention is deserves ❤
@krokorok_7 ай бұрын
this is incredible you are so talented
@user-vn1yw1ow4f7 ай бұрын
Tintinnambuli in "Divide and conquer" are very noticeable, it feels like an electronic arrangemenr of "Fratres"
@Fire_Axus7 ай бұрын
your feelings are irrational
@thezipcreator8 ай бұрын
is this in 12edo? it sounds pretty xenharmonic in some bits but maybe that's just me not hearing it right
@lucillablessing8 ай бұрын
some tracks are in 12edo, others in JI :)
@YourAverageLink7 ай бұрын
Each number in the magic sequence track is accompanied by its respective harmonic in JI above C. It's quite nice.
@zaglerelkaz8 ай бұрын
what's with the question marks in „sexim alive“?
@lucillablessing8 ай бұрын
nothing too much to it, it's just notes that don't fit the seximal expansion that you'd expect. obviously every sequence of seximal digits corresponds to some number, but if you were to translate these particular sequences with question marks back, you'd get much more complex numbers than for the majority of the song.
@TheAdhdGaming7 ай бұрын
2:38 i saw that.
@poorlydrawncactus11788 ай бұрын
3:05 247
@meta047 ай бұрын
2:37 venus
@mustafaahmad53827 ай бұрын
also!! AWESOME, YOU ARE SO TALENTED, BROTHER!!!
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
thanks a lot for the kind words, sister!
@swivelsaysno6 ай бұрын
absolutely LOVE decimal music. thank you for making art!
@paper22228 ай бұрын
4:17 WYSI
@isobarkley9 күн бұрын
gorgeous :)
@haoran.7 ай бұрын
Really cool music it feels like as if someone has put a rush of knowlege into my mind! Seriusly great work! How did you animatet it with the beats?
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
I wrote some quick and dirty Lua code, you can check it out among the links in the description of the video essay :)
@haoran.7 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@haoran.7 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing there are non in the description
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
@@haoran. github.com/lucitone/binary-animations
@haoran.7 ай бұрын
Thanks :D
@4thalt5 ай бұрын
Is it bad that my favorite song was decimal music
@jimtsio6879Ай бұрын
Hey, very nice sountrack! In magic sequences did you use integer multiples of a base frequency (aka harmonics)? Because it seems like it is jumping octaves between 1, 2, 4, 8 and so on.
@lucillablessingАй бұрын
I did, good catch!
@jimtsio6879Ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing Hey, I just uploaded a version of it using sine waves on my channel. 😀
@05degrees7 ай бұрын
So _that’s_ why there are combined binary sticks in your previous video!!! HUH [Edit: Oh wait you’re actually the mastermind behind that whole video huh??] Haven’t yet watched that binary video to the end.
@05degrees7 ай бұрын
I SO MUCH LIKE when math-inspired music is not of the form “here are decimal digits of phi which I layed out at white keys of the piano starting of course from C, so my melody has twice as much CDE as FGAB and it’s all unconditionally in 12edo”. Thank you for putting so much work and inspiration in these!
@aze43087 ай бұрын
amazing
@g-ray40882 ай бұрын
bpm for first song
@lucillablessing2 ай бұрын
88, I believe
@g-ray40882 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing I checked myself and it was like 175.99 ...oh yeah that's basically the same thing as what you said
@Trashley6522 ай бұрын
Are the numbers in sexim alive in any particular order? I would have liked to see the standard fractional representations along with them
@lucillablessing2 ай бұрын
They're (mostly) taken from the pool of the reciprocals of positive integers, like in Misali's "seximal fractions", but in an order that makes them match a Still Alive-like melody
@Trashley6522 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing Oooh I see, lovely! And what are the question marks?
@lucillablessing2 ай бұрын
@@Trashley652 mystery numbers :)
@Trashley6522 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing :0
@theayyoutube771112 күн бұрын
i would love to know the note order for 'magic secuences', its intrestingly microtonal
@lucillablessing9 күн бұрын
each note is a harmonic above the low C, corresponding to the number shown on screen at that time
@thebestnoob99584 ай бұрын
What are the bars on the divide and conquer supposed to mean? I know its about fractions or something judging by the name and the red bars but not on the specifics.
@lucillablessing4 ай бұрын
the lengths of those bars are proportional to the lengths in digits of the reciprocals of positive integers, written as recurring fractions in binary and seximal. red means they're the longest they can be in any base.
@thebestnoob99584 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing Thanks!
@fermata44256 ай бұрын
I like the parts at 3:27 and 3:42! They sound like something from Death Road to Canada
@practicemodebutton75592 ай бұрын
i need to hear bach decimal
@NF302 ай бұрын
Are you the same Lucilla who made those Marble Blast levels?
@lucillablessing2 ай бұрын
yeah :)
@NF302 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing That's cool! I liked 360 Degrees, it looks really good! I just wish it had gravity modifiers pointing opposite to your current gravity on the outsides, like what Battlecube Finale has. And the level with one-second powerups was really creative - if only the game's powerup timer actually worked properly and didn't always say that powerups last five seconds
@romeolz2 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing microtonality and marble blast why are you so based
@gabrieltellez81485 ай бұрын
can you post each one as their own video for playlist shuffle reasons
@obonyxiam4 ай бұрын
do you have sheet music or midi for the dance of the symbols?
@lucillablessing4 ай бұрын
I quickly brewed up a midi: drive.google.com/file/d/1QWAYdSWlfwJt4t8PRYATM9T91Y1NJGSv/view?usp=sharing
@obonyxiam4 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing thank you! if it's learnable (and i have the motivation) i might try recording myself playing it
@lucillablessing4 ай бұрын
@@obonyxiam hehe, it wasn't really designed with that in mind, but good luck :)
@jan_Eten2 ай бұрын
toki!
@obonyxiam2 ай бұрын
@@jan_Eten toki a!! i didn't end up recording the piece lol, i transcribed about half of it to sheet music though
@tecno_andre27522 ай бұрын
try to make binary counter but with the tone going down instead, i think it's so much cooler in that way
@mustafaahmad53827 ай бұрын
what is bach binary based on?
@zaglerelkaz7 ай бұрын
I believe it's a more complex version of a binary counter
@lucillablessing7 ай бұрын
it's essentially Bach's Prelude in C Major turned into a binary counter, with some bits thrown in from other classical pieces. the melody was a little improvised
@zaglerelkaz7 ай бұрын
that reminds me, i should listen to wtc@@lucillablessing
@obonyxiam4 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing is the ending from pdq bach's short-tempered clavier???? that's hilarious
@simonwillover41755 ай бұрын
Why ... why is the last bar inaudible?! Ugh!
@lucillablessing5 ай бұрын
of which song?
@simonwillover41755 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing The first one. Is the frequence set to 3000 Hz or something?
@lucillablessing5 ай бұрын
@@simonwillover4175 the song just stops matching the animation perfectly after a while. only the first 6 bits correspond to the harmonic series, and even that stops after some time, the song just does its own thing
@eboone3 ай бұрын
@@lucillablessing would've appreciated a lovely 7th harmonic