Brecht Valckenaers | Rhythmical Study No. 1: Distorting Time | Score
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ม.ค. 2024
- Composition and performance: Brecht Valckenaers.
This piano study is an exploration of quintuplets and polyrhythms within a quintuplet-feel.
Analysis:
The structure of the piece follows a simple ABA form. The main motif, introduced in the second measure (A-G-F-Bb-G#-A), acts as the cohesive element throughout the composition, forming the foundation of the tonal scheme. The tonalities of the main sections outline the main motif: F at 0:00, Eb at 0:22, Db at 0:38, F# (or Gb) at 0:52, Em at 1:19, and a return to F at 1:45 and beyond. The A-part consists of three sections (0:00, 0:22, 0:38), each following the same structure. In each section, a steady beat is introduced twice, followed by the main motif played in polyrhythm (with subtle variations on the second occurrence). This is followed by a slower, misleading beat (5:6) and a conclusive section that anticipates the upcoming polyrhythm. In the first section, the main polyrhythm is 5:4, in the second 5:3, and in the third 5:2.As the main motif transforms into a 16th-note figure, the piece transitions into the B-part. The B- part consists of two sections (0:52 and 1:19), both sharing the same structure. A melody is presented twice, with a third voice joining in imitation during the second presentation.The reprise of the A-part closely mirrors the original, with a notable change being the relocation of the beat to a higher register. Additionally, the beat persists during the polyrhythmic sections, creating a distinctive rhythmic layer. A brief coda at 2:18 features the head of the B-part theme placed above the main motif, gradually accelerating, providing a conclusion to the composition.
What are your thoughts on the notation of the polyrhythm with beam grouping that follows the groupings instead of the subdivision and using dotted lines to show the intended subdivision? The more conventional notation with beams grouped per quintuplet - the subdivision - appeared visually unappealing, but perhaps it would offer greater clarity in the end?
I sincerely hope you enjoy the music! If you'd like the score, please email brechtvalckenaers@hotmail.com or send a message via Facebook/Instagram.
Many thanks to Nicolas Callot for the recording!
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Ligeti would be proud!
Yes he would definitely applaud this.
Тоже про Лигети сразу вспомнилось. Интервалика чисто его. 😂
This is fabulous! Just when you think there is nothing new or exciting or inventive … something like this comes along!
Have you heard the Ligeti Etudes, or the Chin Etudes?
@@meruscales have you heard of trash? Or garbage?
@@Whatismusic123 not liking chin or ligeti is more than understandable but why bash other's taste so aggressively
people can have different taste and thats ok no need to get agressive with each other despite our aesthetic differences
@@yeetthebeet there's a difference between having shit taste, and sharing that shit taste, spreading it like a plague.
@@Whatismusic123ironic coming from someone who only composes literal ass wipes for compositions
I’m in love with this
As far as the notation, that which makes the performance more apparent is preferable over all else.
Also great harmonies and counterpoint!
So unique and addictive
Awesome work!
Love it, it is so interesting
Awesome job man
I occasionally get Guardian theme vibes a la breath of the wild-this is really cool!
Dizzying and engaging! Bravo; very wonderful !!!! (Now to see if I can actually play it lol)
Ligeti vibes
This is a deeply interesting piece - I love its original and slightly stony soundscape. Makes me think of cave walls and fields of boulders. The performance was a thing of beauty.
Why has it taken YT so long to pop you into my suggestions? I've got some further listening to do and I think I will enjoy it.
Thank you so much for your words! :)
Nice!
I find this cool, it has a lot of freshness and drive. Though some things also leave me in doubt: "Feel the entire piece in quintuplets." Why do you even need this instruction? Should not the music itself care for the feeling it evokes? Would this not be about the same as if a horror story was introduced with "please read and shudder"?
Hello! Thank you a lot for your comment! When dealing with polyrhythm there are cases where the feeling can be ambiguous and you can feel the rhythm in different ways, the piece can evoke different feelings. As I composed this piece with the intent of being a study in polyrhythm against a quintuplet feel, I wrote this sentence as a suggestion to the performer to inform them how I felt and intended the polyrhythmic passages. Of course as a listener you are free to feel it whathever way you want or naturally feel! Hope it's clear what I mean and thank you again for your comment! :-)
Wow, this is just an amazing electrifying composition, so vital and energetic with a evry interesting approach to pianistic technique, to some extend reminding of Ligeti's piano etudes. Very strong voice!
I had the same aural comparison: I thought "If Ligeti had had interest in the audience, this would have been the result".
Marvelous. Original--better yet, authentic--yet comprehensible! Thank you for posting.
Flawless. A great piece from the prism of rhythm and harmony. It sounds like a love child of Ligeti and Brad Mehldau. You should be proud.
Two of my favourites, so I'm happy to hear that! :-) Thank you!
Flawless? 🤣
For something "flawless" you'd expect less than 99% of it to be flaws
This is brilliant!! I was just looking for something new to play. Thank you! Excellent notation (and composition of course) btw.
Thank you so much! Let me know if you would like to have the score!
@@brechtvalckenaers5108 That would be amazing thank you!! I tried to use screenshots of the score video hahaa
Send me an email (you can find my email in the description) and I will send you the score in reply!
WOW! 😱
this is wonderful!! reminds me very much of bartoks piano works
This is incredible! I'd like to learn this.
Thank you!:) let me know if you would like to have the score (my email adress is in the description)!
Freaking amazin composition! Well done, and well performed!
modern minimalistic and sleek very nice
Wow i love this! Reminds me of ligeti!
Thank you very much! Interesting choice of music on your channel by the way! :-)
@@brechtvalckenaers5108 Thank you!
What a terrible "compliment"
@@Whatismusic123 what’s wrong with being compared to the greatest composer of the 20th century
@@meruscales first of all, excluding scriabin and rachmaninoff, it's a low bar to cross. second of all, ligeti cannot even make music, he creates random noise, and is hyper pretentious. he does not even cross the starting line, let alone come close to being the "greatest".
Reminiscent of Ligeti. I love this so much.
I like how your variations are very playful while still being in line thematically. how long does it take you to write such a piece ?
Thank you! :) I wrote this piece a bit spread over a period of about two months!
@@brechtvalckenaers5108 I'm glad to hear it took some time and thought.
Ok, calm down, dollar tree Ligeti. 😂
Fellow cult member, this really tickles my soul, I love how this sounds like 【Cult leader】 truly amazing soundscapes and textures. I can't wait to share this with my fellow zealots!
Why is it so hard to count
Because the time of the piece keeps changing without the composer even recognizing it, the time of the piece is completely random, though that doesn't matter, so long as you can appease your fellow cult members.
This is not music.
It is sound though.
@@JosephOzielComposer my farts are sound. The screams of a person being brutally macheted is sound.
@Whatismusic123 there is no point in stating the obvious, but yes
@@JosephOzielComposer the thing is that you're trying to draw a silver lining when there's nothing to excuse this waste of time and effort.
@@Whatismusic123 bro I get that you’re not capable of hearing harmony or rhythm unless it’s the most banal sequences of tonal functions in a 4/4 time, you don’t need to keep saying so
a complaint about your engraving
even the very first page is problematic
"Feel the entire piece in quintuplet"
So you wanna imagine the "quintuplet" but in reality
Say the first couple pages, the music is only in simple quarter beat pulses,
which could literally have been notated as 5/4, remove all that dotted bar line bs, and you have a clean bar that actually reflects on the music
But of course, the ego gets in the way of practicality.
"dotted lines indicate the intended subdivision to avoid confusion"
How fucking ironic
Thank you for your comment! For me the piece is a rhythmical study on polyrhythm within a quintuplet feel, so for me it would be wrong notating for example the second measure in 5/4 as you are saying, because then you're changing the pulse to quarter beat pulses instead of quintuplets (I feel the pulse in that measure on the A, E flat, A flat G flat). I can very well imagine that as a listener you begin to follow the groupings as the pulse and then feel it as 5/4, which is completely normal, then it is as if the tempo changes; but for the performer it's a study for feeling the quarter beats (or later dotted eights or eights) as a polyrythm against the quintuplet feel. That's why I chose this notation, for me it was the most clear in the end for the performer. But feel free to disagree or to not like the piece or this kind of music of course; just as there is plenty of music I don't really enjoy I can imagine many people will not enjoy this, and that's completely normal and fine! :)
@@brechtvalckenaers5108 no, i very much enjoy the piece. just disagree with impractical notation.
"because then you're changing the pulse to quarter beat pulses instead of quintuplets" is exactly right. That's what the music is in that bar, no matter what you imagine it to be. And to notate anything what the music is not at any moment would be impractical.
As engraver, the job is to make the notation as simple as possible, not the other way around.
That being said, i didnt need to leave this comment, this isnt even something I take real issues with. Great piece after all