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  • This should be a video game!

  • Dear Smalin,

    I have several recordings of the piece and I'm not mistaken; for some reason, this version is truncated. That echo-like effect Beethoven creates at 1:19 (and elsewhere in the piece) is supposed to repeat. Check out any other version on YouTube or play one on your stereo. You'll see what I'm talking about.

  • @Margaux177 I see what you're taking about, and I see why you think this version is truncated. It's actually the other versions that are truncated: they don't take the repeat (back to the beginning) that's supposed to happen at 1:19. Mine does; if you listen at 2:33, you'll see that it's the same, but it goes on (and repeats that figure as part of that).

  • I love it

  • Smalin, like Stalin!

    But not...

  • This is the best movement of his ninth symphony!

  • I think its cool how in the early 70s this style of composition became popular again for a while. With rock instruments sure, but the compositions are much more important than the instruments used.

  • The first part goes on a bit long... but then comes the trio, the most amazing trio ever composed and completely makes up for it!

  • Very cool but it's been edited for brevity at 1:19 -- you can even see the gap in the visuals.

  • @Margaux177 No, you're mistaken. This is the full piece. The place you've pointed out is where it repeats the first section. The second time around (at about 2:33) it goes on.

  • How is it that this kind of music is timeless?

  • Few people can make this music more beautiful. You have done it! Besides it's fun to tell people "I am watching Beethoven's ninth"

  • In life sometimes words are not enough, this piece says alot

  • Is it wrong that this music makes me think of Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase? It is a beautiful show.

  • I woudln't be surprised to discover you worked on the "AudioSculptures" Videos around here. I love them like I love these.

  • This would make an incredible side-scroller game if you had to keep up and stay only on the white panels.

  • This is one for turning your computer up as loud as it can get (before distorting) and enjoying the genius :)

  • haha wow, chill out everyone! i wasn't trying to create an argument! just hush and listen to the music =)

  • Music for human beings.

  • :D

  • Sin palabras :D

  • ha! I think the first notes of this are used when entering battles in N3! (I'm pretty sure, but it's been a long time since I played.)

  • Waiting to listen to beethoven...waiting to listen......ADVERTISEMENT .. god damnit -.- 

  • Thank you for allowing us to see one of Beethoven's best works. It has taken me a while to look up, and find such a good video that has the original instruments and what not.

  • @tombucceroni

    nahhh I'm tired, bed is the right way now to take a spatchka, right right?

  • this blows my mind into 50million pieces.. i dont even... wut

  • it's time for countdown with keith olbermann. seriously, i love this symphony.

  • I just heard this yesterday in San Antonio. It was beautiful, I felt angry, disappointed and headstrong at the same time

  • I'm doing Macbeth's Act 5, scene 1 (Lady Macbeth's sleep walking scene) for a drama festival. And I need some powerful, awesome, creepy, pathetic, chilling music for it. I mean, it could be any of the above. But it has to be awesome, and literally be the fourth person on stage. Any suggestions?

  • @plainjane108 What about this song? :D

  • @MrPapergunner Um, because this totally does not fit the mood. Like, she's wracked by so much wrenching guilt she's going mad. Its really sad, the audience is supposed to feel intense pity for her. They should be weeping. I dont think this is the song for it.

  • No words... Just feelings and thoughts.

    Thank you for this great video

  • Dude, i'm SO subscribing to you right now

  • Oh the winds of frustrated persons who take the blame for people as if they have more to do with them than they actually do; as if they have *anything* to do with them. (need I explain?)

    Oh, and what a sin to let out words here. I just disappointed myself. Shame on you, emma -.-

  • Yay! The good format :D

  • Anyway.... I continue thinking it's ridiculous put this images for this music. Music is something that flows from the HEART. So it's very SAD, seeing how people tries to associate it with a "digital" image. This is exactly an example of how our society loose their values. People just don't see more the things with the heart. They see it WITHOUT heart. It's really sad. And much more sad seeing it with such a music of Beethoven, that it has no words to expres such beauty. It's not a crime but...

  • This always reminds me of Clockwork Orange.

  • This doesn't have a million views yet lady gaga has more then ten million. I'm fourteen and I think my genarition is the dumbest there ever was because they don't apreciate this masterpiece!

  • awesome. i just happened to stumble upon this video at random and once i heard those first notes i couldn't stop listening. nothing captures your attention like good old beethoven :)

    kinda sad my generation has such crappy taste in music and too poor attention spans to appreciate good music like this.

  • @crazitaco About 15% of the views of this video are from people under 18.

  • @smalin You should remember the major part of internet users or youtube users in particular is <18 either so actually I think 15% is a low percentage, even though I expected it to be even smaller. I agree with crazitaco. I visit a gymnasium (that is the german term for high school) and experienced, that there is only one single person except me in all my classes listening to this type of music.

    The great majority listens to whatever is in the charts.

  • @hugodorektori Do you think the proportion is different for people 20 years older than you?

  • @smalin Not necessarily, I want to point out, that young people (in Germany, I don't have any idea about other countries) get to know this type of music. Firstly it simply does not get promoted, secondly it is stereotypically boring for young people and thirdly the German school system does not show pupils how and why to love this kind of music at school. Music lessons at school have unluckily adapted to the low standards of knowledge about music, we basically do nothing at these lessons

  • @hugodorektori smalin is right. people think that the old music has now gone to past.we face the same problem in Greece. In my high school only me and other 6 persons listen to this kind of music, from professors: just 2. and my school is judged to be exemplar

  • @hugodorektori Bluhbluh, there's tons of kids who listen to good music, although much less that actively listen to classical, for whatever reasons. I should know, I'm in cahoots with a good number of them

  • @fromMouq No one is in the position to rate music, to call it good or bad. Of course there are many kids out there who share your taste of good music, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this kind of music in particular, nothing else^^

  • @hugodorektori it's really hard to find any two people in the same room that listen to the exact same music. that's a silly example to use.

  • "The great majority listens to whatever is in the charts" is a bit of a tautology.

  • @hugodorektori I thought gymnasium is the same all over :)

  • @smalin Thank you Smalin for these videos. You grabbed my attention and made me better appreciate classical music and get a better grasp on how talented these composers are. This music is truly a piece of art.

    Keep up the great work!

  • @smalin Im 14 and i love your videos,keep up the good work! Btw,i like heavy metal and classical music-wierd combo huh?

  • @JosipAvelini no. not at all

  • @smalin You're right because I'm 11 and i listen to this song all the time!!! wish we had more good music like this these days

  • @smalin Well lets misleading I'm 16 but I list my age as 28! :P Why? So I can see censored videos!

  • @SarionFetecuse couldnt you list your age just as 18? so it was more accurate xd

  • @crazitaco don't be a dick brah.

    why can't I listen to Gucci Mane and Beethoven?

  • @crazitaco good tunes... mixing them with Atari crash screens?

  • @crazitaco To each his own I say, I'm 16 and have been listening and playing this type of music. You shouldn't say those people lack attention spans because they don't like the music you listen to.

    A lot of people criticize me because I don't like Bach, I think he's a bit of a robot. His music is beautiful but it lacks something I can't quite explain, there's nothing special, I guess would be the closest thing to what I want to say.

  • @crazitaco I agree. But have hope that there are a good amount of young adults and teenagers 'out-there,' who have an appreciation for the classical arts.

  • @mbdcia While this piece has no copyright on it anymore, I do believe this recording does ;)

  • My favorite

  • What a great way to show the dynamics of this music! I love it!

  • 3:58 someone coughs

  • Absolutely amazing. I wish I could play music like this in my band.

    But no, our band teacher makes us play Taio Cruz. **sigh** Sadness... :(

  • this red is violin

  • Absolutely epic.

  • awesome

    

  • Amazin!

  • Just too cool. Thanks very much. Would you consider giving 'Stairway To Heaven' this treatment?

  • @mbdcia Sorry, it's protected by copyright.

  • @smalin Oh, well.Thanks

  • @smalin thank you so much for what you do. i am a pre-med student and listening to your videos, as well as taking breaks in my studying to watch the videos has contributed largely to my success and good grades. you are helping me get the career of my dreams!

  • You should do one for Russlan and Ludmilla Overture. That would be an interesting challenge.

  • Holy crap... I watched this whole thing through with close eye on the visuals and when it stopped the whole page started moving to the right. But nonetheless I loved it.

  • post yfw u saw "As seen in /r/"

  • AMAZING. That's all, thanks for your time (:

  • When the music starts , world shake

  • This more epic than what my computer came with!!! That version sounded cheap, but this one sounds more rich!!!

  • Absolutely Beethoven! Great!

  • Wow! I never realized this movement was close to 14 minutes long if you all repeats are taken!

    I like all repeats taken.

  • "Our old friend, Ludwig Van."

  • What made him become deaf?

  • @LtCrunch42 If you put that question into Google, you'll get as good an answer as any.

  • @smalin How long did it take you to actually do this one?

  • @2011ROFLCopter I don't remember; probably a week or so.

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  • @smalin :O hey people dont you realize how much time smalin is working for us to enjoy a song??? those 30 dislikes should not be there and this video would deserve more views, and thanks smalin i love what you put on the internet continue :) peope enjoy your songs :)

  • @LtCrunch42 He took too much mercury and by the time he died he was almost completely deaf

  • @lovefan300 That was once a theory, but the evidence suggests it is not correct. Samples of Beethoven's hair have been tested; traces of lead were found, but not mercury.

  • Music Like This Makes The Earth Go Round !

  • dem notes too high for the screen

  • imma fan of beethoven, and LOVE the drums

  • This is so epic, best one of his symphonies

  • Awesome piece! Amazing how you can do this and show the music of the instruments!

  • Can someone explain to me how Beethoven saw/heard all of this in his head and then wrote it down?

  • @Joel72685 To start with, Beethoven (like any well-trained musician) could read music fluently --- which meant that he could look at music and hear what it sounded like (the same way you can read these words and know what they sound like) and write down music he could imagine. Add that he could improvise music like this at will (like a jazz musician these day). On top of that, he was very sensitive, and had good judgement.

  • @smalin I've always had a sense of awe with his music, that a deaf man could master sounds so perfectly.

  • @StealMONKEY He mastered it before he became deaf.

  • @Joel72685 Truely awesome, but because someone is deaf doesn't mean that they don't hear it inside their head. Some see complex music as shapes and colours. A bit like it is presented here. It turns out that harmonies that sound pleasing also look elegant. I think its called synaesthesia. You may have even experienced it yourself, for example if you heard a note that was played wrong you might have imagined a chink in the music shape - I identify with this.

  • @Joel72685 Dude, he's Beethoven.

  • I bet Beethoven would've understand this mathematically visual complex video in one nanosecond.

  • @StartbahnWest Well, since children as young as five months old can understand and appreciate my videos, I don't think it would have been too much of a stretch for Ludwig.

  • @smalin

    Did you get some irony in my comment?

    Sorry, i should have said picoseconds.

  • I close my eyes everytime i listen to this music...and all i hear is the sound of Beethhovens' brilliance!!

  • It looks like a rainbow... *is mesmorized* 

  • fantastic addictive piece of german efficiancy,if you want music to touch you without words beetoveen's your man.

  • This is possibly my favourite piece by Beethoven! And one of the best performances of this I have heard.

  • Wow, this is one of the best recordings I have ever heard.

  • Baroque pitch?

  • My Favorite.

  • @kierkegaardrulez I believe the orchestra is not tuned to A440, which is probably the reason.

    PS. Kierkegaard does indeed rule ;)

  • One of my favorite symphonies and posted on my birthday!!!

  • Is it just me or is this a bit flat, I mean like a quarter step approximately?

  • @kierkegaardrulez It doesn't really count if the ENTIRE orchestra is "out of tune"...that just means that they are tuned to a different pitch.

  • Confusing to see the Strings as normal formed Squares again...

  • To any of you who experiment with hallucinogens or have thought about it, I recommend watching this video during your trip. Incase you haven't already thought of the idea.

  • We listen to the music and make this. I think the musicians saw this and made it into music.

  • A sonic mirror for the "spiritus mundi".

  • This is so cool. When I was young I used top draw the music in lines going up and down jigsaw style, in order to better "experience" it. Obviously it wasn't as precise or satisfying as this!

  • beautiful

  • watching those coloured squares made my eyes go funny. Magnificent though!

  • so impressive! beautiful music also looks beautiful :)

  • Just looked at the digital representation in this video and thought of this. Can it be that there is an information encoded in the music? (i.e. steganography) :D Maybe I've just been working too much this year.

  • @valizadi There are hidden messages in some music (in cases where the composer was into numerology or liked playing games), but in general, you'd be better off looking elsewhere.

  • @smalin Wow! Really? Can you give me some examples of composers who have encoded messages in their music?

  • @RossOzarka Well, the most famous is probably Bach using the notes B-A-C-H (H is what they call B-natural in Germany; B is what they call B-flat) as the them of one of his fugues. Schumann did a fair amount of that sort of thing. I'm not interested in the subject, so I haven't kept track of a lot of example.

  • @RossOzarka Shostakovich was also known to include short text messages (not SMS messages!) in his music. His tenth symphony (third movement I think?) is probably the most famous example.

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  • @valizadi This is what first comes to mind, but in artistic point of view! Yeah seeing the movements, up and down, long and short, are telling the story of life, but now can be seen rather than just felt. In fact the art is same from all angles you look through. Beauty is what takes you to an aspect of the truth.

  • i think this is the one of the greatest peices of music ever composed

  • such emotion! beethoven is a genius!

  • <3 Beethoven #9

  • could u imagine this sonume in a traffic jam.. lol xDDD everyone wud b looking so weirdly lool xDD

  • utter awe

  • this is how beethoven saw his music when he wrote it 

  • So great! My synasthetic associations are a little bit different in coloring. But still looking at the voices is sheer pleasure. Thank you.

    I wonder if you once will do the symphony of Hans Pfitzner in C-sharp-major. But I don't even find a decent recording nowadays.

  • @costep Correction: it is in C-Major.

  • didn't know deaf people could write music like that!!!

  • amazing when you think Beethoven created this... This has to be very complicated with all the different instruments .

  • My favorite Beethoven's symphony (complete by sure). Is very interesting this work, congrats.

  • Great. Thanks a lot!

  • Beethoven Hero

  • a visualization of genius

  • I like the white better than the bright colors used in others, it makes it much clearer 'where' we are acoustically.

  • Good job... every video is bester that previus... pls still making ^^

  • was soll man sagen? das alleine schränkt diese perfektion schon ein. veni vidi vici. ouuhh man.....

  • Great recording, but it's waaaay off standard D minor.

    Are all baroque orchestras like that?

  • @nahedh waaaay off standard d minor? what do you mean?

  • @SkyFlierx2 I mean it's leaning dangerously close to C#, ie. the tonic's played at a frequency lower than 1170 hz. Unless my hearing's off today or something.

  • @nahedh the orchestra is not tuned to 440Hz, so D is not D

  • @btyremanable D is still D. A 440 is A and so is A 430...and 431,432,433, etc. Technically A 440 would be wrong anyways. And this is why I am perfectly fine with having relative pitch, so long as all the instruments are tuned to the same pitch I am fine.

  • @666NedFlanders so you are saying that A is A even when it's 438Hz? because it certainly sounds different to me! I can actually hear these differences but I don't know many people that can, being a musician and producer helps a lot...

  • @nahedh Not all but orchestras in some areas and orchestras who specialize in certain fields of music often tune to a pitch other then 440hz A. They do this because the modern standard is not true to what pitch the music was played at when it was written. Composers hear certain pitches in their head and certain musicians like to re-create those pitches more accurately than 440hz can manage.

  • this is probably the best video you have made on this channel!

  • @mrsandmanxj9 Have you seen the 4th movement? (The version of it that I uploaded a few hours ago has a bunch of wrong notes, so I'm redoing it; the fixed version should be up by tomorrow.)

  • @smalin thank you for posting that movement! i've been looking forward to it for such a long time!

  • @smalin i have seen it (all the way through), GREAT!, but still i just love the sound and look of this video, i mostly like the video you make with just the bars and no other graph style.

  • Being that Beethoven was completly deaf at the time of his composing this, I wonder if his mind was rather able to lay it out like this.

  • makes me think of A Clockwork Orange.

  • @PaigeTheCoolKid2 I see what you did there.

  • I love being able to see this music, watching all the amazing sounds coming. Keep up the awesome work!

  • I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!

  • @enriquesuarezz Yeah,man! Praise Bog!

  • People asking about Grieg...

    Do they mean just a little piece or "Do you want the total Grieg?"

    :-)

  • Oh, you need Grieg! :) Norway all the way! He made some amazing legends!

  • I can't sleep if I didn't hear this song.

  • I think "Orchestra Hero" will look something like that. Matter of time when some asian kid will master it.

  • Huntley- Brinkley News Title song NBC(1958-1970)

  • Incredible.

  • I really appreciate the upload, this is just about the only music I can listen to while doing my homework, thanks!