Terrific piece. Because it only has 536 views in two years It reinforces our understanding that the opposite of popular music is not classical music, it is unpopular music.
Fantastic music (also the combustion preludes), I like your style of incorporating more traditional elements of melody and harmony into an otherwise full repertoire of contemporary techniques, very fluent and with an atmosphere of fun!
Thank you! The combination of those elements is important to me. I think of it as melody + magic. Melody allows us to be emotionally engaged in music, while magic (orchestral effects) creates a sense of wonder.
I like this piece a fair bit, but I would say the Ligeti influence is so overbearingly strong that it feels less like a mature work than a pretty good pastiche, from the form to the orchestration to textures to harmonic language, there's nary a second that doesn't sound like a deliberate imitation (save for the passage around 6:00 perhaps). And what was a fresh sound for a composer coming out of the 80s of the European avant-garde isn't quite so for a work in the 2020. Still, listening to some of your more recent works, I already see you moving onto something less derivative. Look forward to seeing what you continue to do. You clearly have a spark
wouldn't even think about trying to play those notes....amazing
Terrific piece. Because it only has 536 views in two years It reinforces our understanding that the opposite of popular music is not classical music, it is unpopular music.
Dude those quartertonal progressions around 4:31 are fucking crazy in this context damn 🤯
haha thanks Saad! Sometimes half steps are just too wide!
@@theochandlercomposer half steps are so overrated! 🤣
Fantastic music (also the combustion preludes), I like your style of incorporating more traditional elements of melody and harmony into an otherwise full repertoire of contemporary techniques, very fluent and with an atmosphere of fun!
Thank you! The combination of those elements is important to me. I think of it as melody + magic. Melody allows us to be emotionally engaged in music, while magic (orchestral effects) creates a sense of wonder.
Impressive!
I like this piece a fair bit, but I would say the Ligeti influence is so overbearingly strong that it feels less like a mature work than a pretty good pastiche, from the form to the orchestration to textures to harmonic language, there's nary a second that doesn't sound like a deliberate imitation (save for the passage around 6:00 perhaps). And what was a fresh sound for a composer coming out of the 80s of the European avant-garde isn't quite so for a work in the 2020.
Still, listening to some of your more recent works, I already see you moving onto something less derivative. Look forward to seeing what you continue to do. You clearly have a spark