Name: To Hear and Hear-That by David Victor Feldman
Duration: 1 h

puts me a deep listening zone, and very uch awre that what i think i hear is an interpretation of what is in the air !

I wonder what could be an appropriate instrumentation. cembalo, kalimba, tuned chimes? the easiest (in terms of tuning) would be propably a guitar ensemble.

I'd call that 'ambient' music - which is not supposed to mean 'background music' - but it's not music to sit in a chair and listen to, but music to linger in.

Soundtrack to a TV commercial for cancer awareness in Iceland.

Bryndís Jakobs - Vocals
Halldór Gunnar - Guitar
Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir - Cello 
Jóhann Vignir - Synth, recording, mixing, producing.

Pink Ribbon - TV Spot - 60sec

Part of a soundtrack for the Icelandic docuseries 'What Can We Do'. Premiered on RUV in 2021. 

All Instrumentation - String programming by me.

Together - Climate Docuseries

Slow Waltz
for chamber ensemble

to Liana, with love

Originally for piano (Composed in November 2023)
This arrangement was made in two-and-a-half hours on 9th December 2023. 

Slow Waltz, for ensemble (2023)

All That Jazz was composed as a piece for a cycle of Nocturnes which eventually became 'Facing the Night'. On reviewing the piece, I considered it to be sufficient as a standalone piece and as an exploration of highly chromatic jazz. Listen in for a quotation of a jazz standard! 

Cover Art: All That Jazz, M.Sani.

All That Jazz, for MIDI (2021-22)

When living things gain the ability to extract information from their environment and react to it, they can have a survival advantage.   So did our senses evolved;e.g. an animal might "hear that" a predator approaches and evade it.  

Complex beings process complex stimuli for all manner of information, so the cognitive effort after the raw sensation can take time.   This necessary delay, for human beings at least, means experiencing sense-data-in-itself even while reflecting on the question "What is it?"  For music this gives rise to a duality: even as we surrender to an immersive experience we might parse it and deduce some of its structure (or at least experience the mere presence of structure through its artifacts).  

Perhaps "duality" make this too simple: we can also reflect on the feeling of surrender, we can also reflect on the feeling of deductive experience.  We can "hear that" a sound got made in a certain way, we can hear that a sound is similar to different from some other sound, and we can "hear that" a variety of sounds enjoy some order or pattern.   Music is not just how it sounds, it is at least(!) all that the stratified listening mind does.

To Hear and Hear-That, as a kind hypercanon (a canon on a canon on canon on a canon) depends on "transposition up the steps of the overtone series (as opposed to up or down a fixed interval).  

From another but equivalent viewpoint, the many chords here correspond to solutions of the problem of expressing any given beat number, if possible, as the sum of four distinct fourth powers (a.k.a. biquadrates).   From the choice of that problem, and for mathematical reasons, a kind of rhythmic steady state emerges, a flow that neither thins nor thickens on the average, but nevertheless projects predictable/unpredictable variation (depending on the computational power of the agent who would predict).   In contrast to the rhythmic steady state, as the piece progresses the larger beat numbers require solutions with larger biquadrates, so the timbre of the piece slowly evolves from consonance to some kind of resonant dissonance.

For an ending, both a bit arbitrary but also a bit natural, the piece goes on only as long as 32 harmonics suffice.  



To Hear and Hear-That

The doctors didn't know what was wrong with my lumbar area. They said it was a herniated disk. Later it was found to be a diabetic complication that ate the nerves away from my lumbar area. Only 0.000000000000000875% of the population get this. i am very lucky. 

piano collection 15b: Herniated Disks Much Better Now.

An early ditty from 2002, for piano solo. The second in the piano collection series. 

Peter Thoegersen - Piano Collection II a

This is my fourth symphony, and I am using new software that sounds better. The new software is not microtonal friendly, therefore, there will be two versions: standard and poly microtonal. This version is in 12tet and it is still highly polytempic. Each choir of the orchestra is moving separately in Fuxian contrapuntal motions, such as, contrary, parallel, similar and oblique, with respect to tempi changes in the choirs.

Another fact about this piece is that it uses many fragments of Gregorian chant from the Liber Usualis and is scattered throughout the single movement piece. The chants are of various lengths and are brief. The form could be considered a type of "variation" form; even if the chants are not literally repeated, they do act as a type of chaconne, over which the symphony plays and explores.

Symphony IV: melodiae perpetuae in polytempic polytonality

This is a composite of 12 tracks: 4 strings, 4 pianos, and 4 drumsets all in four different tempos and 4 different tunings. All instruments are playing the original Hypercube score! No added notes. 

Hypercube Version III (for Chamber Ensemble: Strings, Pianos, and drumsets)

Piano II #2

Piano II #3

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David Victor Feldman

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