Porter Robinson - dullscythe (Official Music Video)

someone left a comment on the other video saying that "it sounds like a song that desperately wants to exist but doesn't know how" and I absolutely LOVE that

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the Art Block Experience™ as portrayed by dullscythe: 0:00 randomly pressing notes/ideas and comes across an interesting random beat 0:09 plays beat one more time and tries continuing the rhythm 0:20 undo/s the change and goes back to original beat and changing up the volume 0:29 redo/s the change but keeps the volume 0:40 tries adding onto the track but gets stuck on playing with 2 notes 0:43 gets tired of the repetition and moves on to different instruments but the beats sound the same/wrong 0:57 gets frustrated and forces loud instruments, more apparent in 1:07 and 1:12 1:14 catches a glimpse of euphoria / good idea 1:19 the idea gets lost and tries to force loud instruments again to make it come back 1:25 good idea comes back but gets drowned by the other beats 1:39 realization of why you're not satisfied 1:45 a small burst of euphoria 1:49 creativity juice / energy runs out 1:53 plays the first beat one last time before sleeping (notice the fade out into dream orchestra) 2:13 dream orchestra, incoherent, but makes sense in a dream (plus the faint instrumental in bg) 2:39 waking up 2:45 the new notes aren't anything special but everything feels fresh 3:04 learning to accept what you've made as it is / euphoria 3:26 moving on to new projects 3:47 the job is done but the thought still lingers and ripples in your head you can translate this to other stuff like drawing or writing but i decided to stick close to music. btw i love every single second of this <3

porter's pc blue screen of death'd and he was like "holy shit this goes hard"

This song feels like the audio version of being stuck with writers block for it to finally clear and you can begin to see the picture again

This track is criminally underrated

People who didn't listened the entire thing, missed the beautiful harmony in the end

This song is like an Abstract Painting

someone's GPU must've been crying while rendering this

Porter Robinson: hears glitching sound effect Porter Robinson: Thats a good song Me: he’s not wrong

Dullscythe is such a fitting name for a song like this, as a scythe is a tool used to harvest crops and therefore, bring life. I like to think the metaphor of a "dull scythe" means feeling frustrated and limited by your tools and/or your surroundings. This song follows a journey through struggle, just like trudging on through a dark tunnel when you can't yet see the light.

thank you Porter for not making this an “exclusive NFT” lol

i love this

This song starts off with different notes being played all over the place just like how you start off life trying different things here and there. You can hear the melody sometimes in the first half but it's brief and never lasting. In life, you'll do something and think you've found your path, but it doesn't last and you're stuck trying something else again. But eventually, you'll find what you've been searching for and that's when the melody finally settles in and the song is fully realized. The visualizer shows this well going from static to moving, dynamic images. I hope everyone in the 1st half of the song in their life gets to the 2nd half soon!

Learned about this through a comment that said that the intro of Deltarune’s “Until Next Time” reminded them of this song. I’m really happy I saw that comment because it led me to this. ☺️

This visualizer is so cool. I will be honest, Dullscythe isn't my favorite, just because in my mind I expect the melody to eventually come through in some sweeping way instead of staying fragmented. But it grows on me every time I listen to it, and who knows, in a while it might be one of my top songs from the album. That's what's so cool about music, especially Porter's. You can listen to it again and again and new things start to come through that you couldn't hear before.

Even in a Song that literally has no Rythm until the middle you can feel how Porter poured his Soul into it. One of my 14(15) favourites from Nurture.

Yeah one of the most interesting and unique song in nurture album and also one of my favorite song in nurture

2:08 I burst into tears at this part, I've always loved it so, s o much. I love how chaotic the beginning of this song is, the way more and more instruments and harmony keep being added every passing second until the song reaches its finest at this exact minute, finally becoming an actual melody. I was unsure when it first released, since I used to think this song was way too abstract, just like Wind Tempos. But that opinion I had about both of them has completely faded since the second replay. The more I listen to Dullscythe, the more attached I feel to it and understand its meaning. This idea of progression, of not only showing you how such a rough track can be perfected little by little but also of even making you appreciate said mess after listening to it several times is so inspiring and can be applied to many aspects of life. I got so excited when Porter announced this visualizer video some days ago on Twitter, I would never have expected he'd actually make one for this! I saved it as soon as it came out and I've finally had enough time to watch it today. All kinds of ideas have browsed my mind everytime I've listened to this song before, little animatics like the ones I keep daydreaming with every other Porter track or any of my favourite songs in general. And it's impressive how close this video actually is to what I've always had in mind until now (and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what's helped the tears come out this time haha). No matter how many times I listen to Dullscythe, Get Your Wish, Something Comforting, Mirror, Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do, Look at the Sky, Trying to Feel Alive and the rest of Nurture's songs, watch their respective videos and hear Porter's explanations of each one, they'll never cease to amaze me. I'm so happy to have discovered Porter and his music, to being able to connect this much to it, to have had the chance to visit Secret Sky online that one day among many others, to have had the chance to listen to Porter talk about the origin of my favourite Nurture songs in his streamings and his Secret Sky tweets... I'm just so, so happy and thankful. Porter has changed my life completely, his music has helped me a lot during my darkest times, and whenever I listen to it I always remember how much I actually want "to feel alive". In the same way that Dullscythe develops its own melody second by second until becoming something listenable, Nurture, other artists' music and many other things have been helping me feel healthier and more complete throughout the years. Now I realize how, at the end of the day, life is just a song in constant development, and our goal is to turn this initial, loud noise into a pleasant, happy melody. If you've reached this point, thank you so much for reading!! I've never written such a long and honest comment here, and I wasn't even planning to, but I couldn't help myself in the end haha. But I'm glad I've let all of these emotions out. Whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever your current situation is, I hope you have a wonderful day/night, and remember how valid you are! The fact that you're listening to a song like this and that you've had enough interest to read my comment already shows how amazing and sensitive you are. I hope you get all of your wishes!💙💚☁