Name: The Monotony of Sorrow by Martyn Experimental
Duration: 2 min 24 s
Description: Just a quick track made trying to stretch one melodic idea as far as I could take it but using tempo and thickness to create a sense of development. Pretty simple but trying to work on more simpler themes. CSSS CSS and CSP + Reason 11

crescendo and decrescendo, transients and dynamics! all there, maybe make the piano a touch more reverb. other than that i like the over mix a lot! 8/10

Really enjoyed this. The waves of strings sweeping the piece along.

Moody as hell, bringing back the good memories of 90s'/00s' movies themes.

Really like this - super sound and interplay

Dramatic och suggestive. Love this. Beautiful strings.

Morning Coffee

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Music unlocks confined feelings...

CONFINED FEELINGS  (Alfonso Llorente)

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Just a quick track made trying to stretch one melodic idea as far as I could take it but using tempo and thickness to create a sense of development. Pretty simple but trying to work on more simpler themes. CSSS CSS and CSP + Reason 11

The Monotony of Sorrow

Out Of Luck

SUMMER SONG DEMO

Unsettled Minds is a sweeping collection of orchestral adaptations that transform Beethoven’s Appassionata themes and beyond into symphonic meditations for restless souls. Each movement embraces turbulence and tenderness: brooding strings hover on the edge of silence, woodwinds whisper with searching fragility, and brass resound with fateful grandeur. Expanding Beethoven’s architecture into Rachmaninoff-like romantic musings of lush textures and cinematic dramas that capture the beauty and unease of an unsettled mind — where moments of stillness are broken by storms of emotion, and melodies carry both torment and transcendence. 

Performed in the imagined voice of Europe’s greatest orchestras, this album is an invitation into a dream state where longing, unrest, and fragile nobility collide.

2. Stirrings

This was composed as a soundtrack for the short film. Road Trip Through America. The film/soundtrack will be archived at the Moving Image Research Collection at the University of South Carolina.

Road Side Reverie

String Quartet No. 1
Duration: 22'
Publisher: BIll Holab Music: http://www.billholabmusic.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1026
For More Information: https://robertpaterson.com/string-quartet-no-1
For more information on album: https://www.americanmodernrecordings.com/the-indianapolis-quartet-robert-paterson-string-quartets-1-3

PROGRAM NOTES
My original intent with this work was to write a set of four independent miniatures. After writing the first maximally-sized one, I decided to change course: these four "miniatures" are now my String Quartet No. 1.

Although these four movements are designed to be independent, small amounts of material are used interchangeably between each movement. Most notably, material from the first two movements is used in the third, and material from the third movement is used in the fourth.

The most prominent aural feature of the first movement, Fast and Sprightly, is the recurring "clarion" motive. This motive evolves into various thematic gestures and also reappears in the next two movements. Another prominent feature of the first movement is the use of jazz references. The string quartet is required to "swing," a style of playing usually only utilized by jazz musicians and big bands.

The second movement, Logy, begins by parodying North American, southern-style country waltzes. While composing this movement, I had visions of my mother interrupting "Three good ol’ boys fiddlin’ on a porch in Rabun Gap, GA," quipping at them to stop. The quipping is represented by the first violinist interjecting the "Rob–ert" theme. This strange, surrealistic daydream probably originates from memories of my mother calling my name from the other side of the bedroom door when I was a boy.

A section called "Andrew Lloyd Webber Disease" occurs in the middle of the second movement. This section is a schizophrenic alternation of a sick, dissonant, violin duo with an Andrew Lloyd Webber-sounding viola and cello duo. By the end of the movement, my mother joins the "Good ol’ boys" for a final song, after they have all become sick from eating too many boiled peanuts.

The third movement, Sad, Luscious Adagio, uses material from the first and second movements, but at a much slower tempo. Each player has a featured solo in this movement: the cellist plays a solo in double-stops and the violinist plays one made up of almost entirely artificial harmonics. The second violin and viola solos are intended to highlight the instruments’ singing qualities and the performers’ lyrical abilities. As with Logy, I use material recycled from previous movements.

Although the fourth movement, Energetic Polka, is not a strict polka, it has a polka-like beginning. It also contains a few short "quotes," the most notable one being the appropriation of the melodic line from the theme song from the television show The Love Boat.

Material from other movements is also used in Energetic Polka, particularly by the cello. The cellist never has a chance to play the "Pseudo-fugato" theme in Logy, so the cellist "aggressively" reintroduces it in this movement. Energetic Polka ends with a section entitled "Hyperfast shimmy and shake."

The Indianapolis Quartet: Robert Paterson - String Quartets 1-3

String Quartet No. 1 ("Love Boat") - IV. Energetic Polka

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