As a composer, even though for a long time I felt that kind of comments diminished the sense of my own "creative individuality", I grew to accept them when I realized why people do this: for most people, this is their way of trying to intellectually/emotionally connect to the music. It was an honest effort for them to get into what the composer is doing/feeling/expressing, to get more intimate with another person's creation through a personal point of reference. ... true, some people only do it to show their intellectual "prowess", but you can usually spot that a mile away and should just brush it off, don't let it bother you. :) I was guilty many times of BOTH of these and as soon as I realized that, I stopped judging so harshly. :)
I thought that was the beauty in music is that everyone can relate it to something different, different people see different similarities in the music they like to other pieces, that's what (to me) is cool about music
Like I've got a friend who is heavily into MMA and we both come together and discuss the similarities between MMA and Jazz and how they are both an improvisational art form, we even go as far as comparing the mechanics of both of these arts
This style strongly reminds me of many Japanese Vocaloid producers. Particularly a composer named Treow, he's in a group called ELECTROCUTICA. Very beautiful chord progressions. Thank you for sharing your music.
This is everything I wish my music were... The genre blends, the inspirations, the sonic a e s t h e t i c s. Are there any vids behind the process of either composing or producing this ep?
Foshizzley i second this. I want to know what the principle behind that bass thing he does in a part of the second song and the first one too, i think, that sounds a lot like what he does in the bass lessons intro bit
I'm certainly not Donald Rumsfeld's biggest fan, but his "known knowns" speech is one of the most intelligent things I've heard him say, and makes for a great sample. Cool job.
I have an extreme need for more stuff of this caliber, and hopefully something tapping into and unleashing the sounds of tonal marching basses. Tonal basses outside of strictly the marching realm is extremely underrated.
is that a sample from a slavoj zizek lecture in your furturistic-ass progressive jazz song? fuck, that's the nerdiest thing I've ever witnessed, and I love it. great job.
No, that is a sample of an interview with Donald Rumsfeld wherein he explains his theory of knowns and unknowns in the context of the Iraq war. Zizek went on to analyse this in a lecture, deconstructing what Rumsfeld meant, you may be referring to this as your point of reference but the actual samples used can be found here in the interview with Donald Rumsfeld: th-cam.com/video/GiPe1OiKQuk/w-d-xo.html
Wow have been watching your videos a few months now and just discovered your recorded work. I've been missing out. Very unique feelings out of these wonderful works of art
this is good in all the right ways. the sound design, aesthetic & writing come together beautifully. this is a cohesive work of art. you're really fuckin good at writing music. i came for the bass, i stay for the writing
theyre unknown edit: it is a known unknown whether or not there are unknown knowns prior to me making this edit, however, the fact that it is a known unknown whether or not there are unknown knowns was an unknown known to everyone but me. sorry for ruining it
It's actually been a known known for a while that unknown knowns exist. Slavoj Žižek, at his talk at Google in 2008 about his book, _Violence_ , discussed that in the popular quote, Rumsfeld leaves out the category of "unknown knowns". In fact this is, to Žižek, the most important category. It makes up the preconceptions and prejudices which he refers to as "ideology". It consists of those ideas that have been generated by our surroundings, ideas that we aren't even aware of. It's an interesting talk. I take issues with the book, but Žižek raises some interesting points, some of which are new.
I know you all wonder - who the f*** could dislike that masterpiece. Okay, that was me. Actually I have not enough words to describe my feel for this music. It's too perfect. So That dislike is how cat punches you if you over excite him.
thank you for explaining! My mind was falling into a crazy spiral trying to understand this one dislike, but with the cat explaing it becomes very clear to me. Thank you.
Then you probably shouldn’t try for a degree in physics. You definitely don’t know everything. As science brightens our minds, we learn new questions to ask, new ways of thinking that we didn’t know to try before. And that’s part of why science gives us exponential results, it gives us more questions to ask and solve as it progresses. We didn’t know anything about many things before, just like now, bud.
This is a long shot but any chance you would consider up loading some samples? The drum line - esque snare during leading into and during the build at 0:50 is/are exactly what Ive been searching for a project I am currently working on
This is great! I wish you would do some talking about ableton. You're obviously a really proficient producer. This video led me to sungazer which is also phenomenal. I'm not much on "progrock" (guitar bass drums notes notes notes repeat) but coupled with your daw-some skills...just talk about electronic music production sometime, ok? Alright.
For some unknown reason, listening to this has led me to observe that we actually live in a 2-D world. Yes, our legs or wheels live in a 3-D world, but this visual world of ours is just a projection of 3-space onto the 2-D retina (and "we" - being me - have a tendency to think of "3-D" in visual terms). We live in a very *interesting* 2-D world, of course, but, for instance, most people taking a glance, now, in the direction of the nearest bathroom, cloakroom, or toilet (according to one's lexical baggages) would see (at best) a door and some wall, and not the bathtub etc, because that is all in 3-space, which only our legs and wheels inhabit. The projection we see never includes the stuff "behind" walls, in actual 3-D space (oh, and any paranoid interpretation of my choice of room, here, is forbidden, because the only reason I chose the one known in the Australian outback as "the dunny" was because of the high likelihood of the door being closed.) We live in 2-D. If we lived in 3-D we would see through walls. (Talking visually, of course, and not proprioceptively - or whatever the most grandiloquent term I could use for "leg-space" might be). I mean, visually, of course. Our legs live in 3-D. (I'm not so sure our bums planted on chairs in front of monitors could truly be said to also live there?) So then what about sound? Is that not 1-D? Yes, we receive sound on a 2-D eardrum, but I don't think it transmits through to the mind in 2-D? And if I'm right, then how fascinating are one-dimensional things, really? They're mesmerizingly fascinating, aren't they? Our serial world is full of things like orchestras, neighbours shouting, pregnant silences, silences that have just given birth to the song of some little bird, and silences that have aborted - like the one that follows my sudden departure from here in just a few moments time, to go and cry myself to sleep as I hear that choir of snores zedding and zeeeeing at me all over again. I think there might be a way of calling music an N-dimensional something, though? A projection onto 1-D? And that back onto N-D? (Shut up Eccles! We made an exit up there, so you we are already meant to be buggered off and gone, not shuffling around here, still jabbering and gibbering to ourselves as we twitch).
What is the connection between 3d and seeing through walls? The third dimension is depth, which we do, in fact, perceive. Our retinas are also 3d objects. 2d objects do not exist
yes, sound is essentially 1D, even though it might be built of multiple 1D channels (like 5.1 or stereo sound). Our brain uses our ears to perceive frequencies and relationships between. Each ear could be considered a 1D perception, and the differences between both years are enough to make sound spatial. Our visual perception of the world is a similar thing, illusion of 3D performed by the brain. Combining two 2D perceptions (two eyes), and more information such as sound and movement (far things move slower)
I accidentally opened this in two tabs without realizing it and my head almost blew off
I love it when that happens. That's what I miss the most about my crappy old computer.
Literally doing that just because you mentioned it. Is this what a good trip feels like?
Yo this literally sounds like the time//motion//wine EP
whoa dude you're right
Nothin else quite scratches my brain like dis EP
I love how everyone is relating this song to another artist or piece of music that they are familiar with. That really pushes my square.
Really grinds my buttons too. "Yo dude this band has a flute, therefore they're exactly the same as jethro tull in every single way!"
nooneknows haha your comment really made my day. Thanks💪
As a composer, even though for a long time I felt that kind of comments diminished the sense of my own "creative individuality", I grew to accept them when I realized why people do this: for most people, this is their way of trying to intellectually/emotionally connect to the music. It was an honest effort for them to get into what the composer is doing/feeling/expressing, to get more intimate with another person's creation through a personal point of reference.
... true, some people only do it to show their intellectual "prowess", but you can usually spot that a mile away and should just brush it off, don't let it bother you. :)
I was guilty many times of BOTH of these and as soon as I realized that, I stopped judging so harshly. :)
I thought that was the beauty in music is that everyone can relate it to something different, different people see different similarities in the music they like to other pieces, that's what (to me) is cool about music
Like I've got a friend who is heavily into MMA and we both come together and discuss the similarities between MMA and Jazz and how they are both an improvisational art form, we even go as far as comparing the mechanics of both of these arts
I can't believe I'm just discovering this now after following Adam closely for years. Very excited!
I can't believe how amazing time//motion//wine is
Diggin the marching percussion. Really a creative idea and I'm honestly surprised it isn't used more often in electronic music.
droeloe kinda uses it i think
Death Grips
@@spitgorge2021 Hacker is so good
holy fricc I've never noticed that, defo gonna steal that
It samples the "cadence hot pepper cheese"
Where's the lick? it must be in there somewhere?
Jonathan Hyldgård Samsing 6:23 closest thing to the licc
@@joelmondejar4939 not even close
This is amazing! Adam has got his own personal sound and style; that's not something many artists have, only the greats.
The opening track is masterful...
This style strongly reminds me of many Japanese Vocaloid producers.
Particularly a composer named Treow, he's in a group called ELECTROCUTICA. Very beautiful chord progressions. Thank you for sharing your music.
i got into treow/electrocutica bc of this comment 👍 thanks dawg
This is everything I wish my music were... The genre blends, the inspirations, the sonic a e s t h e t i c s. Are there any vids behind the process of either composing or producing this ep?
step 1: spicy jazz chords
step 2: practice
Do a video explaining what you are doing in this
Foshizzley i second this. I want to know what the principle behind that bass thing he does in a part of the second song and the first one too, i think, that sounds a lot like what he does in the bass lessons intro bit
I asked him in a livestream once and he said "this is me playing around when I first got ableton" but yeah in depth wouldbe cool
he's fucking around with garage band and triplets. don't read too much into it it's pseudo jazz.
aah you dont get it, you'll get there
please explain to me what there is to get. it's horrendously dull.
I'm certainly not Donald Rumsfeld's biggest fan, but his "known knowns" speech is one of the most intelligent things I've heard him say, and makes for a great sample. Cool job.
This whole EP is just pure eargasm
A symphonic poem based on Slavoj Zizek? Nice!
sorry but what does it have to do with zizek ?
I have an extreme need for more stuff of this caliber, and hopefully something tapping into and unleashing the sounds of tonal marching basses. Tonal basses outside of strictly the marching realm is extremely underrated.
Definitely this is the best music for hacking.
lol wut
I'm in *jazz fusion ensues*
@@nickyelovich3872 Good background music for programming.
turns to camera: "We're in!"
is that a sample from a slavoj zizek lecture in your furturistic-ass progressive jazz song? fuck, that's the nerdiest thing I've ever witnessed, and I love it. great job.
No, that is a sample of an interview with Donald Rumsfeld wherein he explains his theory of knowns and unknowns in the context of the Iraq war. Zizek went on to analyse this in a lecture, deconstructing what Rumsfeld meant, you may be referring to this as your point of reference but the actual samples used can be found here in the interview with Donald Rumsfeld: th-cam.com/video/GiPe1OiKQuk/w-d-xo.html
Im addicted to this ep
The transition to the third song is sublime.
I still don't understand how a song can be soooooooo good!! this is simply divine
Okay but I either, need you to make more music, or point me in the direction I can find me more like this! Absolutely incredible really dude.
Track 3 made me have an acid flashback. Thanks for that.
This blew my fucking head off...I've never heard something like this before
I hear Frank Zappa in a LOT of your melody lines.
Totally around 2:19 & 2:38.
Based on your comment you also heard Thundercat’s album “Drunk” on youtubs
What Zappa albums would you recommend for someone that loves this EP?
@@hulloclayton6685 Try Lumpy Gravy and The Grand Wazoo. Also the Ensemble Ambrosius album where they play Zappa on replica Baroque instruments.
@@hulloclayton6685 jazz from hell
A little jazz from hell influence?
Wow have been watching your videos a few months now and just discovered your recorded work.
I've been missing out. Very unique feelings out of these wonderful works of art
i feel like the "bass" intro music is contained in here somewhere...
Quartal melody baby
This is awesome. Now I know where to go if I ever get bored of music.
The drums in the first track :F
this is good in all the right ways. the sound design, aesthetic & writing come together beautifully. this is a cohesive work of art.
you're really fuckin good at writing music. i came for the bass, i stay for the writing
This is incredible
I read the titles to 2-4 and started cracking up. great work!
Dear boy, you are out of your mind in all of the best ways.
Forgive my ignorance, but are you taking the titles from the Bush sec. of defenses speech prior to Operation Iraqi freedom?
wow i didnt know. now i know. thanks ; )
We dont know we dont knowww
Adam, I don't understand how you managed to make something that's both familiar and alien. I love it.
This is the new Pink Floyd. Not only are Adams videos amazing but his music is transformative
so what about unknown knowns?
theyre unknown
edit: it is a known unknown whether or not there are unknown knowns
prior to me making this edit, however, the fact that it is a known unknown whether or not there are unknown knowns was an unknown known to everyone but me. sorry for ruining it
its probably a known now though
+badman jones thanks, I'll have to let that sink in for a while
It's actually been a known known for a while that unknown knowns exist.
Slavoj Žižek, at his talk at Google in 2008 about his book, _Violence_ , discussed that in the popular quote, Rumsfeld leaves out the category of "unknown knowns". In fact this is, to Žižek, the most important category. It makes up the preconceptions and prejudices which he refers to as "ideology". It consists of those ideas that have been generated by our surroundings, ideas that we aren't even aware of.
It's an interesting talk. I take issues with the book, but Žižek raises some interesting points, some of which are new.
Gizes it must be said doe, that great amusement and beauty can be found in this meeting between two parts of youtube.
Holy FRICK those are some tasty tonez. Well done sir [insert applause here]
Lad. You have my complete admiration. Keep up the good work! :)
Musical Enlightenment! Bought this almost instantly!
The 4th part is really really cool man, such a good piece of music overall
Do you have the sheet music for the marching snare rhythm in first track? I can't seem to transcribe it correctly.
That was my favorite part
Love the Rumsfeld/Johari Window referencing
I live for this music !
Time... Motion... Boiii
I know you all wonder - who the f*** could dislike that masterpiece. Okay, that was me. Actually I have not enough words to describe my feel for this music. It's too perfect. So That dislike is how cat punches you if you over excite him.
thank you for explaining! My mind was falling into a crazy spiral trying to understand this one dislike, but with the cat explaing it becomes very clear to me. Thank you.
Top comment! I don't agree with the deslike but I love the explanation! :)
You sound like a dipshit
That's pretty good. I got a few chuckles from this. It even angered a couple of people which is great!
Hey Adam, have you considered composing something that incorporates electronica with jazz orchestra? I'm imagining it working.
Check out mass extinction event, it's a five movement piece that does this.
massextinctionevent.bandcamp.com
proto-sungazer here guys.
kinda.. sungazer volume one came out the same year
Sick Adam I didn't know you have an EP. It's sick.
Sounds like R Plus Seven in the beginning, with those vocal cuts
This is awesome, will share it around!
Saw that the Bluecoats are using Sungazer’s Threshold in their 2024 field show, and my mind *instantly* came back to here.
this is actually nice
known unknowns is so fucking sick, i just wish it was longer!
This is soooo goood.................
more of this
yes thank you
"woah, knowing what we know, knowing what we don't know, this is gonna change our world"
This is so so so good
love the marching snares.
bigs up bro 👍
I don't think there exist unknown unknowns. My unconscious is strongly resisting that idea.
Then you probably shouldn’t try for a degree in physics. You definitely don’t know everything. As science brightens our minds, we learn new questions to ask, new ways of thinking that we didn’t know to try before. And that’s part of why science gives us exponential results, it gives us more questions to ask and solve as it progresses. We didn’t know anything about many things before, just like now, bud.
The things you can do with sound are crazy
DAMNNNN SON
This is so guuuuud.
awesome ideas
Damn, how did I only found this now? it's so triggering
I imagine an over used dry erase board used for the writing of this song
Oh my god I need more
damn lol, boondocks reference with the tracklist... nice :)
The music sounds very philosophical, as an intuition to me
This is some Proto-Sungazer right here
Freakin Amazing man ...Did I hear some black midi in there?
..thank you mister Rumsfeld. 🎓🎵🖤...bassLove...Love of bass...and Sacred geometries..
Whoa, I just wrote a blog post about Donald Rumsfelds quote on "known knowns, known unknowns, an unknown unknows." weeeeeiiiiiirrrrrd!
Wow this is awesome.
metaphysical!!!!!
this stuff helps keep you awake when you study|
trust me, i know
This is so.
Fucking.
Awesome.
This is great dude!
so progressive
This is so fascinsting man
Nice tunes, love it!
Holy shit Mr. Neely :0
Awesome!
awesome :) gonna show this to my friends! Almost reminds me of FlyLo at some points
Grosse dinguerie !
Some ultra dank listening right there
Very inspiring piece of work
Very colorful
Mastahpiece
5/5
im a human
u sure?
no
In to this! Yes!
This is a long shot but any chance you would consider up loading some samples? The drum line - esque snare during leading into and during the build at 0:50 is/are exactly what Ive been searching for a project I am currently working on
this is great
would this be considered progressive dubstep?
whatever it is its fucking rad!
this is JAZZ
probably best defined as electro jazz
Progressive glitch hop
Digging this swarmcore
This is great! I wish you would do some talking about ableton. You're obviously a really proficient producer. This video led me to sungazer which is also phenomenal. I'm not much on "progrock" (guitar bass drums notes notes notes repeat) but coupled with your daw-some skills...just talk about electronic music production sometime, ok? Alright.
For some unknown reason, listening to this has led me to observe that we actually live in a 2-D world. Yes, our legs or wheels live in a 3-D world, but this visual world of ours is just a projection of 3-space onto the 2-D retina (and "we" - being me - have a tendency to think of "3-D" in visual terms).
We live in a very *interesting* 2-D world, of course, but, for instance, most people taking a glance, now, in the direction of the nearest bathroom, cloakroom, or toilet (according to one's lexical baggages) would see (at best) a door and some wall, and not the bathtub etc, because that is all in 3-space, which only our legs and wheels inhabit. The projection we see never includes the stuff "behind" walls, in actual 3-D space (oh, and any paranoid interpretation of my choice of room, here, is forbidden, because the only reason I chose the one known in the Australian outback as "the dunny" was because of the high likelihood of the door being closed.)
We live in 2-D. If we lived in 3-D we would see through walls. (Talking visually, of course, and not proprioceptively - or whatever the most grandiloquent term I could use for "leg-space" might be). I mean, visually, of course. Our legs live in 3-D. (I'm not so sure our bums planted on chairs in front of monitors could truly be said to also live there?)
So then what about sound? Is that not 1-D? Yes, we receive sound on a 2-D eardrum, but I don't think it transmits through to the mind in 2-D?
And if I'm right, then how fascinating are one-dimensional things, really? They're mesmerizingly fascinating, aren't they? Our serial world is full of things like orchestras, neighbours shouting, pregnant silences, silences that have just given birth to the song of some little bird, and silences that have aborted - like the one that follows my sudden departure from here in just a few moments time, to go and cry myself to sleep as I hear that choir of snores zedding and zeeeeing at me all over again.
I think there might be a way of calling music an N-dimensional something, though? A projection onto 1-D? And that back onto N-D? (Shut up Eccles! We made an exit up there, so you we are already meant to be buggered off and gone, not shuffling around here, still jabbering and gibbering to ourselves as we twitch).
ok
Needs some physics review but at least you’re trying to describe things
What is the connection between 3d and seeing through walls? The third dimension is depth, which we do, in fact, perceive. Our retinas are also 3d objects. 2d objects do not exist
I totally understand your point, you have open a door for me, thanks.
yes, sound is essentially 1D, even though it might be built of multiple 1D channels (like 5.1 or stereo sound). Our brain uses our ears to perceive frequencies and relationships between. Each ear could be considered a 1D perception, and the differences between both years are enough to make sound spatial.
Our visual perception of the world is a similar thing, illusion of 3D performed by the brain. Combining two 2D perceptions (two eyes), and more information such as sound and movement (far things move slower)
What the fuck. This is amazing
Thank you
But, Adam, what about the unknown knowns?
You never noticed them, they're unknown
The next album I presume, unknown release date.
Its in the description, look again... Until you find them
You wont
Is this on spotify? Pls i need this on spotify
i second this