I Used Liszt to Make “Synthwave” - the results were hilarious.
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- Опубліковано 28 жов 2022
- Using LISZT to make synth music!
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I'm not a Liszt scholar, but I don't think he'd hate this. I think he'd be fascinated by it. He was a supporter of his contemporaries and frequently funded their music, as well as arranged their music for piano to perform so they could get more renown. Idk how he'd feel about music today in general, but I think he would be happy people are still listening to his work and are still finding new ways to be inspired by it, no matter how different the outcome is. Great job as always. I love the track and how cheerful it is!
I mean, my man invented all genres
tbh almost any classical composer would probably rather be intrigued than angry if they were exposed to today's music.
this is so incompetent that any decent composer would hate this.
@@Whatismusic123 …that’s not proper criticism
@@aidanmallon9879 I'm not criticising, I'm hating.
It gives me "Liszt being transported into an anime world" kinda vibe, it's cute!
Thank you!
New isekai anime idea right there.
"The time that i met composer Franz Liszt in another world and created synthwave"
@@MXCN_El1011 I just had a sad premise for an anime: "Vincent Van Gogh actually came from another world but got stranded in ours, and all of his paintings were accurate representations of his alien home because he was literally a lone stranger."
More like an OST to an 8-bit Nintendo game. Could be anime-based ;)
yeah made me think of YMCK's music for some reason
Nahre is so fucking cool! Classically trained, but with no ego or purism or gatekeeping of any sort. Her approach of endless experimentation and humble curiosity about all types of music is truly an inspiration!
As a Synthwave producer who incorporates Classical elements, I found it really interesting how you approach electronic music. In the end it does sound more like Chiptune to me, or early electronic music. I can think of 2 reasons why :
- the sounds you used were for the most part basic sounds (like a simple saw or square wave), whereas in Synthwave the synth sounds are usually richer / more sophisticated.
- you used an organ sound for the chords which gives too much of a retro flavor. In Synthwave we would have used something more boldly synthy like a synth brass sound, modulated pads or strings for instance.
It does sound like Chiptune. My first thought was actually, "Bubble Bobble" : ua-cam.com/video/VTmJJ0lUyQc/v-deo.html
That "vibe" is a bit bouncier and cheery than most Synthwave I've encountered.
I think the meta-notion of category gets in the way, when a classical musician starts to explore such genres. It won't be the same anyway or it makes no sense in the first place.
music for a rave circus, dance hall, chill club whatever is always highly tied to a social movement or emotional condition of its time. when the wind changes direction, it may be gone and forgotten for decades. but a composer and producer may walk in and walk out and can have also a longer impact than that, because of some melodies of his own.
I think the problem is that electronic is the opposite in approach to classical.
Electronic music favors sound design over composition while classical favors composition over sound design
Though the sound design first approach is only the case with electronic due to synthesizers letting you “build” your own “instruments”
@@eightcoins4401 I don't think that this is a problem. Actually it was classical composers like Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Edgar Varèse and others, who were exploring electronic music first. One of the most selling classic albums is electronic: Switch on Bach.
Considering in his pupils' words "there was not a piece of music Liszt would not touch" and the fact he was famous for taking other people's work and changing them or adding elements that suited him (think extreme opposite to Clara Schumann) he would probably be really happy with what you did.
As a Synthwave producer this was really cool to watch. The end result definetly sounds a lot like a soundtrack from a retro game, which is really cool. There are so many amazing retro game scores, so I think it would be cool to see or hear those as classical pieces. Great video. Subscribed :)
I think it is so important to take old pieces like this and put them in a new medium. Bravo. I thought I had done something original when I did a small takedown arrangement of the D minor double Violin Concerto as a jazz arrangement, but then I realized Django Reinhardt did it nearly 100 years before me LOL
Thank you…!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sounds terrible and it's been done the lazy way!
It's an atrocity against human kind, music, and art!
@@piotrmalewski8178 It's not that deep my dude
@@jobuscuswafer1716 I don't care. I'm trying to escape from this atrocity of the world, and I run into this....
Somebody just kill me, I've had enough!
@@piotrmalewski8178 Did you just blast Django? Thems fighting words...
Damn, this made me feel like a kid again. The synthwave sound plus the kinda nostalgic/wistful chord progression, especially the E - Eaug - C#m, sound sooooo soothing together. Not even an 80s/90s kid, but love general VGM feel here! And I never would have suspected this was inspired by Liszt!
Nahre doesn't need a sequencer, she is the sequencer 🔥🔥🔥
A blessing and curse of classical music is becoming a metronome. You can play flawlessly with others, but it honestly limits certain points of creative expression. Precision is glorified, but sloppiness can be fun.
@Timothy Warner The more ingrained it is the "playing on the beat" on ur training, the harder it is to groove with yourself
Liszt was such an innovator that he would have probably been more furious about the idea of synthwave in general (as a retro trend) than about how you used your music.
Watching Nahre expand her musical horizons over the years has been a lot of fun. I hope that, near the end of the journey, she will share with us a profound musical truth.
Keep it up. 👍
It would be sad if her journey ended though, as that would suggest that she's lost her curiosity (unless by "the end of the journey" you mean 50+ years from now, when she writes her _final_ final barline). Humans have been creating music for far too long for anyone's horizons to ever reach a point where there's nothing more to expand into.
Nahre, if you haven't already explored the music of Isao Tomita, this reminds me of what he accomplished in interpreting the works of giants into the technological idiom of his time. Keep going! You did great.
His Debussy was always my favorite - Tomita's other-worldliness taking over where Debussy's left off.
I just recommended Daniel Olsen's cover of Claire de Lune (from the Sayonara Wild Hearts OST) and then checked out Tomita's page and it's his top song. Seems to be the big hit for synth lovers 😅
@@gracenotes5379 love his Debussy too! The Mussorgsky interpretations are my absolute favorite though.
@@SirNintendo28 Yeah, it's even more that way!
Omg! Thank you so much for suggesting him.
The end product was so fun and bouncy! I'm new to synth music, too, and I'm totally loving it. Thanks, Nahre!
I've always loved synth sounds. My fave band growing up was Emerson, Lake & Palmer. They fused a lot of classical works to the Hammond and Moog, my favorites being Copeland's "Hoedown" and "Fanfare for the Common Man".
Good taste
This track is really awesome and definitely synthwave ... Maybe it's not so suitable for general listening, but it would work really well in an early 1990's JRPG or arcade game.
Something like Rainbow Islands or Bubble Symphony.
To me, it's actually more reminiscent of the 60's or 70's. It sounds kind of like something Mort Garson could've made.
I can only imagine that if Liszt had access to an ARP2600 or a CS80, he would have embraced them made very good use of them. Well done and this is now giving me some ideas :)
This is so refreshing! Of course it is flawed both from a synthwave and a classical perspective, but instead it is flawless at finding new ground. It reminds me of Tomita and Carlos! Early synth stuff
If LIszt is still alive I'm sure he will compose something like this. That legend loves to improvise and explore new things as far as I know.
This sounds like the start of a very fun game! Love the exploration of music! Thanks. :)
You are among my absolute favourite music UA-camrs. (In "competition" with Adam Neely, David Bruce and 8bit theory) The most unique thing about you is your ability and drive to do things outside your comfort zone or main competance. You are simply one of the most insirational music UA-camrs. I absolute love the way you work! ❤️
I think most classical composers would've been quite intrigued and interested in the possibilities of synthesizers. The way you can shape their sounds and create such unique colours to the notes in a way that can be basically whatever you like, it's fascinating.
There's a video on youtube of a modular synthesizer playing some of Debussy's music. I'd check it out if I were you. Might be inspiring?
Yup, this video just kept reminding me of the themesong for The Adventure Zone: Ethersea, which is based on Clair de Lune: ua-cam.com/video/e6tcOHVglEg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Demi
This chord progression is so typical of liszt, appearing in his Concerto No.1, Un Sospiro and many other works, really a great choice of Liszt-y passage.
Ah, thank you, I was wondering about that. I wouldn't have thought it was based on Liszt if I just heard it out there in the wild, but once it's pointed out (or if I've been following the creation from the beginning like I did here), I can't _unhear_ the Liszt in it. I was wondering what exactly was part of his signature, but you've just gave a possible answer to that.
I left synth back in the the 80s .... yet So cool that people are remixing it today. Love musical remixing ... It creates bridges between music genres.
Very possibly my fav YT creator. I like the subject but am not hugely passionate but the way Nahre visually tells the story of her projects is so engaging and entertaining. Pacing/Editing, framing/shooting (as a yter) and the way she breaks the project down and communicates her experience in such an open relatable style. Im glued the whole time.
Fan of your creative process. Really sorry to hear about your laptop/equipment getting stolen. Glad it hasn't dimmed your mood too much.
Taking old pieces and putting them to new music is a really great idea! I think this track sounds like an NES game lol
I wonder if maybe the drums just need to be a little bit louder? A lot of synth wave has really big 80s drums. Amazing watching you work I love seeing your creative process!
"Trust the process!" Oh well! Now I have to share your video, 'cause you're a genius. And 'cause I love that motto! It's what I do.
One of my best favorite pieces of Liszt. Three sonettos are all so beautiful.
My first vinyl record was Atlas by FM-84 as seen in the examples of synthwave in the video. By far one of my favorites and now im trying to collect all of The Midnight's discography with just one record remaining. Those guys are the GOAT as well and I highly recommend everyone check them out, especially their new release Heroes 🌆
I never would've guessed a synthwave song to come from this channel, but I'm glad it happened!
Half way through, and I'm smiling so much :D
I love seeing your process and the way you doubt your takes, struggles, changes, trusting the process, trying a bunch of different things, and it ultimately leading to success. It's super inspiring- I think we see so much of just final products and even in "how i made it" videos a lot of edited to show the process going smoothly most of the time, and it's just so inspiring and refreshing to see the actual process. Thank you!
Sounds like a hybrid between chip and synthwave, with a classical flair. Very nostalgic
This was constructed beautifully, @Nahre. You have such an open and musical approach to all of your processes, and I get a kick out of you listening and modifying.
Love this! Just as I’m just gonna learn this piece! And I think Liszt will appreciate you for making his music still relevant today!
I love synthwave - and I love that you're getting creative with it. It sounds lovely and quite interesting!
Synthesizers can really help to give music that certain ambience - and they help making music "from first principles".
P.S.: If you don't listen to them already, you ought to give Gunship (e.g. "PInk Mist") and The Midnight (e.g. "Crystalline") a chance - they do it perfectly IMO.
I was looking for more recommendations and I'd like to add Afterlife by DEADLIFE, Oumuamua by Cassetter and Turbo Killer by Carpenter Brut.
Edit: If you enjoy the saxophone on Crystalline you should check out Paradise Warfare by Carpenter Brut.
Your the the best thing that could happen to classical music! I love your fresh view, creativity, talent, intelligence and intuition! Never stop searching and creating!
Woah I’ve been literally Obsessed with Liszt Annee de Pelaringe year 2 for the past week. So glad you choose this piece. Im pretty sure Liszt would love this himself cause he is the master transcriber 😊
I loved the result in the end of the video a lot! Wish you will make more videos like this👍👍👍
Great video. I never get tired of saying your creativity is really inspiring.
Very much enjoying your creative process! It’s inspiring to see you smiling while taking risks, and learning lessons to apply to future projects. Thank you!
Always love your creativity. Thank you for this Nahre.
Love this! And it's gorgeous considering which piece by him you picked. I have seen multiple attempts at modernizing pieces like this, and yours is as fantastic as any of them. I have seen everything now from synth to dubstep on one of Chopin's Etudes.
I bet Liszt would really be fascinated by synthesizers and all the possibilities they would introduce. Just imagine if instead of adding drums and locking it to a grid, you simply sound designed every voice individually with synthesizers after a performance. SO many possibilities!
the finished result put the biggest smile on my face! so bouncy and bubbly, i loved all the layered arpeggios at the start especially. the part after the drums come in reminded me fondly of mid-/late 2000s lemon demon. your open ended, explorative approach to experimenting with music often reminds me to approach my own music less rigidly and with more playful curiosity. thank you for that! 💓
Grew up in the synthwave era, and recently experimented with music production hoping to compose my own synthwave track, couldn't come anywhere close to what you made. Your composer talent shines through!
Very inspiring!! Your experiments are always surprising and entertaining!
Wow! I really like the approach you took for the piece! definitely gives a new perception for it
as a Lisztmaniac, I can say that I am in love with your joy to study and play Liszt' stuff
Hi Bro, another Lisztomaniac here👀 (And admin of Liszt-memepage👁️👁️)
Love this channel and the experimentation, keep it up!
I love this idea! After I got a Korg Radias 10 yrs ago, I came up with a simple disco version of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. Your piece was insanely catchy and super fun to listen to, 100% need an entire album of synthy covers of classical songs plz
This was genius @nahresol! I should have guessed you were going to come up with something cool when we had the chat about synthwave in Berlin :)
Oh, and can I say, nice touch with the neon pink cycle marker in Cubase 👌🏼
This is exactly what i was trying to find on UA-cam. Classical compositions in 80s synth style. Thank you for this video ❤
This is awesome. You transported me back to some old school games from my childhood. Love it. Well done.
This is wonderful, as someone who's invested in the synth community but who's traditional keyboard skills from childhood piano lessons are mostly forgotten and replaced by percussion it's awesome to see you exploring different faucets of music. While leveraging your mastery of the piano / keyboard in general to apply things. This why I tell people if you learn one instrument - it can be applied, at least at the start to simply explore or bridge into a new thing.
Love it!
Took me straight to Wintergatan's Marble Machine track, for some reason. Very enjoyable and a delight to see unfold under our eyes !
Just love this electron microscope-ish view of your creative process and the swashbuckling way you explore new ideas. The whole project seemed to bear no musical fruit until the very end, when you delivered that bubbly upbeat piece. Thanks for this uplifting start to another day Nahre!
This was very enjoyable! Really respect you jumping into something totally new just for fun. Inspiring!
I love watching you trying new styles. Would love to see your interpretation of Artcore !!
You make me want to PLAY Nahre…I am so inspired compose whenever I watch your videos!
So great! Thanks for what you do. Lisztening to the final iteration, I couldn't help but smile and bob my head uncontrollably. Always a good thing when that happens. 😊!!!
Awesome breakdown of Synthwave! Thanks for sharing!
Always a pleasure to watch and listen to you
For me this track has a fanciful playful atmosphere of a scene in a cartoon with constant motion. Your experiments are always interesting to watch, especially with you commentary on what goes where and why!
This was cool! The final version made me think of retro video game music that someone had gone back to and jazzed up a bit. It had too many layers to sound like it could have actually been from an old video game, but it had that simple, bouncy, repetitive quality that I associate with chip tune music. It was fun! :)
Also, I’ve been listening to a Great Courses lecture on the history of Western music. At one point, the instructor said, “I want you to imagine that you’re a composer,” and despite all the recent hours of lectures on Bach and Mozart, my brain immediately jumped to think of you as the first composer I could imagine myself being similar to. Thanks so much for all the hard with that goes into putting yourself out there on social media. You’ve helped me have a view of composers as modern and relatable real people. Having this framework helps me even see the older composers I’m learning about as more real, I think. Thanks again for all you do!
YES PLEASE!!! Love the nostalgic vibes from the actual source piece to the synth wave genre… I still listen to New Wave and I would totally listen to a whole album with different kinds of pieces like this!
I like your thought process!
Many moons ago I used to make dirty south crunk interpretations of classical music I found during midi file scavenger hunts. I imagine the composers would be flattered that you keep their ideas going with new flair. Great work!
OMG the resulting piece is so beautiful I love it
this is a really cool concept. rock-ON!
I love your synth videos. I'd listen to this longer than 20 seconds, it's (in a nice way) pretty insane music.
It sounds like a nice video game track! Good work. I'm a fan of what synths can do to fill in the rest as sheet music is simplified. It's not the amount of notes but what you can craft with them electronically for mood and creativity.
the way music was to always be, ever evolving to reflect the era we live in, while echoing its origins! love it so much
This sounds soooo good! Love the "old nintendo" vibes, i'd definitly see this in an old Final Fantasy game :) Bravo!!
I love you Nahre. Such a gem of a person.
"That is not gonna stick..."--that sounds _*AWESOME*!!!_ Let those sound waves ride!
That was really better than I expected from the beginning. "Trust the process" indeed! I think it was a successful start.
This is what a retro video games sound like in my dreams; with more harmony than my Sega master system would allow!
That came out REALLY cool. I'm more into Lofi than Synthwave (though I do listen to some), and have always been a fan of Liszt (the first half of the vid was a nail biter!), AND a musician--GREAT job! I LOVE how you layered it. Much more "complex" than most Synthwave--but I'm glad you hung in there and ended up with quite a "baroque synth wave" (new genre?).
please do full version it`s so beuatiful!
Synths, sonnets and Nahre Sol. I love these ingredients. Next Bartók and techstep please. :)
totally dig it. some parts of the piece you wrote reminded me of a song by muse i just dreamed about during my nap.
i have an affinity to synthwave that is a bit darker (namely "perturbator" and "carpenter brut"), but keep discovering stuff and really enjoy many aspects of it. especially when synthwave incorporates alot of interesting harmonic elements, it just reaches me in a way not alot of other music does.
alot of synthwave incorporates electric guitar which is kool, but i think there should be WAY more string instruments. like, a bed of synth sounds and a solo cello to play on top of that (or maybe a viola). i think it fills a certain frequency range that is just honey to my ears.
Since im 2000 times more into elektronisk music, than classical, but this was very fun and great result!!
I love synthwave and I love YOU nahre sol. I've always wanted to do sth like this, guess the only step left is to try. Thanks for sharing!
Your final Liszt take is marvelous!!
That intro reminds me very much of Ray Lynch's "The Oh of Pleasure." Which was released in 1984, so you're definitely hitting the mark!
nahre you are my fav musician youtuber. Period
Really enjoyed this video, and I hope you make more like it. As for the track itself, I really like bits of it and then it gets too be a bit too much. Maybe if there were some breaks between stretches of the fast paced melody.
I love this. The only thing I would have done when generating the rhythm, is take some part of the appreggio, and render it as a accompaniment to the drums. But what do I know. Great work.
Fun video, need more Synthwave Nahre in my life
Eerily good timing as I just randomly started messing around with some analogue hardware synths the other week and was pondering attempting synthwave covers of pieces I know. Been thinking of a completely different method, however, with more emphasis on a driving 16th note bassline to build upon.
I enjoyed this video. Trying to get back into the studio and do some musics each day. Thank you.
Very nice work!
Hey that came out really nice! pixel art vibes
Something I’ve learned myself as I’ve voyaged into electronic music production is that there’s a sorta paradoxical art form to phrasing that runs contrary to other forms of music.
So my initial instinct was “if I’m going to be looping this phrase for however many measures, I better make it as interesting as possible” when in fact the opposite is true. Simplicity actually lends its self better to repetition, and phrases with too many intricacies sort of begin to “mock” themselves after they’ve looped for a few times in a row.
Anyway I found it really cool to see you coming up against the same concept when you started experimenting with muting and subduing some of the phrasing. For us peeps who are coming from more “traditional” music styles, there’s actually a learning curve in how to hold back and restrain our note choices
Nice work!
I loved it. The beginning sound like ambient synth music, and then goes full on JRPG chiptune, with a sound that evokes, at least for me, a very child like state. For which the video also helped.
Hey Nahre - Very synthwavey 😊👍 Bit of a video game vibe for me. I love the idea of performing classics on synths. Can you imagine what some of the great classical composers would have written if they had our gear??? Please do more. Pretty please... 😊
For some reason I liked your initial trial "deletion" piece at 4:00 the most. The video itself was entertaining and enlightening as usual.
I LOVE synthwave! And Listz! thank you so much! :D
For someone who is not classically trained, lending inspiration from classical music has always been of great help to me. It's always fun to hear the elegance performed by top-tier musicians getting transformed to something that could have been made in another galaxy. In Ableton Live, there is a function which allows you to turn audio directly to midi, which always makes for super interesting translation mistakes, especially when it needs to translate lots of instruments. From those mistakes hundreds of cool ideas can be born.
The motif/melody of the 2nd half from Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps (The sacrifice: Introduction) is one of my favorite pieces of music to mess around with.
Love you Nahre