Mixed Friends 49

Mix of bulgarian music and jazz improvisation by Violeta Grecu - vocal, cobza  / & Radu Zaplitnii - accordion. Live in Padova 2013 in Conservatorio statale di Musica "C. Pollini"  with "La Banda di via Anelli"

"Suite Bulgara" by V.Grecu & R.Zaplitnii / live in Padova 2013

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1983 
4.3.3.3 – 3.4.3.1 hp, celeste, 3 perc. Strings
This early work, composed when a student at the Royal College of Music, is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwocky from ‘Through the Looking Glass’. 
It is suitable for youth orchestras and presents appropriate challenges to students of c. Grade 7 and 8 standards.
This recording is of the premiere performance given by the Royal College of Music Sinfonia conducted by Christopher Adey.

Jabberwocky (1983)

Wilde Blume

Homework - 2018 - 22

[This music benefits from a full-sized loudspeaker.  Headphones will typically lack the requisite low-frequency response.] 

Artists interested in formal methods tend to get advice of two quite opposite sorts.  Purists urge presenting the structure objectively, so not gilding the lily.  Hedonists see structure as merely a spur to creativity, and thus, in the final product, best hidden (if not simply erased or discarded) by subjective, emotive elaborations.

Curiously, purity itself sometimes distracts from that kept pure.  Perception can get dominated by very general notions of rigidity, regularity, (near) repetition, and in the case of music, fatigue to the ear.  

The title advertises a middle course.   The structural idea involves Egyptian fraction decomposition of unity: ways to segment a monochord into distinct lengths to that each one vibrates as a harmonic of the unstopped string.   Using 6 segments, there exist 2320 ways to do this (ignoring the ordering of the segments).  Some of these involve segments so short that they vibrate so high that the tones will span an interval wider than the range of human hearing.  This piece enumerates the musically useful quarter of the catalog.  The sets of tones get applied both melodically and for building the timbres that project the melodies.  

 Sorted in one obvious way, the catalog has a particular natural large-scale harmonic logic.

The catalog gets embellished with rubato - changes in attack, decay, tempo, rate of tempo change and the use of repetition.   These non- structural details actually seem to make easier concentrating on the subtle particulars of the emergent microtonal harmonic progressions and the voice leading.  Despite zero connection to traditional music theory here, the C major prelude in the WTC might seem a distant ancestor.

Not Quite Gilded Lily On A Not Quite Barren Trellis (electronic)

25Jun18

Heavily influenced by the the excellent dark ambient soundscapes created by Dimensional (https://soundcloud.com/dimensionalsound)

:D

Boson Spin - Toward the Elder Sign

Hi friends...

I think Ive done a winter solstice song for about 5 years now, even more. This one comes late, but its pretty much on the correct time. The photo is from yesterday, 21. december, wonderful day here in Iceland. Clear skies and the few hours of sun we get are wonderful. The photo is taken around 16:30 or so. The colours are what keep us alive in this country.

The song is a drunken improv, Im really sorry I could not do more today. Just got wonderful news that Ive been accepted into a really high class tailer company. 

That kind of took over. So, soon, 2019,,,,  Im 44 years old, done a lot, but not enough. 2018 was not the big up I was hoping for, 2019??? Will it save the day.

Love you all

Stein

Winter Solstice 2018 - The future is always ahead of the past (free dl)

Nova kola

Vladino meraklijsko kolo

Vladino Meraklijsko Kolo (Vlada Veselinović)

For this Christmas challenge I didn't want to play anything sweet and relaxing. Right now my mind is very focused on the frenzy of work that adds to the problems of the pandemic but also to the Christmas holidays that are coming. So my improvisation is for my mind a frantic awakening that sees me face a snowstorm on a sleigh pulled by horses used to this adventure. 
A sincere thanks and best wishes for a Happy Holidays to all of you and in particular to Simon Reich who organized the challenge.

A sleigh ride in the snow storm

Snimak 2013.
Autor kola: Jovica Petković (1927-2015)

Edo Krilić, Esino kolo

Otsesalvestus Eesti Rahva Muuseumis /
Live in Estonian National Museum
28.11.2020

Imeliku polka

Nisht - Gezorgt

Music is My amateur pursuit.... 
I am a child 58 years old..........I love make music because, i found Infinite number of form and color Legos !!!!!!!! 
And this means Infinite number of synthesis ... Infinite number of Creative possibilities ... And this attract me like a magnet..

I've been trying to understand Chopin music lately. I'm trying to understand the magic there ...

I DONT PLAY PIANO, I USE CUBASE AND EWQL VST. MY ORCHESTRA IS COMPUTER .... 
But COMPOSER IS me !
It's like touching keys without a piano. Pedaling. Hit hard. Or touch it like a feather.

Curly Compositions from a German Composer.

Homework - 2018 - 22

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