Elizabeth: this like *sings* Owen: *repeats the melody*
Elizabeth: Yeah, if you descend by like small intervals, a lot of composers have used that as sort of a *sigh* motif in sad music
Owen: mhm oh yeah
Daniel: BTS v...?
...Scenery? Umu: PFFFT
D: Taehyung? Umu: #musicianproblems
that's a v Fiona: Ohhhh (in music v represents the 5 chord)
Daniel: Yeah, I literally was like: 5!?! Fiona: I thought everything was 5
Daniel: That's like the most harmonically intense chord.
that's a way to sell yourself!
you're like, I'm the most intense >;)
Umu: Oh my god D: sorry
Umu: So now you're reacting to V, also known as Taehyung from BTS.
Scenery is a song that was written arranged and composed by V himself that he dropped kind of out of the blue in early 2019
Scenery describes the nostalgic experience of walking through multiple places longing for another
whether it be a person, place or emotion and
Contemplating the past in future
Henry: walking through different places and think- okay.
So here's what immediately what i'm thinking Cloud: wait he composed this himself?
Umu: Yes Cloud: That's very cool
Henry: Nostalgic piano
definitely gonna have some strings in there.
I expect different like literally different scenes,
but also I hope that reflects Cloud: Did you say like a forest?
Cloud: Did you say walking through
Different scenery or just
Henry: well, it's called Scenery
Umu: *enunciates intensely* Walking in multiple places.
Henry: exactly
Isaac: ~~~~SCENERYYYYYYY~~~
By ~~~~~V~~~~~ Kevin: 3 2 1 go
Fiona: We should cry
It sounds like we're outside. (D: yeah) there's the cowbell
Or a pan,
Daniel: I think that I think those are wind chimes not a cowbell,
Fiona: yeeehaw
Daniel: Okay, sorry, there's a piano intro Fiona: it's like a modern sounding reverb on an old-timey sounding piano
Kevin: All right walking bass sort of whole step half step diatonic
Owen: And it really gives that feeling of like
It's it's so much sadder because the bass descends too, in the piano...
(E:yeah) like a long line
You feel it falling down
even if it goes up and down but like the general mood
is if it was stock market falling into the abyss (omg)
Daniel: I love I mean I'm reading like the English translation, but right when it says the light reflected by the moon
it's you literally hear like something that's like up in a high register and it's just like
Twinkling, you know
Henry: Oh
Beautiful
Cloud: I like want it to go into a waltz Henry: It switched into triple. Yeah
Cloud: But it's not quite there Henry: it's like a Vietnamese waltz bum bummm
bum it kinda is
Cloud: It's like getting more into it but then it like pauses
Henry: but it's kind of that like old-school like that nostalgic dance thing
you know when someone winds up a music box and- Cloud: Hear that instrumentation change?
Henry: I do
I do it's thickening a bit... more birdflaps
Cloud: yeah it's getting a little bit more synthesized
Henry: No, that's not bird flaps. That's like that's the Camera one. Yeah, this is the shutter
Nick: is that a little camera flash...I think? Aron: the piano part reminds me of something
I like the piano part Nick: the piano part is gorgeous
(A: although) and the melody is so nice too
Aron: I feel like this is like
it's hard to go music theory like basic Sonata form because I feel like we just went to like
a V.
Kevin: Whoa the time got a little
Yeah, the time is it delays a little bit that's interesting oh
Isaac: *singing along*
Henry: Oh there's string- this there's the cello!!!!! Cloud: THERE'S THE STRINGS
henry: YES
Sorry
Big dominant- big dominant, big five here
It's a little louder. A bit more energy.
Elizabeth: This like *sings* Owen: *sings the same melody*
Elizabeth: Yeah, like like if you descend by like small intervals
Like a lot of composers have used that as sort of a sai motif in sai music
Owen: and because it's it's like da da
Da right? It's not ap- it's approaching that
Resolution (E: yeah) but it keeps almost getting there
And almost getting there and then still never reaching that yeah final resting place
Cloud: oooo
Nick: Oh
Nick: It's a pun with wonder and wander, isn't it?
Oh my god, I can read english!
Fiona: I think the meter makes it sound more optimistic. Daniel: Hmm
Isaac: bum
Kevin: the- oh it's not done. Isaac: I thought it was done pull a Schubert.
Kevin: Yeah, there's always there's always a final thought you know
Cloud: That's like the first like that's the lowest note that we've gotten so far
Elizabeth: awww
That was pretty Henry: it was really pretty yeah. Elizabeth: Yeah.
Owen: yeah Did you hear that overtone at the end?
(no) There's like I think it was a #11 overtone
Like there's a really tiny if you listen super closely to this really high pitch ring at the very end. It's like nyaaa
It's cool
Kevin: this song feels like a nice stroll through snowed in town in undertale
Because a lot of the higher piano ranges remind me of snowed in town from undertale
Isaac: du du dan bum bum
I would encourage you to look at waltzes because it's it's very pleasant watching them. Just one two, three, one two
I: Film the feet!!! K: aww, I can't
Kevin: No, no, we don't Isaac: yes. I'd be the male
So I take the left foot forward, bring the right foot forward, to the right to thw diagonal then so it's
It's one two three Kevin: Isaac! gotta be a better teacher.
Isaac: So you join your feet after and the thing is what's interesting is the bobbing of the body
And so you have one two three, so you bend your knees
and it's once you that
Move into your body and then
You put in some music because in music you kind of have that same feeling but not so much on a 3d
Plane of your body itself. Maybe you have it planned out in your head but having this just dip it's very
It kind of goes into the whole peaks and valleys
kind of
Emotional rollercoaster
Yeah, it's like we talked I think we talked about this
Acoustic piano, maybe you have in your house that you haven't touched in a while and it probably goes out of tune but it reverberates
quite
I guess quite loudly
having that kind of brings you back because a lot of people have pianos so having that nostalgia of just remembering your family and
then you have this breathy vocalist. IT was interesting was more breathy than usual
and having that just push out it seems very
light and delicate the musical decisions that were made were very
supporting of that
Nick: I thought it was really personal
And I think Aron: it sounded like that Nick: It's what he was going for
Aron: but I don't know-would you- do listen to sad music in your free time?
Nick: Oh, yeah
No, I need to cry this is like the type of stuff that I listen to
Aron: like when you listen to like Mahler six
It's like (that's a different breed) kind of sad
But it's like not sad because I'm so into it and maybe that's just I'm just not like a feelsy person
But I guess someone who felt in their feelings
All the time and emotions would really connect with someone or this song
So I think that that's where it's like a very effective
Fiona; it was nice
it was pretty (d: yeah) it's beautiful
Daniel: because yeah, as I said
it sounds like it's just he's just kind of giving this monologue like the music is just like
The channel for the words instead of like other way around, you know
because there's always like priority and like vocal music where you know,
Sometimes the text serves the music or the music serves the text and it seems like in this case the music serves the text
But it's like formatted in a way where there's so many like gaps where like he's doing like this vocal ease, you know
Like oh and then other times we're like, he's not even in the picture his voices and in the picture anymore
And I think those silences make it sound like musical scenery not he's not really being at the forefront right now
Yeah, it's a beautiful and intimate
Fiona: intimate mood
Daniel: Yeah, okay mood like yeah, it's a beautiful portrait
Cloud: I do like in songs when they like sample things from like the environment or whatever
like that was a big thing that took Henry: sounds
in general or like specifically nature
Cloud: specifically nature I think Henry: or human sounds?
Cloud: yeah, Henry: like the camera chick
Cloud: like when I started song it starts with like I've got a couple that start with like almost cafe background noise we hear
People talking like yeah, it's just clattering and then it goes into like a swing beat or whatever
I think that's very cool when people can do that and like where it sounds
really nice and fitting so having like camera shutter and Henry: especially within space
because when they popped up the music wasn't
Overbearing they they left enough silence for that to stand out and you notice and you're like, oh yeah pictures memories
nostalgia scenery... Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Cloud: my photo album! flippin' through Henry: ba buuu bababaaaaa
The the breathiness was I thought,
Idiomatic cuz he sings a lot in his falsetto, which is super charming. He did such a good so charming
Like little macaroons
But then he matched his macaroon Cloud: The Macaroons
Henry: he matched his lower register to with that breathiness so it didn't sound like it was shifting too much
of a
Let's say like an emotional tone. I thought it was a I thought it was a fine choice
Nick: It's so nice it's so beautiful. You've got that
Aron: We should talk like this into the mic
This is J💚SMR
Nick: It's so nice.... it's so beautiful Aron: EWWW Umu: StaHP