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[Rowy]

I find this forum a bit confusing. It takes some time to get used to the nerdy approach, although it might just be me. I'm probably not the brightest bulb in this esteemed company, and I hardly dare to complain because Kristofer looks a lot like my old professor, and I do not want to be put in the corridor to contemplate my sins. So I guess I need to think a bit harder. Or, as someone once told me: No one promised you this would be easy.

Well, at least it will keep the riffraff out.

 

[Marylyn]

Isn't Einaudi a German motor car?

[Kristofer Emerig]

To be precise, it's ONE German motor car, as opposed to Zweiaudis.

[Rowy]

It's about the same. Once it starts running, nothing else happens. Very reliable.

[David]

attaboy, sock it to him -- Ferneyhough deserves everything that coming to him......

[HS Teoh]

Listening to his 2nd string quartet... I'm very biased, but the score looks like chicken scratch, and the music sounds like it too. :-D Unfortunately, I'm of the opinion that the barnyard chickens in my hometown make better music than this. Maybe I should subscribe to their channel instead...

[Mike Hewer]

aww boo Teoh. I quite like Fernyhough but admit he'll probably not be liked if folk like their chords to have consonance, Roman numerals and numbers. His 'counterpoint' and invention is truly amazing imo as is his mastery of anything from rhythm to extended instrumental techniques. OK, I'm probably niche, wierd and nerdy, (now there's a comedy act), so be it.

[HS Teoh]

Haha I'm niche, weird, and nerdy too. Just in a different way. :-D I'm not completely partial to consonant music; after all, I did write my Wild Fugue (have you checked it out yet?) where I throw all harmonic considerations to the winds. And I have sketches of a piece consisting entirely of glides (real "atonal"? as in, absence of any tone in the sense of a continuous, held pitch :-P). But I have to admit Ferneyhough challenges me beyond my capacity.

There's no accounting for taste, I guess.

[David]

speaking of no accounting for taste -- as we're in silly mode at the moment it seems, I thought I'd just mention that I uploaded one of my silliest little works. It's Grimm's tale "The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage". At a mere 5 minutes, it's just about the shortest thing I ever wrote (apart from a couple of songs). Although not quite as daft as "Carmina Rubana", the life and times of our dog Ruby bearing an uncanny resemblance to a certain work by Carl Orff we were singing when the pandemic struck, it is probably just about as mad as the fairytale -- the only one I set without actual singing.

[Rowy]

What a strange story that is. I read it so I could understand your music better, but I've never read such a strange story. The mouse, the bird and the sausage? What's next? The Beaver, the Penguin and the Pizza?

[David]

there are some pretty strange Grimm stories but this is one of the weirdest and shortest -- thanks for having a listen, anyway! In recent years, I've been setting a number of fairytales for singers and a variety of chamber instruments including Rapunzel and Hansel and Gretel. It's always difficult to do a virtual performance of such things as the only VST choirs which can sing free text in any language you want are the not ideal EWQL ones. Just in case you or anyone else wants to dip in to some of this, the mockups can be found here https://play.reelcrafter.com/dko22/vocalmusic . (from there it's also possible to navigate to my chamber and orchestral music).

Incidentally,I find your Psalms for Nature quite touching. It would be interesting to hear what you could do on a larger scale - unless you prefer simply to write miniatures, of course.