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48nd
Game: SOUND VOLTEX II -infinite infection-
Title: crazy cinema story
Composer: Chroma
Nominator: @UF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRFB6TduVhE

you know, having just talked about how jazz fusion is "angular - except on organic instruments" in the previous writeup, listening to this straight after gets me thinking about how a lot of rhythm game tropes, anything even slightly fusion/artcore/etc adjacent: that's like...an experiment on "what if the actual timbres of the music reflected the composition style that jazz eventually developed". IT's like, a cyclical jump from among the most loose and organic expression of freedom to, FRANTIC GRID (and i mean this in a good way...this is perfect for the concept of what Rhythm Games even are!)

example: the piano noodling at :19-:30 or so; if this song was a "real jazz song" (or even just 'by watson') that stuff would actually feel loose and smooth. in this context it starts to feel more like MACHINE PROG instead, which is cool! New GenreRhythm game. I LOVE THE QUARTAL HARMONY TRANSPOSIGN iN the piano 0:42 - 0:53 THOSE Are those notes that i like when theyh happen

that's not to say this track doesn't also do its own merging of artificial and organic of course. the woodwind layers feel a lot more "world music" (chrono cross) and therefore work to fill this space with a lot more variety, though still have their own fakeness, but that adds to the charm(chrono cross from the 90s)

i dopn't know where constant 8th or constant 16th string lines came from as far as rhythm game trope; but i've always loved it, they make me think of this song which i love so much and tightly like a million amount (this is a harmonically pretty similar song too. lots of "quartal and quintal harmony" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartal_and_quintal_harmony (i should just link this page whenever people ask what kind of music i like)) type ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czAH6g3KuV8

another absolutely stupid comparison i can make...the strings at 1:43 (and similar parts to that), i can't help but instantly start getting this song in my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3i0C9xy9DU

please do not hurt me. . . i k now that comparison is very silly, but yeah magic school bus explores the human body ost has a lot of "jazz influence" but particularly takes quintal/quartal harmony stuff as its way of actualizing that...so maybe ESPECIALLY because of the whole thing i just talked about, the irony of a very 'organic' genre eventually evolving into 'math grid' genre, and consequentially evolving into music that is played on a computer midi file. it works! I like that! maybe i should commission chroma to do covers of magic school bus explores the human body music (and still watson for covers of gen 3 pokemon music of course)

anyways, i would probably never even naturally register this song as 'jazzy' if it weren't for just talking about fusion harmony in the previous topic, really this is RHYTHM GAME PROG or whatever. kinda artcore adjacent because o the fake piano. it doesn't have a bemani genre name that i can find so i can't use that but if i had to give it a name it would be ENERGETIC CONTEMPORARY

the random static at the very end immediately puts Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE; into my brain ha ha ha

ohright the time sig chart (this is directly ripping off the in-game barlines, which might not be the "correct" way to write it on traditional sheet music):
(0:00 - 0:13) 7 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 3/8
(0:13 - 0:28) 5 bars of 15/8
(0:28 - 0:42) 8 bars of 4/4
(0:42 - 0:53) 4 bars 7/4
(0:53 - 1:20) 16 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 1/4
(1:20 - 1:35) 8 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 15/8, 1 bar of 7/8*
(1:35 - 1:50) 9 bars of 4/4
(1:50 to the end)1 bar of 7/4, and then a long note, and then a loud noise

*=this "7/8" bar is an ambiguous hold and i don't have the energy to figure out if it's exactly timed like that to a metronom,e but also whoo cares on sheet music it'd probably not even be indicated the amount of space there WHO CARES it's just a game(this isn't vgm in odd time of the day please don't tell me to be a perfection object)

oh yeah this track reminds me of that one ichiro shimakura song from star soldier vanishing earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlE88InZ-ic&t=40s

that similarity is not that real...i just think of it because they both have a similar hi-hat part when they "calm down" (dont' calm down). At :40 in the star soldier vanishing earth boss, at :53 in crazy cinema story. i have to have thought of it like 9503 times so i can't not mention it even tho they are not actually that similar...