Leonhart comments on Slava! - Less Wrong

30 [deleted] 03 October 2010 02:47AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (103)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Leonhart 03 October 2010 12:32:30PM 1 point [-]

Seconded. The more obscure Ar Tonelico was also good at this (the game's magic system involved singing complicated choiral pieces that were both hymns of praise to, and deliberate invocations of program code on, the world-computer that basically was the setting. Some of the characters had been doing this for a very long time.)

Comment author: sketerpot 03 October 2010 10:16:20PM *  0 points [-]

I'll second the recommendation: some of the music from the Ar Tonelico series is remarkably good stuff, and I listen to it regularly. Most of it could be used as sacred music, easily.

The one problem with the Ar Tonelico music is that it's hard to get a large group of people to sing it, because the harmony is too tricky for untrained singers. My favorite sacred music is the hardcore religious Christmas carols, when sung in a simple form by a group of ordinary people. It's a hell of a lot more fun than any professional rendition of those songs, with the exception of Sufjan Stevens, who really gets it.