Brilliant pieces, and wonderful pianist! I have discovered Unsuk Chin through a composer friend, and really love her music. These pieces just bring out wonderful sonorities and layers in the piano. Her pieces have a definite structure and ideas. Thank you!
The harmony is mostly an amalgamation of overtone and whole tone harmonies with occasional triads punctuating as with most of her work. Beyond that, her treatment of form, rhythm, and melody is largely conventional' Asymmetrical 'limping' rhythmic groups in multiples of 2 and 3 that isn't really any more radical than what Stravinsky was doing nearly a century before, melodic lines that often expand arithmetically that recall Messiaen's 'asymmetrical growth processes'; a sectional approach to form that's mostly articulated in tempo contrasts, etc. etc. I haven't encountered any truly profound analyses of her music, but as far as I can tell, if you study Ligeti's music from about the 70s onward (which there are a number of great studies on), then you should be in the ballpark for understanding how to write like this.
@@prepcoin_nl4362 these things are true, but I think she hearkens some things from the impressionists, Debussy and also driving rhythms and repeated motives like you say, Stravinsky, however, also Bartok I think, I think that S. Wang does a fabulous jobs of getting orchestral type sounds from the piano~very imaginative, rhythmically so impressive! Yes she studied with Ligeti. I think she really has developed her own sound. She writes really well for the piano (helped by this amazing pianist!)
These are awfully good. Sublime, invocatory, utterly pianstic. They night remind one of Sorabji. But they are pithy, make their point and don't stay around too long.
Ligeti was her composition teacher and some of her earlier pieces were actually written as assignments from Ligeti himself. So, it would be surprising if her earlier works diverged much from Ligeti’s.
Not boring (@karllieck9064), but certainly incomprehensible - to me, at least - and, by the look of it, impossible for any 'normal' person to perform. So one has to ask: Why? Thanks for posting.
@@giuseppek 깨는 소리하네. 글의 본질을 모르고 답글 다는군. 음악을 음학으로 보는 스탈이네. 잊혀지지 않은 퍼퓰클래식 중에 사랑스럽지 않은 곡이 있나봐라. 쉔베르그, 스톡하우젠, 피니쉬 등 그런 곡들에서 감동을 찾아봐라. 실험은 실험일 뿐. 딱 보니 편곡이랑 음향 관련쪽인거 같은데 그쪽 애들은 하나같이 멘트가 똑같냐.
Wow. A fantastic discovery for me. Beautiful performance too.
yes!
No. 1
Section A 0:00
(getting in to) Section B 1:39
No. 2
Intro 3:25
Section A 4:13
Section B 4:38
Section C 5:29
No. 3
Thicker texture 9:23
I am most impressed that Mei went to the trouble of learning these pieces. That was not an easy thing to do.
Brilliant pieces, and wonderful pianist! I have discovered Unsuk Chin through a composer friend, and really love her music. These pieces just bring out wonderful sonorities and layers in the piano. Her pieces have a definite structure and ideas. Thank you!
By the way, SO hard! You make it sound easy!
I have listened all through about twice, I love being able to follow the score. The toccata is brilliant!
try Ligeti next time. It's the original version.
@@andradas9688 She studied with Ligeti. I think she has her own sound, though of course I hear Ligeti's influence!
amazing
Creative. Super.
Forbidden ragtime
Excellent
Cuando no hay mas Musica quedan cosas como estas
Música?
Thanks for sharing, but maybe it would better to put the ads in the end
I love overtone series I love spectralism
Does anyone here know the techniques she employs? Or where can I found more about her? I'd like to know more to steal some ideas :P
I mean, it is clear she uses harmonics of C in the first etude, with F# and Bb all over the first measures
The harmony is mostly an amalgamation of overtone and whole tone harmonies with occasional triads punctuating as with most of her work. Beyond that, her treatment of form, rhythm, and melody is largely conventional' Asymmetrical 'limping' rhythmic groups in multiples of 2 and 3 that isn't really any more radical than what Stravinsky was doing nearly a century before, melodic lines that often expand arithmetically that recall Messiaen's 'asymmetrical growth processes'; a sectional approach to form that's mostly articulated in tempo contrasts, etc. etc.
I haven't encountered any truly profound analyses of her music, but as far as I can tell, if you study Ligeti's music from about the 70s onward (which there are a number of great studies on), then you should be in the ballpark for understanding how to write like this.
@@prepcoin_nl4362 these things are true, but I think she hearkens some things from the impressionists, Debussy and also driving rhythms and repeated motives like you say, Stravinsky, however, also Bartok I think, I think that S. Wang does a fabulous jobs of getting orchestral type sounds from the piano~very imaginative, rhythmically so impressive! Yes she studied with Ligeti. I think she really has developed her own sound. She writes really well for the piano (helped by this amazing pianist!)
These are awfully good. Sublime, invocatory, utterly pianstic. They night remind one of Sorabji. But they are pithy, make their point and don't stay around too long.
Do you have the score in PDF? Could it be possible to have it, please? Thanks!
classic-online.ru/uploads/000_notes/120100/120012.pdf
It’s not a great scan, but that’s the one available. I’ll try to make a better scan with the books I borrowed
She loves quintuplets!
ROBERT FRIPP SENT ME HERE
same shit bro
I don't quite get the reference but I do know Fripp via Eno and King Crimson. Think he played on some Bowie tracks as well?
wow Messiaen！
Pretty high praise. Not as chromatically daring as Messaien. More listenable than some of the comments lead me to believe.
@@stueystuey1962 I think she has influences from other composers~
❤❤❤
sodelicious...................
K-Schoenberg
0:00
3:25
6:52
9:55
13:04
16:04
i already have timestamps in the description of the video though...
Sebastian Wang the time stamps in the descriptions aren’t blue-ed links
Amazing !
ligeti ist dabei
Ja, Ligeti beeinflusst sie, aber sie ist auch extrem original. Sie hat ihren eigenen Stil, und sie ist Genie.
Ligeti taught Unsuk Chin... THE FASCINATING COMBINATION OF TWO FABULOUS COMPOSERS... both has extremely marvelous style
@@achoikomposition AGREED
@@zerois2801 yep
Unsuk Chin ist der Schönberg von Korea lmao
음악계 의 백남준
the scores are for sale.. I guess you can not upload these scores regardless of create profit
게다가...가격도 만만치 않지요... 저도 직접 구매한 사람인데, 악보 영상보고 살짝 놀랐다는....^^;;
any copyright?
I agree
The ones that are 100% from Ligeti are OK.
Ligeti was her composition teacher and some of her earlier pieces were actually written as assignments from Ligeti himself. So, it would be surprising if her earlier works diverged much from Ligeti’s.
או יס
The Emperor's New Clothes.
이런음악에서 아름다움을 찾는게 음악을 즐기는 것이라먼 차라리 음악 듣기를 포기하겠다.
와 난해하다 ㅋㅋㅋ
At first interesting, then monotony set in.
I'm just moments in. However I have experienced what you say on many a modern piece.
Started out interesting until it became monotonous and as if it were random arpeggiated patterns from a synthesizer.
어느깨달는자의언어보다더진정성이있는주장자의한방같은수행에서의자연의소리을일갈해버렸어요 문인화가 길산
Not boring (@karllieck9064), but certainly incomprehensible - to me, at least - and, by the look of it, impossible for any 'normal' person to perform. So one has to ask: Why? Thanks for posting.
음악의 본질은 아름다움에 있다. 그 이상은 실험일뿐..
음악은 소리이며 소리는 파동이고 그파동이 나의 감각과 의식을 깨웁니다 님과 맞지 않는 파동일뿐입니다 다른 종류의 음악을 듣으시면 됩니다
@@giuseppek 깨는 소리하네. 글의 본질을 모르고 답글 다는군. 음악을 음학으로 보는 스탈이네. 잊혀지지 않은 퍼퓰클래식 중에 사랑스럽지 않은 곡이 있나봐라. 쉔베르그, 스톡하우젠, 피니쉬 등 그런 곡들에서 감동을 찾아봐라. 실험은 실험일 뿐. 딱 보니 편곡이랑 음향 관련쪽인거 같은데 그쪽 애들은 하나같이 멘트가 똑같냐.
Yawn. So boring.
i insulted
Yawn, no u
Garbage melody