This version of the song is incredible. It has such a strange vibe... mesmerizing, calming yet eerie all at once. This feels like what would start playing in a dark, wet cave that you went to explore illegally. You try to find the source of the noise, and as you get to the seemingly empty space it seems to emanate from, it suddenly disappears, leaving you alone in the dark. You rush to the exit. You never go back there again. You ask around but there never are no other reports of this happening. You think about it every night, in terror, yes, but in longing too.
Inspiring. Imagine if you were able to travel back in time to 1801, just after Beethoven finished composing Moonlight Sonata and tell him that someday this sonata would be played by the Earth itself... He would call you a lunatic! (And don't try to be cute and reply that wouldn't say anything because he wouldn't hear you...haha! Beethoven still had 40% of his hearing in 1801, it wasn't until 1816 that he was completely deaf!)
This is truly amazing, I can’t believe someone was able to take it upon themselves to make not only the worlds biggest musical instrument but also to make it from something right from the earth
I've heard it in person several times and it does not sound this good. Yes the drips were added by sampling. There's only 37 stalactites wired so I'm assuming that sampling was necessary to create these comps. From the Wikipedia web site: "While earlier gift shop recordings were created live during a performance of the organ, Monte Maxwell's recording was produced via sampling; the tracks on this release are the result of using a synthesizer to create each song from the original samples. Some details about this process are available in the booklet which accompanies the CD."
I have a copy of this entire CD... as well as the 'earlier gift shop recordings' of the actual organ, including a 45 rpm with a cool introduction by a guy named John Bacheldor.
This is great. I went to the Cave here I got the tape of this and played it, It is so special to hear this and to hear this song from the Cave. Thanks.
There's only one. It's powerful yet soothing. Its presence is a very magical experience. If a pipe organ is the king of musical instruments, then the Great Stalacpipe Organ is the God of musical instruments.
I’ve heard this song many times on piano, but I haven’t ever heard it played on stelagpipes before. Gives it more of a blissful sound than the original version ever did. Try doing some gospel songs like the old hymns you normally hear in a church. THAT would be so pretty sounding I’d probably just cry.
@thetoxicsoul It's very pure and...haunting. That's about the only way I can describe it. Check it out at some point before you die, it's definitely a sight to see.
This original work deserves archiving at archive.org Tried to buy the cd or mp3/flac album yesterday, nowhere to be found or generally available besides these gems on TH-cam. Perhaps the original copyright holder might consider to release the material for digital preservation purposes? (Please forward the suggestion to the right audience)
I am a native american, I reside in Nothern Virginia, My ancestors come from Luray Virginia, Many still reside in the area, a few on the property of the caverns themselves. We are the forgotten people, the overseers, of this magnificent cave. We are rarely mentioned, we are completely excluded from the caverns history as it was " Discovered" by Caucasians. We have stories of what the caverns were to our people before they were confiscated. Feel free to ask me any questions about this wonderful phenomena - I would like to personally thank the creator of this video for this composition and bringing the caverns music to the general population.
I think this has nothing to do with Aztecs, and that the belief that some righteous deity is smiting whole cultures for putported violent acts (non of which have you substsntiated)is completely insane. You're either a troll or truly stupid enough to believe your own flow of crap.
I'm sitting here, with a sore, congested throat and pounding headache. And this is so soothing! I believe it's appropriate to sit here with my ceramic tankard with a litte dragon, full of tea and relax to these soothing tones.
The legend about the noise is that there is an evil creature that lives in the caverns that makes clicking sounds because it doesn't like the music. But in reality, its just the sound of a hammer that moves but has no stalactite to hit against.
I was born from Mother Earth and this sends me in a Lullaby. That Beautiful instrument is even more radiant if the lights are out at Midnight. Awareness without worry bring me back to ground no intention but LIFE,
Computer junkie00, thank you for your silent work selflessly. I just got the Maxwell CD from yesterday trip. Want to upload but don't know which presentation is missing, can you help? just type the songs you uploaded (17 songs altogether)Thx-CN
Can any sound made by The Great Stalacpipe Organ be recreated using a software synthesizer like Matt Tytel 'sVital and Xfer Serum? It doesn't have to mimic the water droplet sounds.
I thought I would never utter these words to the song "Moonlight Sonata" that I love playing on a pipe organ or a piano....This rendition of Moonlight Sonata was creepy and a wee bit scary for me. What did it was the loud high pitch of the water dripping off the stalactites at random times and hitting the water below them. Great idea for doing this. Bravo! Bravo!
"Are you a musician?"
"Yes."
"Oh, what do you play?"
"The cavern."
A bit different than the cavern the Beatles played at
Hey, a rock concert ...
internationalicon *stalagmite concert
*Hahaha, I don’t get it.*
I mean if you’re just gonna say it
tour guide made this joke
Lol
If I heard this in a cave where this doesnt take place I would be out of there like hell
i'd stay there so long i'd die of thirst. this music is beautiful
Not me..
Id stick around
Ha. It took me while to find a recorded cavern music with no interview
Seriously. TH-cam's search function is so freaking bad.
@@Psythiki think it’s more that oddly, i don’t think they play and record it often…. Which makes no sense why you wouldn’t
@@AhHereWeGo Yeah but also TH-cam's search is bad.
Hauntingly beautiful.
Moonlight sonata in a cavern
This version of the song is incredible. It has such a strange vibe... mesmerizing, calming yet eerie all at once. This feels like what would start playing in a dark, wet cave that you went to explore illegally. You try to find the source of the noise, and as you get to the seemingly empty space it seems to emanate from, it suddenly disappears, leaving you alone in the dark. You rush to the exit. You never go back there again. You ask around but there never are no other reports of this happening. You think about it every night, in terror, yes, but in longing too.
Yo, wow!
It’s haunting and beautiful to know it’s possible to make an instrument out of our own earth, it has a tune like no other
Technically, all instruments are made from the earth.
@@pwnsyou82i mean you’re not wrong
why is it haunting please explain
@@MrZootSuitz it’s haunting in the ambience it creates
@@ambush_akula5261
I̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ just kidding you are basic
Inspiring. Imagine if you were able to travel back in time to 1801, just after Beethoven finished composing Moonlight Sonata and tell him that someday this sonata would be played by the Earth itself... He would call you a lunatic! (And don't try to be cute and reply that wouldn't say anything because he wouldn't hear you...haha! Beethoven still had 40% of his hearing in 1801, it wasn't until 1816 that he was completely deaf!)
Yup
He wouldn't even hear me! I would only whisper whenever I'd be around him, therefore rendering any of those events completely useless.
@@featheryfemme one word: paper
@@justabrony2213 That would be writing, not speaking.
@@featheryfemme eh, you got the idea tho
it wouldn’t be the same without the occasional drip. what a legendary piece, made only more beautiful by the fact it is in nature.
I just wish they didn't blast my eardrums with every drip.
it is something not of this world, but at the same time it is. this is quite a miracle to this earth.
Wow! That's beautiful. I'de love to hear the third movement on that thing.
Lol clair de lune would be nice too... a lot of pieces would be amazing to hear
It'd probably cause an earthquake.
@@featheryfemme lol
@@manuelbes lol
@@xiiaohao3871 imagine someone playing Liszt or Rachmaninoff on this thing !
wow, the ultimate Earth instrument
@Isaac Hladky uh, that was clearly a compliment
Finally found a video of the organ playing without someone talking and they mic the water drops and not the music
This is my first time hearing it and the fake drops falling at "random times" current ruins it for me.
Why?! Just, why?!?!
The instrument covers about 3 acres. There's no method of recording it without some of the drops being louder.
This is truly amazing, I can’t believe someone was able to take it upon themselves to make not only the worlds biggest musical instrument but also to make it from something right from the earth
The amount of work that was put into this must have been nuts.
To find stalactites that have the pitch needed.
they cut it until they finds desired tone
It took 4 years to shave down the stalactites, and hundreds of thousands of years for nature to form the stalactites themselves.
So beautiful, especially with the water dripping in the background, which I think is a great ambient sound.
Imagine you are in a dark cave all by yourself not knowing you are in that music cave thing and this starts playing.
Playing in a place that has never seen the moonlight!
I've heard it in person several times and it does not sound this good. Yes the drips were added by sampling. There's only 37 stalactites wired so I'm assuming that sampling was necessary to create these comps. From the Wikipedia web site:
"While earlier gift shop recordings were created live during a performance of the organ, Monte Maxwell's recording was produced via sampling; the tracks on this release are the result of using a synthesizer to create each song from the original samples. Some details about this process are available in the booklet which accompanies the CD."
37 notes are more than enough to play this song
I have a copy of this entire CD... as well as the 'earlier gift shop recordings' of the actual organ, including a 45 rpm with a cool introduction by a guy named John Bacheldor.
Bernie Marinakis I bet you’re great at parties, thanks for the info tho sincerely good to know
I bet standing inside is still incredible. It's in surround
@@Titan52berg ok
The music that plays on that really hard water level you hate.
This is great. I went to the Cave here I got the tape of this and played it, It is so special to hear this and to hear this song from the Cave. Thanks.
Yeah, this has to be the most beautiful and haunting version of this beautiful song I have ever heard.
What an appropriate setting and instrument for this song! It makes you feel the slow, painstaking passage of time that created the cavern itself.
Even more haunting in this tone...amazing
There's only one.
It's powerful yet soothing.
Its presence is a very magical experience.
If a pipe organ is the king of musical instruments, then the Great Stalacpipe Organ is the God of musical instruments.
It sounds completely magical. It's beautiful
This makes me feel like if I stepped in the cave and listened to this I would leave to find the world outside has aged 300,000 years...
this is very cool, looks like something straight out of an RPG
Pissed.. I went there yesterday and they didn’t have it playing. We just stood there staring at it...
I want to be in that cave next to the person playing, close my eyes and just enjoy the moment.
Unbelievable. I would fall to absolute prices in the presence of this creation. What an amazing feat of ingenuity and passion.
I'm pretty sure I heard these sounds in my dream last night..
Magical, restful, soothing I had never heard of this Thank you
so beautiful makes me want to cry
Learned about this through a passage in my ACT test yesterday
I was very intrigued
Easily one of the most haunting instruments I've ever heard. Absolutely adore this thing, really hope I get a chance to see it in person someday.
I did!
It’s very small, but I never heard it play.
What a nice warm sound ❤
I’ve heard this song many times on piano, but I haven’t ever heard it played on stelagpipes before. Gives it more of a blissful sound than the original version ever did. Try doing some gospel songs like the old hymns you normally hear in a church. THAT would be so pretty sounding I’d probably just cry.
Wow… I'm really amazed of this relaxing sound! 🤩
Minecraft cave sounds portrayed in reality:
The drops are noisy, but a golden music over all
L'univers souterrain liée au sous marin, l'orgue des cathédrales !!! Grandiose !!!
FANTASTIC!!!
My god this sounds beautiful
"What instrument do you play?"
*the cave*
Yo, I saw this thing in person, it was absolutely beautiful.
Man, that bass is something else
@thetoxicsoul
It's very pure and...haunting. That's about the only way I can describe it. Check it out at some point before you die, it's definitely a sight to see.
Yes.
This is REAL rock music
natural accompaniment too, wonderful
This song is my favorite!
This original work deserves archiving at archive.org Tried to buy the cd or mp3/flac album yesterday, nowhere to be found or generally available besides these gems on TH-cam. Perhaps the original copyright holder might consider to release the material for digital preservation purposes? (Please forward the suggestion to the right audience)
here from tumblr...this is amazing
癒される
@sasukeinferno4 Its in a cave. That's the sound of the same water that creates all the stalactites and stalagmites to begin with.
Very aquatic, reminds me of 20,000 leagues under the sea.
I am a native american, I reside in Nothern Virginia, My ancestors come from Luray Virginia, Many still reside in the area, a few on the property of the caverns themselves. We are the forgotten people, the overseers, of this magnificent cave. We are rarely mentioned, we are completely excluded from the caverns history as it was " Discovered" by Caucasians. We have stories of what the caverns were to our people before they were confiscated. Feel free to ask me any questions about this wonderful phenomena - I would like to personally thank the creator of this video for this composition and bringing the caverns music to the general population.
Christiaan Baron wow. You're a total piece of shit.
I think this has nothing to do with Aztecs, and that the belief that some righteous deity is smiting whole cultures for putported violent acts (non of which have you substsntiated)is completely insane. You're either a troll or truly stupid enough to believe your own flow of crap.
Nikolas Sanow Don't argue with crazy people, it's like screaming at a brick wall.
A skeleton that is both spooky and scary it is so difficult to ignore anti-logic sometimes
***** should you not?
Just got to visit this about three hours ago, it was lovely to hear but sadly wasn’t recognizable at all as moonlight sonata :(
I wish that guy with the dripping nose in the front row near the microphone would move. It's dripped so much it sounds like there is a puddle
@yamahonkawazuki
Luray Caverns is in Virginia.
peaceful mesmerizing hypnotic ethereal haunting beautiful
SO BEAUTIFUL! Thank you
I want this to play at the end of the world
Moonlight sonata.... I missed the non stop narration..
i cried
I love living close by this place...
beautiful
Amazing!
teacher: what instrument do you play
Me: a cave
imagine playing clair de lune
**MAJESTIC SOUNDS INTENSIFY**
I'm sitting here, with a sore, congested throat and pounding headache. And this is so soothing! I believe it's appropriate to sit here with my ceramic tankard with a litte dragon, full of tea and relax to these soothing tones.
Every time I hear "Moonlight Sonata" I think of Resident Evil 1.
Every time i hear moonlight sonata i think of moonlight sonata
I wish I could play on this organ. Or at least go hear it in person.
I wonder, do they sell this synthesizer anywhere? Everyone should be able to make music with the sounds of the cave
The legend about the noise is that there is an evil creature that lives in the caverns that makes clicking sounds because it doesn't like the music. But in reality, its just the sound of a hammer that moves but has no stalactite to hit against.
Enchanting
Spotify when?
we finally found real life's cave OST
I wanna hear the third movement on this bad boy
This sound exactly like something I could image playing in the first Alone In The Dark game back in in the days.
I was born from Mother Earth and this sends me in a Lullaby. That Beautiful instrument is even more radiant if the lights are out at Midnight. Awareness without worry bring me back to ground no intention but LIFE,
With my current mental state and this music playing by, I'm gonna go crazy... Soon... Very soon... I almost can see myself loosing it
2 years later, I hope you are okay.
@@AUS5555 fortunately yes... thank you so much for asking ❤
@@shaswatichakraborty1006 All the best, I hope you've managed to find solace and peace of mind over time ❤
Someone needs to play "Diggy Diggy Hole" on this.
I AM A DWARF AND IM DIGGING A HOLE
Amazing! looking for a recording I can buy of this
Haunting
I have this same complete CD.
Earthworm Jim is now a blind cave salamander.
Its weird how the droplets sound almost in tune with the music some actually fit in with the chords.
This is the piece beethoven wrote when he realized he was going deaf. It isn't about the Moon.
Someone needs to play toccata and fugue
Computer junkie00, thank you for your silent work selflessly. I just got the Maxwell CD from yesterday trip. Want to upload but don't know which presentation is missing, can you help? just type the songs you uploaded (17 songs altogether)Thx-CN
www.linkedin.com/nhome/updates?topic=5874949339306037248
Talk about Acoustics!!!
Meraviglioso
Imagine playing the theme of interstellar in the cave
Can any sound made by The Great Stalacpipe Organ be recreated using a software synthesizer like Matt Tytel 'sVital and Xfer Serum? It doesn't have to mimic the water droplet sounds.
Dope.
I thought I would never utter these words to the song "Moonlight Sonata" that I love playing on a pipe organ or a piano....This rendition of Moonlight Sonata was creepy and a wee bit scary for me. What did it was the loud high pitch of the water dripping off the stalactites at random times and hitting the water below them. Great idea for doing this. Bravo! Bravo!
Xpresstv ?
Siii
Sip
Si Xd, pero esque tio, los instrumentos eran la ostia.
Данила мастер и хозяйка медной горы 😉
What is up with the background noises?
You mean the clicking/ dripping noises?
Thats the actual instrument not the speakers that make the organ sounds.
So this is where all the cave sounds in minecraft come from
if Bruce Wayne decided to be a musician instead of a crime fighter