This Baroque composer was ahead of his time.
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747) composed 'The Elements' which opens with 'The Chaos' featuring a "tone cluster" of every note in the key. This is dissonant technique that seemed almost alien to the music of the 1700s.
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Listening to this new recording of this gorgeous classical guitar duet ‘Finis Autem Principium Est (2013)’ by Marek Pasieczny
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A fresh sound coming out of the new album by contemporary composer Taylor Brook. Loving it so far.
‘Nox’
“Nox is a set of fourteen pieces, conceptualized together as the passage of time through a single night: falling asleep, dreaming, deep sleep, wakefulness, and gradually awakening in the predawn. The music explore...
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The term "Impressionism" was originally coined as a sarcastic insult by French art critic Louis Leroy in 1874. Reviewing the first independent exhibition of painters like Claude Monet, Leroy used the term to mock the works as unfinished, sloppy, and mere "impressions" rather than finished paintings.
Composer Claude De...
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Two short articles from a few years ago: 'Everything Matters' and 'Something I Love About Artists'
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Current listening:
‘Hinterlands’ by David Bird
“Shifting between microtonal shimmer, dense counterpoint, and immersive electronic textures, the album treats sound like a form of “sonic metallurgy”: metallic resonances, harmonic artifacts, and layered noise evoke processes of extraction, production, and decay.
Hinter...
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