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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2024
- www.samwumusic.com/mass-transit
i. network architecture [0:04]
ii. garden city [2:39]
iii. airport express [5:02]
iv. night skyline [7:26]
v. interchange station [10:25]
"Mass Transit" is inspired by Shanghai’s metro system- an elaborate network of lines, trains, tunnels / overpasses, and interchange stations. Each movement explores a facet of the subway network: the elegance of optimizing a system map, the variety of connections available in the city (gardens, airports, skyscrapers), and the complexities of multi-layered interchanges, where up to four lines converge. The piece as a whole is also envisioned as a musical “voyage;” the train stops briefly to take in the sights, before resuming its journey onward.
Tianyu Liu, Russell Iceberg, violins
Aditi Prakash, viola
Claire Kim, cello
Stephen Joven-Lee, piano
Presented on the Gamper Festival for Contemporary Music, as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival in July of 2022.
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This is incredible, Sam! Gorgeous but not saccharine, and so many lovely textures! I love how you color the pauses throughout: with piano resonance, a single sustained harmonic, a molto vib. pizz ringing, etc. Very classy.
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Fellow composer here. Absolutely breathtaking. Glad this showed up on my recommended. This would be great for a short film or documentary of sorts. I mostly do neo romantic as I teach orchestra. So my favorite composers are Liszt, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky and Brahms.
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Wonderful piece of music. In someways this reminds me of Shostakovich string quartet no. 8 and Ravel's String quartet. At the same time it's giving the feeling of Steve Reich's Different trains. The transit system can be definitely heard from this sophisticated piece of music. The special techniques of the strings felt natural and in the right places. Greetings from Finland✌
Thank you for listening and your kind words! One of my favorite composers is Sibelius, and I really look forward to visiting Finland one day :)
Beauty in blurred boundaries indeed! Well done!❤
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Such a splendid work! How delicate and lyrical it is! I love this beautiful small piece.
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found this about a day ago... it's absolutely incredible. the way the chords just kind of come together is so wonderful.
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Wonderful and beautiful. I could truly see the city as I listened.
Thank you for listening and your kind words! I am frequently inspired by cities--in fact I aspired to be an architect when I was kid :)
This was really great from start to finish! I have not yet visited Shanghai but I liked how the piece captures both the frenzy of the metro system and the tender moments of the garden and viewing the skyline.
Thank you for listening and your kind words! It's definitely a city worth visiting--let me know if you need food recs :D
Woooow!! That's very beautiful. It sounds like a gem in the world of music. Nice work!
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Really impressive work. I love the energy and the feeling of voyage and adventure. Thanks for sharing
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This is absolutely incredible! It’s all brimming with soul, beauty, space, and it gets so groovy! Consider me a big fan, congratulations.
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Amazing music. Please please put it on Spotify some day 🙏🙏🙏
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This is my new favorite piece of music
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Wonderful piece, and masterful compositional skills!
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Sam, thanks for the ride. All I can say, I was moved and waited for the next wonderful turn. Beautiful. Bravo.
Thank you for joining us on the train!
Sam, I remember appreciating the premiere of this piece at the 2022 Bowdoin and enjoying it a lot. It recalls the memories back then :) So glad that many people love your music!!
Thank you Younje!! Hope all is well in Germany :)
oh my god. wow. just wow. amazing
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This is beautiful, I love the texture and the play of momentum.
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absolutely stunning use of harmonic contrast and story telling, well done keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for listening and your kind words! I definitely feel music is all about story telling :)
I really like this-nicely done, Sam. (Amazing performers!)
Thank you for listening and your kind words! Yes I am so blessed to have worked with them (Tianyu Liu, Russell Iceberg, Aditi Prakash, Claire Kim, Stephen Joven-Lee)!
This video needs MORE VIEWS NOW
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absolutely beautiful piece
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Wonderful composition. Thanks for sharing
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this is so beautiful , full of colors , amazing !
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beautiful piece ! I love it !!!
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whoa this is phenomenal!!
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This is 🔥
Thank you!!
Spectacular! Will the score be available for purchase?
Thank you for listening and your kind words! Yes--please email me at samwu1010@gmail.com. Unfortunately I haven't found the time to set up an online store through my website :)
Sublime contemporary music. Thank you for sharing your talent and artistry with us. Both you and Takashi Yoshimatsu are such a pleasure to listen to.
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Marvelous composition 😍
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WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT RIGHT DO YOU HAVE SOUNDING THIS GOOD??? THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!
Aha thank you--you're too kind!
Such a delicate and intricate music, tasteful, apart, sensitive, humane, organic, to the end more and more energetic and electrifying. I love it a lot!
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Beautiful
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Thanks a lot for sharing your awesome music!
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I liked this so much! First time hearing one of your compositions... Congratulations! Beautiful and ingenious piece!
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This is great, with a lot of minimalist figures. Many subtleties.
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@@SamWuMusic you’re welcome, sir.
Very beautiful and dreamy
Thank you for listening and your kind words! Love using "dreamy" as a tempo indication :)
@@SamWuMusic because it's trully dreamy it's Naturally indicatian tempo because me too composer
gorgeous
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You made me feel passionate about music once again.
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awesome
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depicts ambience really well
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Hey, this just popped up in my recommended videos. We were bunkmates (cabin-mates?) at Interlochen one Summer! Glad to see that you're still going strong. Lush and evocative composition you've got here. Hope all is well!
Thank you Phil; great to hear from you!! How are you? Where are you based now? Wonderful memories from Interlochen--13 years ago wow!
beautiful piece with equally beautiful titles… damn
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WOW! This is wonderful. Your voice deserves to be heard!
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I’m in school for concert light design, your compositions are phenomenal, I love to experiment with different color ideas as the song progresses.
That'd be super cool!! I love thinking about ways visuals can intersect with the music :)
This showed up on my feed while I'm on the train in Boston headed to class during a summer music composition program 😆 really gorgeous work
Thank you for listening! Good luck at your summer program :) Who are the teacher(s) if I may ask?
@@SamWuMusic Thank you! It's at Longy school of music and involves the Longy faculty plus guest composers Chen Yi and Marti Epstein
Awesome! I love their music; I hope you have an inspiring time there!
@@SamWuMusic Thank you so much!
What a wonderful way to start my day, thank you for this brilliant upload.
Thank you Sam!
what an accomplishment! The shades of Ornstein's piano quintet are there to my ears but are you've captured something wholly special and unique here.
Thank you for listening! I'm not familiar with the Ornstein, so I look forward to checking it out :)
69/10, very nice harmonies there. 👍
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Woah!! This is breathtaking!!!
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Wow true beauty ❤
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Breathtakingly orchestrated and performed. Bravi!!
Thank you for listening Luc! One of my favorite pieces of advice is from Jennifer Higdon, who said "chamber music should be orchestrated as if it's a work for orchestra". I still think about this often!
wow this was very beautiful .
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Shout out to the Holy Algorithm for making me meet on my walk of life your otherwordly work(s)… I’m a self-taught 17-years-old composer (and violinist since I was three), your music is a greatest inspiration for me
Thank you for your kind words! I also started out as a violinist--wishing you the best on your composition journey :)
just discovered your music, much too late. this is great stuff
Thank you! No worries--I haven't been as mindful of keeping up with uploading / social media in general until recently as well :) Case in point, this piece is from 2+ years ago!
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Please make this with more transit systems! :')
Thank you! One for every city :)
Very fantastic voice you have
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lovely
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This would be amazing in Cities:Skylines 2 😂 Perfection ❤
Thank you!! Cities Skylines 1 (and Mini Metro) helped me get through the pandemic lockdowns!
Tremendo!
Grazie!
Something about music about transit that rly kills it.
Sufjan Steve’s the bqe also has this vibe
Both this and that are tremendous:)
Thank you for listening; I am definitely a transit nerd as well! John Adams' "Road Movies" and "Hallelujah Junction" are some of my favorite examples of transit-music.
@@SamWuMusic different trains also hits too!!!!
Such a meaningful work!
would love to be able to listen to this on spotify :)
I'll look into it! In the meantime, the same recording is on my SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/Z9RiotJvxXJUy4rL8
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This shit here is underrated as fuck
Holy shit what a great piece ❤
Thank you for listening Marco! 😂
Music like anime so beautiful and romantic
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This was absolutely breathtaking…I was completely captivated during the piece’s entire 12-minute run. Which composers would you cite as your influences because I love this style!!
Thank you for listening and your kind words! Some of my favorite composers: Sibelius (his 6th symphony is so underrated and underperformed), Ravel (Le Tombeau de Couperin is one of my favorite pieces), John Adams (particularly his 1980s works), and Chinese composers Tan Dun and Qigang Chen (I'd describe as Ravel, but more "dusty" in hue).
@@SamWuMusic Will have to check out Tan Dun as I’m not familiar with his music. I’m a huge fan of the other composers you listed though and their influences are definitely felt
I'd recommend Tan's Academy Award-winning score to "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," as well as his "Concerto for Orchestra" and "Death and Fire: a Dialogue with Paul Klee."
huge yoshimatsu vibes
Thank you for listening! Definitely a fan of his music :)
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Very nice! Were you inspired by copeland?
Not specifically, but I definitely love a lot of his music!
the last note pianist 😭
😂😂 in all fairness it’s a sea of repeating notes in the strings; hard to count!
@@SamWuMusic yeah no real shade to the pianist, the performance was amazing and brilliantly written!
Thank you!! all good 😊
leaving a comment for the algorithm because this is absolutely surreal :)
Thank you for listening; you're too kind!
Algorithm brought me here, this is beautiful, I love it!
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Hi Brandon :)
Beautiful
Thank you!
gorgeous
Thank you!