Comparing it to nails on chalkboard would be understating how irritating that soundtrack is.
I actually kind of loved it. It wouldnāt have been the same without that uncomfortable music.
I think it was just āavant,ā no ājazz.ā
(EDIT: Not meant as a snarkā¦ I really donāt hear any connection to jazz.)
I think it is jazz, but I wouldnāt know how to describe the category. Avant garde Jazz is actually a category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde_jazz I always thought this type of work was called experimental jazz, but Iāve never studied music.
I would put this in the avant jazz category, though an argument could be made for this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz category.
Had an interesting thought. Is Luke Vibertās Dischordzilla from Stop The Panic a reference to this music? Good Halloween music, in any case.
This sounds more like what I would call academic music, if thatās what weāre going to talk about here. The violinist is definitely classically trained. It is the sort of music that comes out of university music departments. āWay out thereā in some mid-western sense. This was the era of Lamont Young and Terry Riley. So ārealā avant garde music did not sound like this. āFreeā Jazz would be entirely improvised and would strictly avoid any resemblance to normal music. This sound like āseriousā musicians having a lark.
Also, I started at UCLA in 1974. So I think I can say with some authority that people did in fact, wear shoes at all times on campus during this period.
Well, it isnāt Zorn or Stockhausen, neither is it Davis. Not quite difficult music, definitely not Kenny G. The boundaries are soft in these arbitrary categories.
And some of my earliest memories are walking on UCLA campus with my dad in 1971 - I may have been barefoot! 
Thatās what I mean. It doesnāt sound like ārealā avant garde. It sounds like someone playing at avant garde, and not very seriously. I wish I had that music id app. I am sure it is from a record. There is a lot of music at that divide. I have heard it played by the best and can unequivocally say that, in my opinion, it sucks as a variety of expression. Disneyfied expressionism.
Shazam tells me it is Henk Badingsā Capricio for Violin and two sound tracks.
wiki says: āA prolific artist, he had produced over a thousand pieces at the time of his death. He died in Maarheeze in 1987.ā
On second listen it is not so bad. Maybe a bit of cliche because of its age. First strains are just too damn familiar.
I donāt hear any samples, but this has Wagon Christ written all over it. Iād be dammed if Luke didnāt sample Henk Badings at some point. Sounds awfully familiar.
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