For a moment, I felt like Philip Glass. Thanks!
In B-Flat (2009)
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Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#32Really lovely idea and brilliant execution. For people who don't get the reference, one of the defining pieces of the Minimalist movement in 20th century music[1] was "In C" by Terry Riley[2]. Minimalist pieces often (but don't always) include elements of non-determinsm like in this. [1] Minimalism here doesn't mean "not many notes" it means deliberately restricting the range of harmonic and rhythmic materials availa…
> For people who don't get the reference, one of the defining pieces of the Minimalist movement in 20th century music[1] was "In C" by Terry Riley So they missed the opportunity to call this "In B#".
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Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#33> In Bb doesn't run properly on mobile devices. Please use a laptop/desktop. If you'd like to try anyway please click OK. But I am running this on a laptop.
And it worked fine on my phone (Firefox on Android).
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#34Really lovely idea and brilliant execution. For people who don't get the reference, one of the defining pieces of the Minimalist movement in 20th century music[1] was "In C" by Terry Riley[2]. Minimalist pieces often (but don't always) include elements of non-determinsm like in this. [1] Minimalism here doesn't mean "not many notes" it means deliberately restricting the range of harmonic and rhythmic materials availa…
This reminds me of "Quiet City" by Aaron Copeland.
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#35Really lovely idea and brilliant execution. For people who don't get the reference, one of the defining pieces of the Minimalist movement in 20th century music[1] was "In C" by Terry Riley[2]. Minimalist pieces often (but don't always) include elements of non-determinsm like in this. [1] Minimalism here doesn't mean "not many notes" it means deliberately restricting the range of harmonic and rhythmic materials availa…
> Minimalism here doesn't mean "not many notes" it means deliberately restricting the range of harmonic and rhythmic materials available to the composer This is not necessarily what minimalism means. Minimalism is just an abstraction for certain kinds of art, possibly with various incompatible techniques. For some artists (not just musicians, but also painters, poets etc) minimalism means "repetition"-ism i.e. art wi…
How does this relate to Schoenberg?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-tone_technique
Or to the whole of impressionism in music?
"In 1912, the French composer Ernest Fanelli (1860–1917) received significant attention and coverage in the Parisian press following a performance of a symphonic poem he wrote in 1886, titled Thèbes, incorporating elements associated with Impressionism, such as extended chords and whole-tone scales.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism_in_music
Writing in 1958, the critic Rudolph Reti summarised six features of Debussy's music, which he asserted "established a new concept of tonality in European music": the frequent use of lengthy pedal points – "not merely bass pedals in the actual sense of the term, but sustained 'pedals' in any voice"; glittering passages and webs of figurations which distract from occasional absence of tonality; frequent use of parallel chords which are "in essence not harmonies at all, but rather 'chordal melodies', enriched unisons", described by some writers as non-functional harmonies; bitonality, or at least bitonal chords; use of the whole-tone and pentatonic scales; and unprepared modulations, "without any harmonic bridge". Reti concludes that Debussy's achievement was the synthesis of monophonic based "melodic tonality" with harmonies, albeit different from those of "harmonic tonality".
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
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Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#37> In Bb doesn't run properly on mobile devices. Please use a laptop/desktop. If you'd like to try anyway please click OK. But I am running this on a laptop.
Laptops can be pretty mobile; maybe try a bulkier one?
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#38Can someone please explain why does this work? Did they agree what everyone would be playing? I am not a musician, but it seems like tempos and time signatures do not match. Or is the whole point that they didn't agree to anything upfront and it still somehow works? Are they all actually playing in B-flat?
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#39Can someone please explain why does this work? Did they agree what everyone would be playing? I am not a musician, but it seems like tempos and time signatures do not match. Or is the whole point that they didn't agree to anything upfront and it still somehow works? Are they all actually playing in B-flat?
To answer your question, let's consider the ways in which the videos do _not_ work together:
- They're not playing in the same tempo
- They're not playing the same note lengths
- They're not necessarily playing notes in the same chords
It's somewhat analogous to sitting down at a piano, holding down the sustain pedal (so that all the notes played ring out for a long time), and just playing notes in the same key. (Say, all the white keys.)
It "works" because the notes are in the same key. But note that we're not making music with any kind of groove or consistent beat. It's more like an ethereal, improvised holding out of a single chord.
TL;DR – "Or is the whole point that they didn't agree to anything upfront and it still somehow works?" Yes :)
Re: In B-Flat (2009)
#40I really enjoyed these 3 together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSfM2V8EkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7NxVpskI0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmKWkiDAm5k Great atmosphere. Makes me think of a good video game soundtrack. Interestingly they don't sound good if you only play 2 of them, you need all 3 to pull the harmony together.
I'll save time for anyone who just wanted to play the videos mentioned above from the linked page.
A4, B2, C4