Hey guys,
Over the last two days my right arm's been really bad. Even with left-handed computer use, I can't really get to a point where it's not sympathetically tensing. Like a back-seat driver, used to being dominant, ya know. Anyway I am terrified of RSI and the damage it may do to my output in the long run. I think I just need to take the pressure off with a few things, including MoM, for a few days and try and hardly use the computer/piano/phone/pen at all.
Heres an idea for a piece though. A simple chord progression played in hushed, sustained semi-quavers on piano (Vatche?), recorded three times, the player with a click thats a few bpm different to the last for each recording. And with eternal repeats, they would go more and more out of phase in the actual phase way. By no means an original idea, but I'm excited to experiment with the chords bleeding into each other.
Finally, Happy Birthday Christine, you aquatic burst of light.
Saturday, 18 November 2017
18 Longer phrases for precise ritardando
Hey,
So today was just a bit of an experiment. I normally work with polytempo structures inside of short phrases of like a bar or two, but today I thought I'd play around with a 64 note rit.
The steeper the curve the more dramatic the rit (right slows down at a faster rate):
I didn't have a great deal of time to put anything too musical together
on it, So I just stacked all 11 of these 8 bar ritardando on top of each other to
hear what it sounded it like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have a great weekend :)
So today was just a bit of an experiment. I normally work with polytempo structures inside of short phrases of like a bar or two, but today I thought I'd play around with a 64 note rit.
Have a great weekend :)
Orchestral Thesis Piece
Today's is DEFINITELY not a 'one-a-day' composition. For our masters' degrees, the thesis component is a piece for orchestra, and Christine and I have been working hard (?) on these pieces, in advance of their deadline on the 28th.
Mine is done, although it needs to be renotated as a better score, flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones 1&2 on the same stave, and so on. This is going to happen some time after my lesson today, but I'd LOVE some feedback, as I've still got 10 days to work on it. Please tell me what you think!
Peter Looked:
This piece is an orchestrated excerpt from my monodrama, The Mermaid. For those of you who have heard it, you might remember this as the interstitial music, describing a lover whom the central character has tried to excise from her life. He looks for her, and eventually falls out of love. This piece is trying to describe the combination of cathartic joy and loss, what she internalises from the experience, and something she's not quite ready to accept in her life, even though she wants to.
On a side note, the performance of these pieces in Feb will be inside a humungous church, with very washy acoustics. ALSO, the percussion on the track is buggy as hell
Score & Audio here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mghuu0omxxoolyx/AABnZr23i7c1dXRHRvhdcJR1a?dl=0
Mine is done, although it needs to be renotated as a better score, flutes, oboes, bassoons, horns, trumpets, trombones 1&2 on the same stave, and so on. This is going to happen some time after my lesson today, but I'd LOVE some feedback, as I've still got 10 days to work on it. Please tell me what you think!
Peter Looked:
This piece is an orchestrated excerpt from my monodrama, The Mermaid. For those of you who have heard it, you might remember this as the interstitial music, describing a lover whom the central character has tried to excise from her life. He looks for her, and eventually falls out of love. This piece is trying to describe the combination of cathartic joy and loss, what she internalises from the experience, and something she's not quite ready to accept in her life, even though she wants to.
On a side note, the performance of these pieces in Feb will be inside a humungous church, with very washy acoustics. ALSO, the percussion on the track is buggy as hell
Score & Audio here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mghuu0omxxoolyx/AABnZr23i7c1dXRHRvhdcJR1a?dl=0
some deep sea sketching
Worked on my fishes yesterday/today.
The lanternfish makes up 65% of the biomass at these deep levels of the sea. Unlike other deep sea fishes, they look fairly harmless and almost cute.
image credit: Emma Kissling [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Lanternfish is going to be the lush center movement of this piece, as it's the only fish I'm including that isn't terrifying. I have some chords, but I'm not sure how I'll use them yet!
The lanternfish makes up 65% of the biomass at these deep levels of the sea. Unlike other deep sea fishes, they look fairly harmless and almost cute.
image credit: Emma Kissling [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Lanternfish is going to be the lush center movement of this piece, as it's the only fish I'm including that isn't terrifying. I have some chords, but I'm not sure how I'll use them yet!
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