# Mousike > The musical proportions seem to me to be particularly correct > natural proportions. > > Novalis Within mousike, you can experience numbers. This is a list of mousike I listened to at the time and thought that it was worth mentioning. Not necessarily good or bad. Just worth mentioning. Some are serious stuff while other things are totally not. Note that the length of each music section doesn't necessarily represent the importance or even my favorite. And I don't want to write obvious things like how Beethoven's symphonies are great. So while I often listen to those works, I omited them. * Bohlen-Pierce Canon by Kjell Hansen (2024.04.18) I love Bohlen-Pierce scale. I don't know. Although it's not objectively pleasable sound, it's mathematically pleasable and that makes it pleasable to my ear. I think that's an example of [Theory] = [Sense]. Muh tritave and 3:5:7. * Angel's Salad by katagiri (2024.04.19) This is a good electroacoustic music. The bad part is that it's too short. * Etudes de rythme - II. Mode de valeurs et d'intensites by Olivier Messiaen (2024.04.22) Why do I listen to this total serialism masterpiece? I don't know. For me, total serialism feels like home. It's comfy. Listen to a computer. Not to a human. Humans can't correctly play this music. * Sinfonie Op.21 by Anton Webern (2024.04.22) I like this way more than 5 pieces & 6 pieces. I really love Webern's pointillism and klangfarbenmelodie. Truly a cultural heritage. * Pithoprakta by Iannis Xenakis (2024.04.22) Personal favorite. It's the statistical mechanics one. * Beethoven's Symphony No.9 conducted by Pierre Boulez (2024.04.24) LOL. LMAO EVEN. I really like this one too. Sorry for normal Beethoven enjoyers, but this is my most favorite. Just feel the autism and vibe with it. I think if you like Baroque music, you would like this and any music conducted by Pierre Boulez. * Bacchanale for prepared piano by John Cage (2024.05.15) I like prepared piano stuff. And this is the original. I don't know why prepared piano is not that popular instrument considering the popularity of pianos. * Piano Sonata No.2 by Charles Ives (2024.05.15) a.k.a. Concord Sonata. I just wanted some transcendentalism today. By the way, he is one of the most underrated composers in the whole history. I think he is THE BEST American composer. * Gray Zone nite. by wowaka (2024.05.29) This is his first music and the most criminally dismissed one. I think this is great as much as "Rollin Girl" or "Unknown Mother-Goose". But almost nobody knows it because it is a pre-"Ura Omote Lovers" era music. Of course it's good to escape the real world. * Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis (2024.06.02) I suddenly had an epiphany out of nowhere and wanted to listen to this. Now I kinda feel this music wholeheartedly... Maybe you can say the dialectics by order vs chaos and the relativity and blah blah, but for me it feels like a mere fact of how the world becomes. More correctly, it is the world itself... not just some parts of the world like metaphysical laws. It is the All itself. The becomings. I don't know how to explain it precisely and this is totally subjective but I feel that way. Maybe I'm totally wrong. In fact, that's also how I usually feel from his music in general. "It's literally the world itself!". I think that's called "natural" beauty. In the sense of natural philosophy. Empedocles cosmic cycle. * Magic Rectangle by Elaine Walker (2024.06.04) Well, she is a typical Elon Musk and technology worshipper with high functioning autism. But since she sometimes makes interesting Bohlen-Pierce music I sometimes listen to her music. I don't especially prefer this over her other music. But since it is recently re-released I listened to this today. * Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op.1 by Anton Webern (2024.06.04) Surprisingly? Webern could make tonal music. It's still great and short like his other works. Listen to this if you haven't. * Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op.10 by Anton Webern (2024.06.04) Its klangfarbenmelodie is so notable and it occasionally contains fortissimo. Why serialism is great is that since there is no dominant tone every note is equally important. But if there are many notes, each note becomes meaningless despite the atonality because of the size. In that sense, Webern's music is the greatest since his music is small enough to give each note a meaning, and each note is usually in pianissimo so that you should intentionally care about it, and each other instrument plays each note so that it sounds / becomes unique. How kind he is! No doubt that he is the greatest composer ever existed. He is a legend. I have unlimited respect for him. * Agnus Dei (2024.06.04) Gregorian Chant. "Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, misere nobis". Kyrie, eleison. * Boku no Sainou by wowaka (2024.06.12) I had this kind of feeling today. So I listened to this and it was really good. * Risen by Terry Davis (2024.06.27) TempleOS Hymn. The best music written by the best angel in all the eternity. * 15 Inventions by J.S. Bach (2024.07.02) Back to the basic. Bach's music is the sound of heaven. In a literal sense. To write like a gnostic, it is not tainted by the Demiurge. It shows the Pythagorean and Platonic ideal. * Allegro Barbaro Sz.49 by Bela Bartok (2024.07.07) My favorite. Listen to this percussion piano. * Merzbuddha by Merzbow (2024.07.07) Most people know only the Pulse Demon meme. But try this. This is so underrated album. I chose him because he might be a nice intro to Japanoise. There was a time when I listened to Japanoise everyday. But after a busy time in which I couldn't listen to music for weeks, I haven't listened to these kind of music much. * Uwasa Kazoe Uta (2024.07.22) Magia Record OST. Composed by J.A. Seazer. J.A. Seazer is good. Though I haven't listened to his music for a while. * The Lincolnshire Poacher by The Conet Project (2024.07.22) LOL. Lyrics: 39715 66475 19274 92028 78494 24146 68542 17507 39398 32348 59378 70636 * Ougon Suu (2024 ver.) by Iyowa (2024.07.26) Nice texture. Compared to the original version being discrete, it has become a continuum. Though the original version was much more structurally clear because of that. Hence while mentally I like the original version more, sensually this is much better. 1 1 2 3 5 Although Fibonacci sequence and the golden section are not especially my favorites, I enjoy when a composer uses them. Like Bartok or Xenakis for example. * Requiem in D minor K.626 by W.A. Mozart (2024.08.08) I suddenly wanted to listen to this today. * The Sweddish Rhapsody by The Conet Project (2024.08.08) I think this is the most famous one. I really like its modulations?. * FAKE IDOL by Aitsuki Nakuru (2024.08.13) This is exactly why I love seiyuu singing. Regardless of the music itself and their singing skills, they ACT when they sing. Her voice is so good and she knows how to use that voice. And her singing is very touchy to the ears. The chorus is where her acting shines. The anxiety at the last chorus is good too. * Pulse Demon by Merzbow (2024.08.19) LOL Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr It's a meme. To be honest, this is not a good album. Merzbow himself is kinda overrated too. But sometimes I just want to torture my ears. * Theta waves (2024.09.28) Recently I'm into listening to brainwaves. My favorite is theta. * Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky (2024.10.25) Recently I listened to tons of Stravinsky. I really like this along with his serialism works. Ballet, orchestra version, piano version are all equally good. * Requiem Canticles by Igor Stravinsky (2024.10.25) This is a serialism masterpiece. And very Stravinsky. * Unhappy Refrain (Album) by wowaka (2024.12.03) After reading this list again, I realized that I might write about every song in this album. I don't want to. So here is my opinion on this album. I will not write about this album after then. To release the album, he remixed the songs. For the consistency of the album. I personally prefer the original mixes. Soundwise it's great and I can see some archetypes. But to be honest, it's not THAT GREAT to have a cult. I love wowaka. But I don't want to lie. Why wowaka is so great is because of the things behind the sounds. He is essentially transcendental. Though not necessarily religious. But he tried to be secular. That's an interesting point. And I heavily suspect about how people who can't speak Japanese could truly understand it. Sure. They can read his interviews, translated lyrics, &c. But in the end, Japanese is not an everyday language for them. "Zureteiku" in this album might be an example. In contrast, "Tenohira" might be easy to understand. To understand its greatness you have to instinctively understand that in what context people speak like that and SOUND like that. If you don't speak Japanese, that isn't possible. Language is not just about logical meaning. I dismiss the interpretation that "Rolling Girl" is about depression. That's completely a nonsense. "Rolling" definitely means living a life and being suffered by that, but trying again and again. You can even consider it a Gnostic or Buddhist work. Depending on the focal point. The road to henosis. "Ura-Omote Lovers" represents that love is at the same time both the most secular and the most transcendental. It is the exemplar of this album. Overall, the album itself is quite like "Shoujo Rei" for me. But much more transcendental. The tension between the essence and the representation makes the totality. * Beethoven's Symphony No.5 conducted by Pierre Boulez (2025.01.17) I always go back to this autism. Well, I obviously like Boulez. But especially his Beethoven triggers me so hard. I don't know. Literally my body trembles. Everytime I listen to him, I think "What the heck is this? Too autistic! So cool!". * Kimi yo by La Priere (Aitsuki Nakuru solo) (2025.01.18) I don't understand why I listen to this. But I like this anyway. Nakucha is such an interesting person. The music is actually 5 min. But since there are so many modulations and a lot of stuff goes on, it has never felt like a 5 min music. * Sinfonia No. 9 in F Minor by J.S. Bach (2025.01.28) Masterpiece. I don't have any more words for this. If you listen to this without the score, you are definitely doing wrong. * Voiles by Claude Debussy (2025.01.28) Just to listen to its famous pentatonic part. I like pentatonic scale. It's also partially why I like traditional Japanese music. * Nomos Alpha by Iannis Xenakis (2025.01.28) I have started to read Pythagoreans. I will write a post about it after I finish the reading. I listened to Xenakis today because of it. So the argument is like this: Music is a miniature of the world. Its purpose is to purify souls by representing mathematical principles. The eternal order of the cosmos that you can't sense but can see with your nous. Within music, you can SENSE it. Pythagoras found this when he listened to the sounds of hammers. * Hakusen by Katsuragi Lilja (2025.02.26) Well not serious stuff at all. I accidently heard "Campus mode!!" today and it reminded me of this. Best idol mousike ever. This is literally all I want from idols. This is as if only good things from Akimoto Yasushi were there. The intentional? poor singing is so good. They didn't fix it! Lilja is my Gakumas oshi. I quite like Hanaiwa Kana too. Her acting in MiSide was especially good. * Herma by Iannis Xenakis (2025.03.08) I'm trying to apply Pythagoreanism to outside of tonal "leaving home then returning home" music. The problem is that the more it is Boulez type mathematical, the harder it is to achieve. Because Pythagoras emphasized harmony a lot. He regarded music as medicine for soul. Conversely he regarded medicine as music for body. It feels like the golden ratio or the natural exponent in Ergodic theory. The more it is ordered on the surface, the more chaotic it truly is. Total serialism is hecking chaotic. It is not that different from aleatory music. So I have ended up to listen to this. To be honest, Xenakis is not that my favorite. Because he feels much more naturalistic than mathematical. Well mathematics is natural though. But I genuinely thank him for these mathematical pitches.