When you play two separate songs at the same time, it typically ends up as a clusterfuck although occasionally you find odd moments that seem to complement each other.
Has any musician ever attempted to exploit the brain's difficulty in keeping track of two songs? What if you had, one in the left ear channel and one in the right, two songs which - despite significantly contrasting in sound and maybe in time signature - were carefully composed and designed to counter each other in specific ways, so that the listening experience became about the in-between navigating of the two pieces? Would this open up a new dimension of music?
The closest thing I can think of is Zaireeka by Flaming Lips, but that was like four separate pieces of a complete song that you had to play at once.
Also I swear that's the Chad from Rooster Teeth in that picture.
AnCo did this with "bat you'll fly"
There's two sets of vocals playing in both channels at once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qPfyoPV7AA
Also VU kinda did this on "the gift" where the instruments are in one channel and the speaker in the other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-YiaWDgB4
The vinyl of Analogue Bubblebath 3 has two tracks combined called ".0180871", one in the left channel and one in the right. They were separated on the CD version, so you can find them here man:
Left channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtv6qVWNlj8
Right channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7P7PCw_vVI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14faEPytCw
Note the two conductors.