I love what you're doing, Chris. Been watching a ton of your videos lately. Delivery is so clear, concise and simple. Keep it up and I'll keep watching and taking notes!
I'm going to have to watch this one again. Today has been terrible and as soon as you hit the first Cm7 I started to cry like a baby. Thank you Chris, I needed that. Some times it's about more than just the notes.
Wonderful inspiration, thank you for that. Ravel’s Bolero also is based on accumulation, not as much motivic as orchestral. Feels like he came up with the final bars and then deconstructed it to its pieces to start with.
Nice Chris. When I first learned Bach's C minor prelude book one, I realised years later every time I played it In learned so much about chord progressions and internal rhythms. Thanks again for this.
I'm not able to use a score but I can immediately see the potential for recording arpeggios and progressively snipping out or adding back components. As early as the first generation of midi sequencing on a computer (Steinberg pro24 in my case), where it became possible to cut from and paste into a timeline, I saw potential in techniques evolving simple ideas into more dynamic ones in a way similar to this but to my detriment I always filled up with new ideas instead of benefitting from the continuity presented by variation and expansion. In the mid 80s along came house music which used the new technologies to repeat mediocre ideas ad- nausium. By comparison, my music at the time was way too complicated or disjointed to be palatable in the mainstream and I gave my life over to visual art. Whereas I still despise a lot of EDM, now that I have energy to devote to music once more, I have missed so much electronic music that went on in the shadows. I am coming to terms with repetition. In my time away from making music, I have followed Glass, Reich, Feldman, Adams, Torky, Nyman, Martland etc. as a listener and your videos help me to understand why their music makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you.
Using your own compositions to demonstrate concepts is so effective. I had just listened to Music for 18 Instruments - last night. I was very aware of the additive / subtractive arc and now I have a word for that process :-) The first time I heard the term ‘Systems Music’ it was said by a Brit. Is it the preferred term for Brits and equivalent to the more familiar-in-the-US term Minimalism? Or is Minimalism the umbrella term and Systems - specifically accumulative - is a sub-category of Minimalism?
sorry i didn't see this earlier. there are 2 kinds of parallelisms... diatonic (only from the scale) and chromatic. This video features Diatonic parallel 10ths.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 amazing
I love what you're doing, Chris. Been watching a ton of your videos lately. Delivery is so clear, concise and simple. Keep it up and I'll keep watching and taking notes!
Nice exercise for concept development.
Can definitely hear the Glass influence ❤
Amazing lesson!
cool!
Your example piece reminded me of Erik Satie. Really enjoyed it.
Lovely piece and really great ideas/inspiration. Thank you for the video!
I'm going to have to watch this one again. Today has been terrible and as soon as you hit the first Cm7 I started to cry like a baby. Thank you Chris, I needed that. Some times it's about more than just the notes.
i feel you.
I really appreciate these videos. Definitely helps keep me inspired. Thank you!
Wonderful inspiration, thank you for that. Ravel’s Bolero also is based on accumulation, not as much motivic as orchestral. Feels like he came up with the final bars and then deconstructed it to its pieces to start with.
excellent points. i'm almost always working backwards with accumulation pieces. and i love adding 'orchestration' to the mix.
Nice Chris. When I first learned Bach's C minor prelude book one, I realised years later every time I played it In learned so much about chord progressions and internal rhythms. Thanks again for this.
Thanks. I like the concept. In the guitar, my instrument, it may be a little trickier, but it’s worth while exploring.
That's really nice :3
I'm not able to use a score but I can immediately see the potential for recording arpeggios and progressively snipping out or adding back components. As early as the first generation of midi sequencing on a computer (Steinberg pro24 in my case), where it became possible to cut from and paste into a timeline, I saw potential in techniques evolving simple ideas into more dynamic ones in a way similar to this but to my detriment I always filled up with new ideas instead of benefitting from the continuity presented by variation and expansion.
In the mid 80s along came house music which used the new technologies to repeat mediocre ideas ad- nausium. By comparison, my music at the time was way too complicated or disjointed to be palatable in the mainstream and I gave my life over to visual art.
Whereas I still despise a lot of EDM, now that I have energy to devote to music once more, I have missed so much electronic music that went on in the shadows. I am coming to terms with repetition.
In my time away from making music, I have followed Glass, Reich, Feldman, Adams, Torky, Nyman, Martland etc. as a listener and your videos help me to understand why their music makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you.
Using your own compositions to demonstrate concepts is so effective. I had just listened to Music for 18 Instruments - last night. I was very aware of the additive / subtractive arc and now I have a word for that process :-) The first time I heard the term ‘Systems Music’ it was said by a Brit. Is it the preferred term for Brits and equivalent to the more familiar-in-the-US term Minimalism? Or is Minimalism the umbrella term and Systems - specifically accumulative - is a sub-category of Minimalism?
thx alot. Really usable.
Confesion : Im kinda stuck in plugin accumulation
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What's a paralell 10rh is that just up 10 semitones the same exact patterns?
Up 10 scale degrees, rather than 10 semitones. An octave plus a third.
@wellurban but not necessarily diatonic thirds right? Is that what's meant by paralell?
sorry i didn't see this earlier. there are 2 kinds of parallelisms... diatonic (only from the scale) and chromatic. This video features Diatonic parallel 10ths.