polytriad2

yeah.

Well, I don't know... Not my kind of thing. I mean, I love piano works, but this one is just too harsh for me... Kind of russian.

  Dpek said:

Well, I don't know... Not my kind of thing. I mean, I love piano works, but this one is just too harsh for me... Kind of russian.

Yeah, it's kinda weird. The style calls for the right hand to play all major (or minor) triads in the same position, and then the same rules with the left hand, but different chords of course. All this means is there's pretty much no key signature and some interesting restraints. I think somebody, maybe Schumann, pioneered this idea. Of course, it's not that popular. It's more of a textural experiment than melodics. Anyway, too bad you didn't like it.

cheers for the listen, though.

Hey, it's an interesting texture. Makes me think of those days when classical and jazz were crossbreeding, painting pictures of the (old) brand new New York. My thoughts (which are of course just that) is that with some more structure, you could paint a great and contrasted picture! (I'm obsessed with structure though, if you're a post-modernist you can ignore anything I ever say).

Nice, dude. I like the ideas. You make good use of chromaticism

strange but nice, kinda broody and threatening with all those 'unsolved' chords..

Cheers for the listens guys...

Really, I haven't even really made an opinion on this style yet either, let alone this piece. It's really hard for me to tell whether or not something like this is good or not... I just don't have enough experience in the area I guess.

and as for whether or not I'm a post-modernist... fuck labels like that. :laughing:

I'd like to here you do more with it, it's a good texture, and (just listened to the tunes on chloroplastic) you make some damned sweet tunes - you'll handle it right.

  chloroplast said:

and as for whether or not I'm a post-modernist... fuck labels like that. :laughing:

Very much agreed. (yes, I can use the label and call it stupid, because there are folks out there who label themselves and thus make it real enough even if poorly defined, artificial, restrictive, and just silly).

  chloroplast said:

It's really hard for me to tell whether or not something like this is good or not... I just don't have enough experience in the area I guess.

I'm sure you have more than the majority of people on this board. You're a pioneer, photosynthesizing strange new things, and we are just your taste panel, devourers soon to be devoured ourselves.

  Farcast said:

I'd like to here you do more with it, it's a good texture, and (just listened to the tunes on chloroplastic) you make some damned sweet tunes - you'll handle it right.

 

  chloroplast said:

and as for whether or not I'm a post-modernist... fuck labels like that. :laughing:

 

Very much agreed. (yes, I can use the label and call it stupid, because there are folks out there who label themselves and thus make it real enough even if poorly defined, artificial, restrictive, and just silly).

 

  chloroplast said:

It's really hard for me to tell whether or not something like this is good or not... I just don't have enough experience in the area I guess.

 

I'm sure you have more than the majority of people on this board. You're a pioneer, photosynthesizing strange new things, and we are just your taste panel, devourers soon to be devoured ourselves.

Thanks man, the encouragement is much appreciated! :kiss:

So, you think it could use structure? In what way were you thinking? I've been thinking of expanding some of the ideas more by sticking it into a sort of bastardized sonata form orchestrating it, probably with a mixture of orchestral and electronic instruments. I think that with material like this that it could turn out very interestingly...

  chloroplast said:

I've been thinking of expanding some of the ideas more by sticking it into a sort of bastardized sonata form orchestrating it, probably with a mixture of orchestral and electronic instruments.

Bastardized sonata :D Methinks nothing could possibly be more awesome. Nuff said. *salute*