composers
A place to share original compositions, works by favorite composers, theory, analysis, and all things related.
@lonewick
New release I’m listening to:
‘India’ by Swedish classical guitarist Johannes Möller
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT8YR31Cud-czHlSZIRdnh3YcBXTnfMsL&si=DQzvLMMMkS1P-qZ8
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@lonewick
Current listening:
Bach, Telemann and Weiss: Baroque Lute Music | Xavier Díaz-Latorre · Mar... https://youtu.be/NFBdFajEW1c?si=YsdNj_6YmvuGhkSJ
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@lonewick
UNRISEN | recording + score
By Marco Momi
https://youtu.be/aTXDxHPlDFk?si=QH8oRg6V6DV9G3nB
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@lonewick
Harry Partch (1901–1974) was an American composer, instrument builder, and theorist who rejected the standard Western tuning system and built his own musical world from scratch. Dissatisfied with equal temperament, he developed a microtonal system of 43 notes per octave based on just intonation, believing music should reflect the natural harmonic series more closely.
https://youtu.be/vmfybRdPzR8?si=QfL2v5igo2zdHPBL
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@lonewick
‘Machine Spectre’ (2024) by Ess Whiteley
https://youtu.be/6xTknOFBVn0?si=mxtvBrlyjC56AmZ4
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@lonewick
‘Images from a Closed Ward’ by Michael Hersch
https://youtu.be/dF6_dOv2fd0?si=GjJoR3suVkqEPh2U
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@lonewick
A composition grows from a single motivic germ. Everything in the piece is a developing variation of that germ.
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@lonewick
Right now I’m thinking about:
1. Various layers of dynamic dimension
2. Imitation among those layers
3. Cadence of each layer
4. Cadence of aggregates of layers
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@lonewick
Currently listening to this new release of music by Georg Friedrich Haas, known for his micro-tonal and spectral techniques.
Violin Concerto No. 2 and de terrae fine
Read the write-up here:
https://www.mirandacuckson.com/georg-friedrich-haas-album-violin-concerto-no-2-and-de-terrae-fine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKC7r6dqD8&list=OLAK5uy_ljDdjd997k4whhST9S7cwXyq5bgEpVog0
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@lonewick
Wiegenmusik (1963) is a solo piano piece by German composer Helmut Lachenmann. The title translates to "Cradle-Music" or "Lullaby," but the composition abstractly depicts the act of falling asleep, moving from intense activity towards a state of complete rest.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ct50QJLGzc&si=2RjCBo-RGD3WtBFB
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@lonewick
I identify as a composer but the reality is that the majority of my time is not spent composing. I believe the work of great composers/artists comes from the opposite work, the living of a life.
The lived life doesn’t have to be a balanced one. It can literally be anything except for the music/art. The art is the outlet of lived experience, observation, connecting of the dots, anything but the practice itself.
You first learn how to use the tools, how the medium of music/art works, you spend all of your time practicing it to a level of competence. You never stop learning, but you reach a point where the tools of the trade become embodied like another limb.
Once the tools of the trade become a limb, the trade itself becomes a tool. Then you live life and use the tool of music/art as a faucet for emotional and intellectual expression of the things in life that can’t be transferred through words.
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