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13nd
Game: MUSECA 1+1/2
Title: Metamorphobia
Composer: winddrums
Nominator: @Prody_Parrot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YacY_GKYRRQ

0:00-0:15: 4/4 x7 + 2/4 + 4/4 x3
0:15-0:41: 4/4 x14 + 3/4 + 5/8 x3
0:41-0:48: 5/8 x8
0:48-1:00: 4/4 x8
1:00-1:05: (6/8 + 7/8) x2
1:05-1:17: 5/8 x5 + 4/4 x5
1:17-1:28: 6/8 x8 + 4/4
1:28-end: 4/4 x18

definitely the most "overtly complex sounding" rhythm game nominated for this topic, and that's long been a favorite category for me, so here this is up this high! another good example on how the numbers you type don't really do justice to explaining anything about how proggy something actually sounds. there's all sorts of rhythmic hiccups and erraticness here that sounds more like jagged barline placements, but really if you follow it it's just like syncopation within something more normal.

not too long ago i was reading a thing about lyle mays' (of pat metheny group) composition style, and tracks or parts of tracks he wrote--one of the most common factors was that the song would just be in 3/4 or 4/4, but that was just like a floaty container for the other stuff to jump around like a crazy sound voltex beam behind. because when it came to the /rhythms/ rather than the "container", they were far far more like a bunch of scrambled up lincoln logs. one example given is this bit at 6:09 here:
https://youtu.be/xSlCSUxLJyk?t=369

and i'd compare that a lot to how metamorphobia feels, like that tiny section of this (otherwise very calm) pmg song. it's kinda an illustration with that hi hat consistently going but little else following it

why is atonal piano so cool....and why is it even more cool when it is FAKE SOUNDING. i honestly wonder what even popularized that. i wanna say Tomosuke, but who knows...maybe they're all imitating some japanese pop musician

all this stuff said about how this sounds more odd time than it is. i deeply respect 1:05 for how in-your-face that ridiculous 5 5 5 5 5 555 5 is. i think FAST 5, is one of the most jumpy sounding things you can even do, because unlike slow 5, or like...any other timesig. it's too short for your mind to parse potential divisions, and unlike 2/3/4 which we're all used to as divisions, it's not normal, so it really is the most BOOM%^--30940-34 -[you are in the chaos machine now

i wonder what kinda stuff winddrums is even inspired by anyway. its easy to assume prog/fusion, but maybe he just likes 'weird classical music' or something LETS FIND OUT(research time )

wtf winddrums is very close to my age, only 4 DAYS YOUNGER than me. that is so crazy?! makes me think "what am i doing with my life" if someone who is almost exactly the same age as me has played the drums. anyways"He was exposed to rock, fusion, and jazz music from an early age" yeah ok, but WAIT; he performed with DIMENSION?!! man, these connections sometimes totally astound me. I'm so used to this complete separation of "vgm" and "non-vgm" That gets enforced upon you by those nay-sayers who think they are so cool because they listen to non-vgm like "dimension" and sat hat viodeo game music is not real music, but what if i told them....that those musicians were in mario cart......and bemani games!

this guy looks so much younger than me from his glamorous photos, even though he is only 4 days younger than me, maybe that's all it takes. but i feel like i am an old man now that there's a 3 at the start of how many years old i am and various other things that make me look so much older than him. oh well...appaerance is not as important as "life dreams" and he has been so inspiring, i am going to play the piano while listening to his crazy drums now.

i'm so glad that his music sounds like music that someone is a drummer would make, and i think it's very cute that his alias has the word "drums" in it and that he also plays the drums, i think that is so funny