Being a cover, an instrumental cover of an a capella song would have instruments playing and not just be silence…
a capella instrumentals
Right, it would consist of the instruments mimicking the voice of the original singer
Edit: That makes me wonder, has anyone ever tried to actually imitate human speech with musical instruments? How many would you need?
There’s an old video where someone converted songs to MIDI piano and the vocals are still almost distinguishable. It’s purely an illusion and it only works if the listener knows the lyrics, but it’s pretty convincing.
Here’s a much more effective MIDI-ification of a song with vocals: https://youtu.be/0k7UD64RwGU
Haha that’s awesome! It is surprising but somehow also makes sense.
Jeff Beck was really good at imitating human voice without the voice box. Badass guitarist.
I know talk boxes have gone out of style, but that’s as close as you’ll ever get.
The talking piano… I fail to understand it’s words but nice video.
Not sure about the human speech, but there is a certain mongolian string instrument able to perfectly immitate a horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE (4:41)
Not quite what you mean, but it reminded me of a Game Grumps episode where they talk about it for a loooong time…
I saw a documentary about an old-timey music device someone invented and put on shows mimicking voice. It was very complicated to play and I don’t even know how much of it has survived.
One of my fave instruments-as-speech tracks blends vocals and guitar Fun Lovin Criminals - My Sin
Yeah. It should be a capella karaoke tracks.
John Cage’s 4’33"
It’s not a bad performance of the piece, but it’s far more up-tempo than the composer intended.
Exactly! I mean, come on… completing 4’33" in 3’43" is just preposterous.
As a python programmer, this is the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.
For the first minute I was still waiting, then I understood.
Beat me to it. It’s a fun thought experiment determining what really defines music and I always love to hear people’s answers. Are recordings of nature considered to be music? The idle ambience of everyday life? If yes, then why not 4’33"? If no, why not?
4’33” on repeat.
There are plenty of covers of 4’33"
Edit: I’m not joking
True, I just finished playing one of them.
Next mozart over here
About 8 billion or so, if I had to guess.
You can take my kids out of the count. I haven’t gotten 4 minutes of silence since they were born.
My kids are outside the house at the moment and I’m literally sitting in a dark, silent house. It’s almost eerie how foreign this feeling is to me, to just sit around in silence. I’m quite enjoying my cover of 4’33", I’ve listened to it a dozen times now.
I particularly like the 4’33" (downtempo electronica extended mix). 12 minutes and 54 seconds of perfect digital silence. You can almost hear the individual zeroes in the signal
Not even that. That piece proves that there is no such thing as silence.
no music!
I like how they’re styled like Pokemon elemental types
My favorite game sound track is from dysmantle.
There’s no music in 99% of the game; only at campfires and cutscenes.
It took me 42 hours (out of roughly 100 to complete the game) to notice the lack of music, because I always turn music down to 50%, sound effects to 75%, and leave dialogue/voices at 100%.
Edit: this post has attracted a downvote troll! Yay! Please disregard downvotes on any post under the OOP, because some asshole needs a hobby :)
Weird flex but okay
It’s related to the main post, and not a flex, just a thing that happened.
Some of us legit dgaf about music.
Thats me! I almost always disable music and ambiance noises in games.
Then you should try dysmantle, if you are at all into destroying your environment/surroundings!
You can break down everything, but it doesn’t replenish so like it gets kinda bleak if you destroy everything… but by the time I finished the game I game up breaking the buildings cus I had all the materials I needed.
All the same it’s on an island so you don’t feel too bad.Various human-inhabited islands also has no trees so it’s just a thing.
You must lead a sad existence. No music? I’d rather be dead.
I feel sad for you that you don’t see a possible rich existence without music…
One of us is lacking in life, but it certainly is not me.
Music is inherently human. To not enjoy music is not even a human existence. You lack music, so your life is lacking.
Music is important for some humans some of the time. It is not necessary for all humans at all times. So like you are wrong and stuff.
I like a lot of music, but I don’t want it most of the time because there are better sounds to listen to, like nature.
I won’t be responding to your pathetic trolling attempts from here on tho. You clearly don’t know shit about humans, despite claiming to be one.
Turns out we aren’t all the same and don’t all want the same dumb shit the lowest common denominator wants, like pop music. Some of us want peace and quiet even if we can understand and appreciate what about popular music makes it appealing to others.
Music is more than just what you hear on the radio. There will most certainly be something that is for you, yoyur just not digging deeper than the surface. And there’s so many riches down in the depths.
I had a similar experience with Animal Well, though I actually did have the volume up. In that though, there’s enough random little melodies scattered throughout that it didn’t really feel like it was without music. Every sound the character and setting made contributed to the ambience. I love music, but it was still beautiful.
there is never silence
I got a friend that actually doesn’t listen to any music or sounds of any kind.
Bro’s friend is a plant.
Plants like music though. For the science behind this, check out any middle school science project.
No plants like carbon dioxide 😭
I like The Sound of Silence
I knew a musician who did an amazing cover of Come to Me by Bobby McFerrin. It translates really well into a guitar.
I particularly like songs with the silent parts building up the anticipation of what’s about to come next. Like at the beginning of Whole Lotta Rosie, although you can hear a soft hihat in the background when Angus stops picking.
“What music do you like?”
“Anything not on your list”
