Portal "Self-Esteem Fund" OST +1hr Loop

Funny how so many musicians try their hardest to capture the feeling of loneliness through music, yet Kelly Bailey was able to do it with no words and like, 3 instruments.

A u d i b l e l o n l i n e s s

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people keep saying this is “audible isolation” or “death and nothingness”, but to me its what you hear when you’re crushed between 2 portals edit: holY SHIT ITS BEEN LIKE 2 YEARS STOP LIKING THIS PLEASE

This is what it feels like to be isolated in space.

The music itself is not depressing. This song is able to put you in a contemplative mood, to really slow you down and make you stop checking your cellphone for facebook notifications. It slows everything down, and just like anything else that makes you reflect, it uncovers what's already there. I mean, the notes are in a minor scale so it sounds sad, but the song itself is only going to uncover whats in us. Turns out people who play and enjoy videogames are often sad, or hollow (including myself) EDIT: I re read this comment and it's stupid as shit. Disregard it

To me, this is what "Cold" sounds like.

I'm having some kind of nostalgic vibe on my brain, it feels... depressing.

Audible Depression

This song makes me feel how Chell feels. Chell feels she is stuck in this series of test chambers and she doesn’t know what to do. The fact that soon she is gonna face a giant robot doesn’t help her. She sits there with no end to this loneliness.

Reading through most of the comments sums it all up to two words - Audible Isolation. And that is ironicaly the main theme of portal, of ironicaly genius author...

Y’all: lonely Me: needs something to fall asleep to while I’m hyperfixating on portal

Even silence is screaming

God this is the most depressing music I've ever heard.

if you thought that portal was a cute game with cake and puzzles and companium cubes. then you are 100% wrong this song really fits portal it is also the only one that fits.

This music really shows us how cold and dark the Portal-Half Life universe really is. Chell isolated in a series of test chambers and Gordon Freeman isolated in Black Mesa, Xen and City 17. It really captivates the feeling of slowness and contemplation. The moment in Portal 2 when you accidentally fall into the depths of the old laboratory gives us the exact feeling that this music does. Helpless, all alone in the deep, god knows how far down, in a huge caves, inside of huge spherical chambers suspended in the air. It really does show both sides of the universe, Gordon fighting the entire world and off-world creatures in isolation, and Chell trying to escape a dark, cold and isolated facility, deep underground. One game gives you a sense of action while the other gives you the sense of loneliness. It’s a very complicating and weird way of showing how this music makes me feel but, that’s the entirety of it.

This track makes me think about paradoxes - puzzles with no solution... And how little we know about this world...

When you listen to this, it sounds like reality has just been unveiled before you. Like your entire life is a lie. Like reality itself is a lie. What you thought was life, no longer exists. You are stripped of emotion. Emotion was artificial. And your mere existence is a lie. You are just adrift in this empty gray void... That's what I think of.

I feel so alone when I hear this

Congratulations, you’ve successfully destroyed all time and creation, you merely exist in the void. Now would be a good time to think about what you’ve done.