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“I was just a young changeling when I first heard it…alone in your human world. But there, opening night, when the curtain rose and the orchestra swelled... Peer Gynt is a little boy who stumbles into a mountain of trolls. He faces a troll king, who tells him, “To thyself be true and who cares what the world thinks?” But it’s just a play.”
– Nomura, Trollhunters
imagine hearing “hall of the mountian king” for the first time in 1875. the sheer chaos imagine being some norwegian aristocrat and sitting down for a nice day at the symphony and getting your entire wig and life snatched right before your very eyes
“I was just a young changeling when I first heard it…alone in your human world. But there, opening night, when the curtain rose and the orchestra swelled... Peer Gynt is a little boy who stumbles into a mountain of trolls. He faces a troll king, who tells him, “To thyself be true and who cares what the world thinks?” But it’s just a play.”
– Nomura, Trollhunters
the reason Hall of the Mountain King slaps so hard is that if you start listening to it at a volume that isn’t ‘loud enough to blow your speakers out once it gets to the fortissisissimo at the end’ the start of it is so imperceptibly soft that if you’re not using headphones and there’s any substantial ambient bg noise you basically cannot pinpoint when you start hearing it — if you’ve never heard it before you won’t be sure if you’re hearing music or smth else and if you have heard it before it’s so distinctive your mind will remember what it should sound like start and filling in the gaps long before you can actually hear it. which is the ideal ‘entering a mountain cave and not being sure if your ears or imagination are playing tricks on you until you are most absolutely definitely in a king’s hall so mindbogglingly vast and majestic and intimidating that it keeps outpacing your ability to keep up with everything you’re seeing’ effect.
like you CAN cheat this by cranking the volume way up at the beginning and then cranking it back down to a normal setting halfway through but. why would you.
Have anyone ever tried watching Peer Gynt on one half of the screen with your friends on discord, as well as playing Minecraft with them on the other half while all of us are blasting soundboard reactions to every singe line?
That's how it feels to drive a Ford f150