Listening Survey - need participants (danger: pianos ahead)

[Empathy]

Good evening gentlemen,

As part of my studies I have been tasked with conducting a very small-scale creative project of sorts; I decided to do a simple comparison of fundamental associations of both major and minor keys in music.

To cut to the chase, I'm simply looking for absolutely anybody that has anything to do with music to have a listen to the following two tracks, then give me three words you think best describe the mood of the piece - what emotions do each of the tracks inspire within you? Whether you like classically inspired music or not, I'd love to have results from people of all musical backgrounds.

Should you decide to participate, all I need you to do is post a reply with three words describing both the E Minor and Major pieces, and if you feel like it, a brief summary of your musical interests. I'd advise writing out your opinion for the first song before listening to the second.

Tracks are here:





The tracks are arranged by myself, and are identical apart from one being arranged in the original scale of E Minor, the second being in E Major. For those that are curious, the piece is written by Nobuo Uematsu, featured in the Lost Odyssey OST. I scored and performed the MIDI data for the track, and sampled the piano, with a bit of processing.

Hope you like it, and thanks to anyone that joins in!

 

[slayercannibalsuffohead]

1. Lost, sad, hopelessness.
2. Childish, optimism, playful.

If its any help, I constantly have the radio at work on ABC classical FM, and I dig bands such as Hate Eternal, Suffocation, Morbid Angel etc ........ and the odd bit of Jazz and Crooner music as well. Ragtime music, (I think thats what it is called), is pretty cool to listen to as well.

 

[Morgan C]

First one: evolving, hollow, don't have a third word.
The 'hollow' aspect I think comes more from the production than the composition.. I didn't actually know that it was a fake piano when I started listening but it sounded empty and slightly mechanical and.. like a small piano in an unnaturally large room. Not sure if you were looking for that aspect of it.

Second one: discordant, lacking.. again no third word.

 

[Empathy]

Thanks for the replies guys! The more the merrier.

@slayer: thanks for providing some musical background, very diverse interests there.

@Morgan: only really interested in the composition, though the production input is still appreciated. The samples are the NI New York Grand Piano, with SIR2 busting out the HDIR church impulse. I do love pianos in big rooms - still, would have to agree that it doesn't sound as huge as it should with a tail that extreme.

 

[Empathy]

Just going to go ahead and bump this, report is due in on Friday so I'm scrounging as many 'results' as I can.