How Digital Circus's Music Makes You Uncomfortable (feat. Evan Alderete) 

the void theme being played both forwards *and* backwards really emphasizes the idea that it's a place without beginning or end

“Your New Home” is a prime example of how to capture the mental state of a character without explicitly stating it. Words cannot express how successful that track is at eliciting the same feelings in the viewer that Pomni was experiencing on screen. It did exactly what it set out to do and I’m not surprised it’s blown up as an audio on social media.

Listening to Evan Alderete give really insightful commentary on the making of the OST while Cadence Hira draws big chungus Jax is peak entertainment

Side note: let’s also give respect to Gooseworx herself, for trying to keep a clean fandom

I lost it, when she drew the Big Chungus shape

4:59 The cut back to what you were drawing dealt psychic damage

the song that plays in the void was so intense and majestic no one talks about it 😭

Your MS Painting got me locked in like a subway surfers video

The use of the "Twin Peaks technique" is so effective and fitting, just incredible how polished every aspect of the show is. God I wish I could watch it for the first time again.

« There’s also a fat 808 there » is my favourite music notation

the grandiosity of the orchestra feel overwhelming which fits the existential dread of the characters and setting. Also the goofier circus music feel like it's mocking the characters as they go insane

To heck with the cow bell. I need more wood block!

At 13:52 yes the chord progression is recognizable as the same ones heard in Pachelbel’s Canon, but the true name of the progression is a common schematic trope called the Romanesca!

The language of music theory goes right over my head, but it's cool to hear professionals talk about this in such detail nonetheless. I hadn't consciously noticed the "closing maw" effect in Your New Home, that was particularly cool to see laid out! Also you've got a lot of respect from me for correctly recognizing that Kinger is, in fact, underrated. I love that goofball.

The melody that was used for the creation of both TADC's theme and Your New Home is one, if not the best melody I have ever heard and is my favorite.

I'm not sure it's part of any music theory, but something about the main theme I had noticed that I found really cool is a soft ticking noise in the background. It really emphasises the feeling of being trapped. Hearing the clock tick and being incredibly aware of time passing despite not being able to change anything about being stuck in the digital circus. I feel like it really displays the horrors of the characters and the feeling of being trapped. Thanks Goose and Evan for this fantastic soundtrack!

Great video! Thanks Cadence and Evan!

I *knew* it sounded like snipperclips. HUGE props for how well that style is emulated.

When they started drawing big chungus jax i think i lost it

The newer song "Somebody Real" Is amazing, and similar to the void one in my opinion, except it is a little more hopeless.

The feeling I get from the soundtrack is it never lets you settle into familiarity or anything you can dance to, thus causing discomfort and putting you on edge. It's oddly fitting because there's a never-ending sense of "what am I missing/not being told?" in the pilot. I ofc don't know if the invocation of discomfort throughout is supposed to be borderline nauseating, but if they were aiming for that, they did well and definitely showed they know what they're doing. Bravo!

shoutout to you drawing The Pom in the background

I am happy to tell you that they now have a kinger plushie

thank you for helping me with my withdrawl of sideways videos

I never thought of the TADC theme song to use the Canon Chord Pattern. It's so fascinating to lean about this.

8:56 i love that effect and was wondering how they did it! cool!

Honestly this really describes my thoughts. And it's also why it's frustrating how this fanbase is mostly people who don't understand it.

fantastic analysis and awesome that you could bring Evan in for an interview! as a side note, big chungus jax will haunt my dreams

The TADC main theme and Pachelbel’s Canon in D mashup was extremely cursed. I love it! Thanks for a great video!

"Welcome to the Show" sounds JUST like a bo en track i stfg they did their homework

15:25 Reprise is pronounced like that?! I thought it was pronounced "re-prize".

Your New Home is my absolute favorite. It will always give me goosebumps. Really cool to hear the theory behind all the music in TADC, it all makes sense why the show hits so different!

9:53 I'm assuming midnight from Prokofiev's Cinderella

This was such a great video!! Indie stuff needs to get more attention in ways like this. There is so much we can learn from but only very few people seem to actually care :(

Mr. Alderete and Gooseworx are EXTREMELY Talented composers. If I could have even half as much skill at music as these two have I would be set for life

11:21 I KNEW IT!! I'm so happy to hear that confirmed because every time I hear the Void's theme it reminds me of the intro to Midsomar, and yeah Reborn especially the ending part.

3:44 something i want to say about the part where they found an abstracted kaufmo, the piece of music that plays when they reveal kaufmo gave me heavy Pikmin 3 vibes, when the armoured mawdad (the first boss) gets revealed.

As a person who’s been in band for 7+ years and is slowly starting to get into music theory, composition, and looking into getting a minor in composition along with a major in animation, seeing this is just getting me into total geek-out mode, with scoring, instrument selection, and looking at the transposed score is just the perfect bow on top. Wonderful video overall, and I’m so excited to see what Evan and Goose cook up next 😎

I learned today that some people think the music in tadc is unsettling. I just think it sounds fun and grandiose.

Holy cow, this is amazing! Thank you! This deserves at least 1 million views!

Hi! This is an amazing video, and "Your New Home" is one of my new favorite tracks. I've had music theory training, and have been composing for several years now. That penultimate chord is a special flavor of diminished or dominant chord thanks to the G and Db notes in there. It could be interpreted as 2 different chords. It could be B dim b6 add 9, but that would require some enharmonic respellings. The other chord (which is the one I prefer), is G7add b5 in first inversion to account for the B in the bass. It's a dominant-functioning chord that still allows for the chromatic step-wise movement in both the high and low voices.

I quite liked this, as both a music producer and a fan of Digital Circus myself. Some of the tracks in the new episode really reminded me a bit of Kane Pixels with its eerie emotion-neutral synths and chaotic wind sound when Gummigoo was having his existential crisis

comments, we need to find this Prokofiev piece…

I didn't know about Digital Circus but the music is amazing

Lets not forget that she used the weezeer riff at the end of the main melody! (Genious idea btw)

19:20 I think the chord progression changes from moving up in 3rds, like you pointed out, into a 9-8 suspension with a hint of B Dorian in that rising scale (and raised ^2 scale degree: Bnat) in the baritone line. Even though Goose isn't traditionally trained it's a pretty neat trick

I love seeing how music us made and how different instruments can give different vibes to different songs The toy piano sound can give ether a sinister or a nostalgic feeling depending on its use, the sinister vibe of this song is helped by the toy piano while in songs like Lemons and Pears (by EDU) it can help give a slightly nostalgic tone

I don't know what it is about that flat note on the third measure, but it makes me feel some kind of way I can't describe. Like, the whole song kinda makes me feel comfortable and a bit nostalgic but that note makes me feel... something I can't describe. Like I'm playing a game I love for the last time. Like I'm giving my kid a hug before he goes off to college.

13:16 That lovely Neapolitan chord!

I'm gonna say this first: I did not like the short at all. But that score... oh my god that fucking score. It's beautiful and is the reason I keep coming back to it. I hope to make music that sounds just like it.

Great video! That going nowhere excerpt really is something. I hadn’t heard of this animation until this video

14:04 everywhere ITS CANON EVERYWHERE

You probably already know this by now, but KINGER HAS A PLUSHIE NOW WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Calum bowen goes crazy with his soundtracks!!! All of his stuff is so silly and goofy. Absolutely love him, and goose and evan!!!

the way you used the word isekai as a verb 👌

BO EN MENTIONED OMG

best part of the show is how it has perfectly encapsulated 2013 tumbler humor

A new sub from me, interesting techniques used. Keep up the great work!

the only proper way to watch this is with the ost in the background

I like how the void went full 2001 Space Odyssey/ Mission to Mars.

hahaha gangles troll face mask ahahahahaaa

how TADC's music DOESN'T make me uncomfortable

when he mentioned colin stetson's Reborn i literally pumped my fist in the air i fuckin love that guys work

lol ragatha in the background is looking devious

They have officially made a plushie for Kinger. I was about to start making my own bootleg... I'm gonna do that anyway so I can have 2

love the troll face at 14:52

Wait... this is so well orchestrated... O_o... I didn't notice the first time XD

oh, like the train that ran backwards. very cool

Bootleg Kinger Plushie ftw, perfectly cut scream included, nice!

When listening to "Welcome to the show" I get a sort of 8/8 feel instead of 4/4, split into 3-3-2. I can't quite explain why, but given that I play rhythm games that tend to prefer 8/8 over 4/4 (Konga Conga Kappa from Crypt pf the Necrodancer, which is 8/8 silencing every 8th beat, and pretty much most tracks in Rhythm Doctor), I think my brain naturally looks to that indtead of the more common 4/4

I always forgot how close this song is to Sniperclips 1:50

immediately rewatching this after getting emotional (and music theoretical) shocks by the OST of ep2

I KNEW I heard some Prokofiev! mr Evan Alderette this is the channel of music nerds we do care

9:10 Just realized that the technique Evan used here conveyed the bombrush of emotions and yet emptiness that is: the void. At least that's my take, emotions left emotionless. Like you want more, but you're stuck drifting outwardly as your previous actions are replayed over the original - represented by both sound & animation with the warpiness of the void

13:55 This is so cool, but also feels so incredibly cursed. I hate it and I love it!

the theme will always sound like the buddy holly lick

I KNEW GOING NOWHERE HAD SOME REBORN INSPIRATIONS!!!!

“THE BACKROOMS?!”

Great video, thank you!

You should totally do one of these on Murder Drones if you haven’t already

I hate myself so much because I'll never make a series as successful as this

I FUCING NO IT SOUNDED LIKE SNIPPERCLIPS! IM NOT INSANE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

going nowhere is the most beautiful music I have ever heard, and I really mean that.

WOOODBLOOOOCK!!!!!!!!

Bo En mentioned, huge

The naruto music in the end with upbeat tempo killed me

Some of the tracks gets more creepy the more you analyze it.

Well you got tour plush

episode 2 was even better

Poggers kinger plushie wow

Do they use FL Studio? I feel like I recognize some of the instruments when you isolated them... or did you recreate them with FL Studio?

Huh, so both main and the ending theme were Mario references? Nice lol. I didn't catch that with the ending. For the main theme, when I kept playing it in the good ol' brain radio, it would annoyingly keep changing to that one Mario animation with Hyadain singing lyrics to the first stage in Super Mario World. Also Kinger indeed best character I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking that.

5:20 Ooooh, I wanna hear this! What timestamp is it?

20:30 probably 365 other people already said it but hahe they head your prayers

20:50 kingachad

This music theory vid is awesome but i had to pause and stop when i saw you drawing big chungus jax

The circus songs sound a lot like 3DS games

Is it just me or is it that yall didn't even hear most of the music cuz I never noticed some of them

Ag, im early to a video this time : )

Yet everyone ignores the HfjONE OST...