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seraph
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Joined: Jun 21, 2003 Posts: 12398 Location: Firenze, Italy
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 1:10 pm Post subject:
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Tres Exotique n.2 is a new version of a previous piece I "wrote" last year. I present them both here.
Listen to Tres Exotique n.1
Listen to Tres Exotique n.2 _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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orczy
Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Posts: 161 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:05 am Post subject:
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Just listening to Tres Exotique nr 1 for the third time. This is something else, and very hard to describe. The constant shifts in key, from brooding to carefree within a bar, and back, yet it makes sense.
I love the sound mixture: piano, vibes, bass clarinet, harp (?).
Initially I thought it to be a bit Bartok changed my mind to Debussy, then Webern. Before I could catch up, it was something dark and Germanic, yet slightly jazzy.
That above may sound a bit confused, but the piece does not sound so at all. All the chord cahnges and melodic shifts are entirely logical, and inspired at the same time.
The choice of timbres with the style and feel of the piece is refreshing and oddly familiar (although I can't recall hearing them before)
On a fifth listen, it struck me that the whole thing is not unlike Messiaen may have done had he worked with Eric Dolphy.
I love this Seraph, and now I must listen to the newer version. |
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mosc
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 6:00 am Post subject:
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I've listened to this several times too. I love it. This is very intelligent music. Orczy's comments are spot on.
So far, this is my favorite Seraph piece. Outstanding. BRAVO! _________________ --Howard
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seraph
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:03 am Post subject:
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orczy wrote: | the whole thing is not unlike Messiaen may have done had he worked with Eric Dolphy. |
WOW Chris
I'm flattered
this is a piece I would have never come up with I had not been fluent in computer music. It started as a long piano improvisation (MIDI) that I edited, cut in pieces that were moved around and repeated to give a sense of form to it. It has a tonal center (F sharp) that appears and disappears. Once I had a satisfying form I split the performance by MIDI notes and assigned each track to different instruments. A technique I ran across in the '80 while at Berklee. This tip could change your music world forever _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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seraph
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:06 am Post subject:
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mosc wrote: | this is my favorite Seraph piece. Outstanding. BRAVO! |
Thank you Howard _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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mosc
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:50 am Post subject:
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I have used that MIDI cut and paste, chop and patch, technique before too; expecially in the 80s. It's a good technique. I still use it today as well. _________________ --Howard
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elamont
Joined: Jan 11, 2007 Posts: 3 Location: California
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Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:01 am Post subject:
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Very few times am I ever impressed....WONDERFUL!
Erin
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