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One Who Tastes Water (2024) for flute and live electronics | composed by Nick Fagnilli
“Today, due to your instruction, I feel like someone who tastes water. Whether it is hot or cold is something we have to find out for ourselves. Lay brother, you are now my teacher.”
This quotation from the Chan Buddhist Platform Sutra reminds me that teacher and student are collaborators together, just as composer and performer can be collaborators. The position of teacher, like the position of composer, is not one of instructive or interpretive authority. The teacher learns from the student like the student learns from the teacher, and the result is discovery of themselves, each other, and their own way of being with the world (not just in it). I do not wish to equate at all a performer to a "student" and a composer to a "teacher" in the way one might ordinarily think about it. But considering that student and teacher both teach and are taught by each other, and considering the ending of the quote "Lay brother, you are now my teacher" makes this comparison more understandable.
A composer brings to a performer a worldview, a universe governed by a selection of ideas, and the interpretive work of the performer in return teaches the composer, and in this communication so uniquely essential to the art of music lies a chance for both to reflect and discover their true natures. The composer provides the water, and the performer must taste find out if the water is hot or cold. The nature of the electronic environment is described in the performance notes, but the flutist must decide how to place each line of music in time and how to use the elements of this environment that are called for, namely, multiple streams of reverbs, looping and/or delay patterns.
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This piece was a happy accident. I was messing around with musical staff roller stamps, and I was able to get a curve going, and I loved the way this made me feel like the music was a running stream. I created my own lines in a text document, printed them out and created a final draft with micron pens.
Yoshi made a very cool expressive choice I would like to point out. They decided to increase the amount of bend and color changes in my indicated bisbigliando, and I thought this was a stroke of genius.
Recorded live, October 7, 2024, Elebash recital hall, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
This quotation from the Chan Buddhist Platform Sutra reminds me that teacher and student are collaborators together, just as composer and performer can be collaborators. The position of teacher, like the position of composer, is not one of instructive or interpretive authority. The teacher learns from the student like the student learns from the teacher, and the result is discovery of themselves, each other, and their own way of being with the world (not just in it). I do not wish to equate at all a performer to a "student" and a composer to a "teacher" in the way one might ordinarily think about it. But considering that student and teacher both teach and are taught by each other, and considering the ending of the quote "Lay brother, you are now my teacher" makes this comparison more understandable.
A composer brings to a performer a worldview, a universe governed by a selection of ideas, and the interpretive work of the performer in return teaches the composer, and in this communication so uniquely essential to the art of music lies a chance for both to reflect and discover their true natures. The composer provides the water, and the performer must taste find out if the water is hot or cold. The nature of the electronic environment is described in the performance notes, but the flutist must decide how to place each line of music in time and how to use the elements of this environment that are called for, namely, multiple streams of reverbs, looping and/or delay patterns.
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This piece was a happy accident. I was messing around with musical staff roller stamps, and I was able to get a curve going, and I loved the way this made me feel like the music was a running stream. I created my own lines in a text document, printed them out and created a final draft with micron pens.
Yoshi made a very cool expressive choice I would like to point out. They decided to increase the amount of bend and color changes in my indicated bisbigliando, and I thought this was a stroke of genius.
Recorded live, October 7, 2024, Elebash recital hall, CUNY Graduate Center, NYC.
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Anastasia Vinogradova: Etude for piano, Op. 35 (2021) | Score video [Harmonic C Tuning]
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Anastasia Vinogradova (b. 1994) has a singularly unique musical voice. Her gift for expertly paced forms and melodies acts as a foil to the harmonies and textures that simultaneously identify her as a Russian composer and as an innovator with regards to listener accessibility to the style. Unlike the writhing irony of Russia's most famous 20th-century composers, Vinogradova's music does not dis...
Accept Cookies (8 Microludes) for flute and prepared piano | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Written for and dedicated to André Solomon linktr.ee/asflutist The flute sound is from UVI's IRCAM chamber instruments plugin. The extended techniques sound great, but the ordinario sound is another matter entirely. Let me know what you think about it on piece no. 7 in this set. The prepared piano is Big Fish Audio's John Cage Prepared Piano. You can very often get a discount on this already pr...
Early draft of "The Ballad of Sam and Sara" (2023) (excerpt)- flute, piano, tape | by Nick Fagnilli
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I started writing this in November 2023, and it has undergone several revisions. It was first a piece for flute and piano, then I added tape, then instead of tape I tried percussion, then I took away the piano and added more percussion... Finally I split the baby and decided that flute and prepared piano was best, as I have Big Fish Audio's John Cage Prepared Piano sampler, and this pairs very ...
Circles for piano (Little Note Book 4) composed by Nick Fagnilli (score video)
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Some commenters mentioned that the Little Note Book microludes could simultaneously be expanded while still working on their own terms. I wanted to push back against this idea, because I wanted to hang onto the feeling that each of the microludes were as complete as possible. But, microlude no. 47, the final in Little Note Book 3, suggested to me a scaffolding for a fully fleshed out work. It w...
Little Note Book 3 (Nos. 32 - 47): microludes for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli (score video)
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Like the Doom Scrolls, I think the Little Note Book will also be four parts, but the fourth part, No. 48, will be one single piece of a reasonable, but still short length. It will be based on the final microlude in this series here. I wonder why? Maybe you can find out by listening.
Little Note Book 2 (Nos. 17 - 31): microludes for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli (score video)
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by the standards I have set these are rather long!
Ceci n'est pas (a rework of Satie's Gymnopédie no. 1) (2023) Composed and performed by Nick Fagnilli
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Buy ceci n'est pas: fagnillious.bandcamp.com/album/ceci-nest-pas Erik Satie and John Cage are embodiments of the same duality. In Satie’s work, Cage found the ample place left for silence and disembodied listening, and in that place first cradled his infamous phrase “I have nothing to say and I am saying it.” Satie was certainly one of Cage’s favorite composers. Cage’s written and dictated rumi...
Little Note Book 1 (Nos. 1 - 16): six-second (or less!) piano pieces by Nick Fagnilli
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You have been watching my six-second microludes more than any other of my pieces! That means that out of everything I have ever written, that is my piece that has been heard by the most people. I would never have guessed! So, TH-cam has told me you want to see the tiniest pieces possible, so I've given you some more!! Here's my follow-up to the Doom Scrolls (really to the microludes in particul...
"Doom Scrolls" bagatelles for piano: Vol. 4 (Nos. 31 - 42) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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This is the fourth and final volume of Doom Scrolls. Please stay tuned for the (self) publication of sheet music books of all 4 volumes! I've noticed my Microludes are getting quite popular, so the future will likely contain more of those, the shorter the better I guess!! Thank you so much for all the support!!
Doom Scrolls 17a: Det er ingen ko på isen - for Eric Svalgård (Frank Zappa hommage) by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls 17a: Det er ingen ko på isen - for Eric Svalgård (Frank Zappa hommage) by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls: Postscript: To Luca Pompilio | composed by Nick Fagnilli (in the style of Chick Corea)
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One more in the style of Chick Corea's Children's Songs, as I find this to be a more fitting ending than a graphic score exploration of Feldman... Luca became my friend because he saw some Doom Scrolls and really enjoyed them, so I am so happy to put a bookend on the set with a shoutout to him, we have lots of overlapping piano and compositional interests and I'm so glad to know Yet Another Fin...
Doom Scrolls No. 42: In Memoriam Morton Feldman (a Projection) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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In the style of his Projections, with a few added parameters, and featuring my best fountian pen recreation of John Cage's calligraphy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - My friends, we have reached the end of the Doom Scrolls... for now. Kind of. I have two more pieces I will be adding to the series, but not going past No. 42, just to add proper tributes to some important people I forgot to...
Doom Scrolls No. 40: and once more… 5 Microludes | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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MANUSCRIPT EDITION!
Doom Scrolls No. 14: In Memoriam Ray Manzarek (of the Doors) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Ray excelled at one pianistic device in particular: parallel 3rds in Dorian mode. So that's what this is. The ending comes from Carmina Burana, which Ray adapted as a rock opera in 1983, produced by Philip Glass.
Doom Scrolls No. 39: Promethead (Hommage à Scriabin) | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 39: Promethead (Hommage à Scriabin) | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 21: In Memoriam Thelonious Monk | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 21: In Memoriam Thelonious Monk | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 7: In Memoriam Chick Corea | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 7: In Memoriam Chick Corea | Bagatelle for piano composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 37: Hommage à Schubert - To Laura Mason
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Doom Scrolls No. 37: Hommage à Schubert - To Laura Mason
Doom Scrolls No. 29: 10 Microludes | 10 six-second piano pieces composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 29: 10 Microludes | 10 six-second piano pieces composed by Nick Fagnilli
Debussy: Canope (Preludes Bk. II No. X) in Wendy Carlos's C Harmonic Tuning | Nick Fagnilli, piano
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Debussy: Canope (Preludes Bk. II No. X) in Wendy Carlos's C Harmonic Tuning | Nick Fagnilli, piano
Doom Scrolls No. 35: Sonata da Scarlatti In Memoriam Greg DeTurck | Composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 35: Sonata da Scarlatti In Memoriam Greg DeTurck | Composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 36: Falling Meatballs (una Tarantella alla Kurtág) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 36: Falling Meatballs (una Tarantella alla Kurtág) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 33: The Sandbox of Time (hommage à Chinary Ung) | piano bagatelle by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 33: The Sandbox of Time (hommage à Chinary Ung) | piano bagatelle by Nick Fagnilli
"Doom Scrolls" Bagatelles for piano: Vol. 3 (Nos. 21 - 30) | Composed by Nick Fagnilli
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"Doom Scrolls" Bagatelles for piano: Vol. 3 (Nos. 21 - 30) | Composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 28: In Memoriam John Lewis (of the Modern Jazz Quartet) Fugue | by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 28: In Memoriam John Lewis (of the Modern Jazz Quartet) Fugue | by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 25: ...des pas dans la boue (après Debussy) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 25: ...des pas dans la boue (après Debussy) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 24 (3 Microludes for György Kurtág) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 24 (3 Microludes for György Kurtág) | composed by Nick Fagnilli
"Doom Scrolls" Bagatelles for piano: Vol. 2 (nos. 11 -20) composed by Nick Fagnilli
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"Doom Scrolls" Bagatelles for piano: Vol. 2 (nos. 11 -20) composed by Nick Fagnilli
Doom Scrolls No. 15: Equal Temperament vs. Wendy Carlos Harmonic Scale | by Nick Fagnilli
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Doom Scrolls No. 15: Equal Temperament vs. Wendy Carlos Harmonic Scale | by Nick Fagnilli
Beautiful! And I loved the art with the music sheet.
killin' it Nick
That's one of your most beautiful pieces ! 💗
For this we must both thank Yoshi.
So magical
This is wonderful - bravi, Anastasia and Nick!!
Cool music, but she was born in Lausanne (Switzerland), and only ever studied in that country all her life, so I find your description of her as a "Russian composer" and your understanding of her work within Russian 20th century tradition quite... funny, to say the least.
@@elpelucagarcia2 I’m aware! I correspond with her often and ran the description by her before posting. Yes she did not study in Russia, but her heritage and influences are Russian. Just look at the other pieces she posts on her own channel. She and I have discussed this multiple times before.
@@nicksgottheaux6445 Fair enough! I didn't know that information about her. I checked out her channel too, I wish there were more real recordings of her work rather than midis. Might give her Solo Cello Sonata a try in the summer, too- Thanks for posting (recording?) her work.
@@elpelucagarcia2 yes, this is my recording of this piece, and in the future, I also want to use my good samples to render some larger works. This is an ongoing project.
feelings I had with this song: agony, macabre things, demons, gore, death, someone is watching me, I will not sleep tonight, bones and flesh alive. Nice song
I hate when people use wrong vocabulary for music...
@@B-eSCH my bad haha, that's what popped into my head and that was exactly the intention, if you didn't understand, forgive my English, God bless you
Pay them no mind! I am glad you had such a strong sensory response to the work!! That is the idea being using a tuning like this. Anastasia loves it and I do too.
A most inspiring work.
Beautifully notated! Can you tell us more about the tuning?
@@coqdorysme each chromatic note up from C is tuned to an upper partial of the C harmonic series. You can check out my videos of my own Doom Scrolls #15 and Prokofiev Visions Fugitives excerpts for more. www.microtonal-synthesis.com/scale_carlos_harmonic.html
She is wonderful!
You are marvellous ! 💗
your work reminds me of Zagny it’s superb and extreme
@@ryacoli what is Zagny?
@@nicksgottheaux6445 Sergei Zagny is a composer…
@@ryacoli very cool! Yes, he and I appear to share an affinity for certain kinds of contexts for an idea.
excellent
superb! I’m amazed and inspired
These are great! It's great to hear other composers embracing the tiny format 😊.
@@klavieronin thank you for your kind words. I subscribed to your channel! You have wonderful works for teaching and many seem very fun to play. Great use of the extended jazzy colors but you are making it uniquely your own.
@@nicksgottheaux6445 Thanks. I look forward hearing more of your music too.
WOW
🤩
This grooves!
And yes, John Adams: this REALLY grooves (unlike your stuff)
@@UtsyoChakrabortyLMAOOOO are you saying im more American than John Adams 😂🇺🇸
@@nicksgottheaux6445 If you go by his f***ed up logic, then sure!
@@UtsyoChakrabortywell Then Toot my Nips and call me Son of Absolute Jest
Indigestement ennuyeux.
@@michelprezman51 let me know how a second listen feels after having some Tums. 👈👈😎
I had such fun imagining myself playing this! 😍
@@UtsyoChakraborty I’ve done more of these since then with students, it’s a fun creative venture. I’ll send you this one, but you could definitely write your own.
Beautiful!
Excellent!
Love this. Reminds me of BOTW’s hurtle castle town music. Great balance of dissonant and consonant harmonies with lovely melodic leaps and jumps to accompany the nature of it.
Bruh tf is this? I like tho
I’m glad! It’s tiny little pieces, the smallest possible feeling of completeness that I could find. The whole idea behind the microludes belongs to György Kurtág, I can’t say enough times how much his work has affected me.
Oh they also all have to do with 5 beats or otherwise 5 rhythmic events, to answer your question in brief, which is really the spirit of the whole thing.
Wonderful!
wow, i am amazed, you have unlimited creativity
@@yat_ii Human creativity is indeed an unlimited resource! The hardest part is seen as how or where to begin, but one must accept that any random choice is going to be as good as a choice you thought about, as far as a first choice goes. As long as you can start somewhere, the real work is making subsequent choices that cause a logic to arise. But removing the anxiety of the first choice was a huge help!
If you notice me, can I have permission of transcribing the microludes on musecore and publishing it, I will give you credit. I want to also transcript all of your little book volumes. If you can you can send the score
@@Teslav2_main no thanks, i engrave and publish my own sheet music! I just happened to upload my manuscript for this one in particular- I did engrave it afterward. I am having the cover for the Doom Scrolls designed right now and then I will release them all as separate volumes. I will also release the Little Note Books as a single volume. I am, however, so honored that you would want to do that! I did not think about uploading these on MuseScore. I’m not really sure if I want to or not, as again, I want to be selling the publications. But if you would like to play them and put them on your channel here, I would really like that!
@@nicksgottheaux6445 I really liked the microludes but thanks for your time
@@Teslav2_main sincerely thank you for the request! I will be considering uploading on MuseScore. Do you often upload pieces by others on there? I don’t really use the social aspect of MuseScore.
Move over Kurtag, you have been replaced
Nobody can replace him!!!! But thank you all the same. I do owe so much inspiration to interacting with his work. He healed me in so many ways.
I like #6 the best. So delicate!
That one has really fascinated me. I put permutations of it in my Little Note Books 1, 2, and 3! Check it out. th-cam.com/play/PL2rG81HiY-eajgnxCdi62SDC0pZKY-AMH.html&si=33QwN4R6voARqnL_
Totally digging these!
So beautiful!
No. 21 is the musical description of the stages of someone’s frustration during piano practice.
Kurtag enters the chat, is scared by his shadow, and scurries away... ;)
you think you are Kurtag or someshit eh
So are you saying you solved music?
No, I’m saying that Reinbert de Leeuw solved this particular piece of music. And I’m saying that I made this particular piece of music into a longer work that explores that truth behind it. th-cam.com/video/FKHuqtVO1js/w-d-xo.htmlsi=basiPKO1Qny5Nh93
What does it mean when there's no stem. If it means free time, then why do some notes have stems?
The pieces are so short that one doesn’t necessarily need to have strict metered time. Kurtág also uses notes without stems, and the way I understand this in his piano music is that we can think of a beat as “taking a beat” in the psychological sense of time as opposed to a metronomic one. But if you do want notes shorter than that, then it does require stems and flags. This system is more organized with regards to Kurtag’s rests than his durations. TLDR the pieces are short so there isn’t a need for the strictest time, and when they aren’t short it is done so that the player can feel freed from a strict sense of time. I would recommend you check out some of Kurtag’s Jatekok and my Doom Scrolls no. 32 (in volume 4) for more.
Nick can write Shostakovich op. 34 preludes but Shostakovich can never Doom Scrolls: 10 microludes
Now that is one hell of a comment to wake up to! I’m absolutely beaming. Thanks so much!
@@nicksgottheaux6445 THE DOOM SCROLLS ARE SO GOOD I SENT THEM TO LIKE 3 OF MY FRIENDS!! I think they'd be very esoteric miniatures that beats Czerny exercises any day :)))
@@phenylalanine7392 well thank you again!! I hope you enjoy all the rest of them and sheet music books will be out soon!
Fun vibe
lovely! it reminds me of the disintegration loops.
Absolutely! I’m so honored to be compared to that! 🤩
Tagging for self reference: 4:48
I did upload no. 35 by itself! th-cam.com/video/OaDWPKaaHUo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=A2dGIewUvzNo7IIx
Those of you who are fans of my microludes and miniatures, check out the sixth movement at 31:32.
I love it! Just like full length movements, they work on their own as well as together, all within 6 seconds. Nice job!
You’ve got it exactly! Thanks for watching. I hope you saw my other sets as well! This is my follow up to my first set of 6 second microludes, and I have other sets as well. You know what I’ll just make a playlist!
th-cam.com/play/PL2rG81HiY-ebhZ95OnNoEqwKIrBLwTX05.html&si=YcMF_ogkCQAREdqj
Thought I just completed my duolingo at 0:15 Been loving these Doom Scrolls dude!!
Ugh I read this in your voice. I miss you! I don’t know the duolingo sound bank but I do know they’re going to expand into music education soon!
One of the greatest casualties of World War I was classical music.
The less music made for nationalism the better! The nature of existence and time is to change. If you want some longer and more standard sounds you can look at some of the other doom scrolls! Maybe you would like my nos. 35 (Sonata da Scarlatti) and 37 (Hommage a Schubert). Not sure why this one is getting attention but I’m happy for it. There’s no need to be so wild as to say there’s no good music after 1915, especially since Pierrot Lunaire is from 1912! 🤩 I’ve even got a fugue in here dude! It’s the one right before this one! Be not afraid 👁️👄👁️
This is cool! I loooove piano pieces that have this sound. This year for a competition I sang a song called Moonfall (from The Mystery of Edwin Drood) and this kind of reminded me of it, I love minor chords ☺️
Man I am so glad to have found this channel your music is exceptional!
Thank you so much!! Please stay tuned for the sheet music books!
Number 7 is incredible like woah!!! Also Vine is my Orchestration prof at the Sydney Con if you ever want to reach out 👍
Hahaha, Carl Vine?? I love him! But the description refers to the old app Vine, where the videos couldn't be longer than 6 seconds. Still, that would be cool to talk to him!
How did you make debussy worse??? He was already bad enough...
Wow you hate Debussy? Opinion discarded. I’m so happy to piss you off! 😊
Cool stuff. You can definitely build technique with 2 bar finger busters. Extremizing chunk learning.
TWO. BAR. FINGER. BUSTERS!!! What a title!! I'll have to try that and credit you. I definitely have one of those in my microludes set of Doom Scrolls No. 40! Check it out. th-cam.com/video/0WHMdUwCvkQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_f8916rZaVQpo4y7
mmm yes, quite 🍷