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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-01 02:55 [#01483942]
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A 12 tone piece (not strict) for flute, oboe, and piano.

Watching Flowers Wilt

Enjoy!


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2005-02-01 03:30 [#01483953]
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sounds like I am watching a scary drama tv show from the 80s


 

offline zero-cool on 2005-02-01 03:44 [#01483960]
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offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-02-01 05:13 [#01483987]
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very nice and sounds proffesional - but too sad for me :(


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-02-01 06:58 [#01484042]
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it sounds a bit too pretentious for me, sorry


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-02-01 08:39 [#01484136]
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I hope thats not real piano because if it is, whoever is
playing it is very bad. I don't like it... the third
instrument to come in, I assume its the flute? Sounds
horrible. Maybe you made this to be played on live
instruments in which case it might work a bit better. It
does sound a bit like an 80s daytime soap scene in which
someone investigates something in the dark and possibly
finds an incriminating photograph.


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2005-02-01 08:54 [#01484146]
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offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-01 09:04 [#01484152]
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thanks for listening guys :)

dannn_ yeah, its done on the computer, so there is a lot
missing from a real performance.

just curious what you mean by the piano playing being bad?
If you are refering to the anticipated notes, thats
intended.


 

offline blrr from the block on 2005-02-01 09:09 [#01484154]
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is it serial or just atonal? I really doesn't sound serial
at all to me.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-01 09:12 [#01484155]
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its serial. I just constructed the row to have tonal
implications. (which is why I say its not strict)



 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-02-01 09:14 [#01484157]
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The piano, it seems like the keys are being hit too hard...
some parts it sounds like just random notes being played
again and again


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-01 09:25 [#01484169]
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"some parts it sounds like just random notes being played
again and again"

thats 12 tone for ya :D

but yeah... it was sequenced, so theres a lot of stuff that
is missing, including proper performance techniques etc.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-02-01 09:27 [#01484171]
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A TV show done by roman polanski. :D

*currently listening*


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2005-02-01 09:39 [#01484179]
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overall i found it to be an enjoyable track. I liked what
you did with it. Are you more or less making music like this
now? I remember when you were making ambient. Do you still
do that or are you looking to add (Stuff like this?) to it?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-01 09:59 [#01484198]
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well, Im doing a duel major in composition and music
sythesis... and for the composition major, only
chamber/orchestral works are allowed... so it all has to be
real instruments.

this piece was for class, and its this instrumentation
because these are the players that were availible to read
the compositions.

Im still doing ambient, but yes I would like to add more
orchestral elements to it. Not over the top, but subtle
stuff. Do you know the Solaris soundtrack, by cliff
martinez? Something like that, mixed with more synths and
sounddesign/soundscape stuff.

this is the first real 12 tone piece ive written, and while
it was very interesting, I dont think its for me. I like
sustaining chords and slight harmonic changes... the
constant motion of the tones without repitition until the
cycle completes can be frusterating at times. It certainly
is good for coming up with new sounds etc, and I could see
myself incorperating some of the techniques into other
works, but no straight up 12 tone pieces.

Im glad you liked it btw :) Thanks for listening!


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2005-02-01 23:14 [#01484744]
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bewwp


 

offline zero-cool on 2005-02-02 06:06 [#01484846]
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700 miligrams of cum injected into my veins


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-02-02 14:16 [#01485326]
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Maybe I missed what you were trying to do here because I
don't know what 12 tone means...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 14:43 [#01485343]
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indepth explination

but the basic idea is that you make a "row" of pitches,
using all the 12 availible notes. how you order them,
defines the overall sound you will get.

you then use this row (and all the various inversions,
retrogrades, and transpositions) to write music with.

one of the main rules, is that you do not repeat a note
again, until youve gone through the entire sequence of notes
first. You can develop both chords and melodic lines this
way, and you may also combine the various row
transpositions, inversions, and retrogrades in any way you
feel.

in strict 12 tone writing, you try to avoid any tonal
implications, however many composers have used the 12 tone
technique in tonal ways.

my piece is oodles of tonal implications, which is why I
said it was un-strict. But I am still following the basic
concepts and rules of the 12 tone.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 14:47 [#01485344]
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*the point of 12 tone, is to free the use of intervals
without expected resolution, like in traditional harmony.
its the relationship from one pitch to another that is
emphasised, and not a "harmonic motion" etc.


 

offline Dannn_ from United Kingdom on 2005-02-02 16:02 [#01485383]
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Wacky stuff.

sounds like it probably worth ignoring


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-02-02 16:27 [#01485418]
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i like webern though


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-02 16:29 [#01485420]
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that sounds interesting. i should try it sometime...
thanks for explaining it here.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:33 [#01485553]
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webern was a genius.

sorry my first attempt at something he did all his life
doesnt live up. :-P


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 18:37 [#01485557]
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You must know that it's the most un-emotive shit ever. 12
tone is a technicality that's bullshit. Did you expect any
positive results from heare or were you going to rejoice in
their ineptness?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:43 [#01485566]
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I think you are very wrong.

Sure, some of it can be, but some of it can be amazingly
beautiful too.

And it is a dying/dead form.... some people still use it,
and mostly its only little concepts here and there... but to
say all of it as a whole is crap, well thats just idiotic.

This piece was an assignment for class. Kind of like writing
a fugue just for the educational value, thats how this
assignment was... for historical perspective. So im not
defending 12 tone with my life here... its just I think to
say its all unemotive shit, is silly.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 18:47 [#01485570]
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Don't answer honestly! I'm being silly.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:48 [#01485573]
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youre silly.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-02-02 18:49 [#01485574]
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william orbit would be so proud...


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:49 [#01485576]
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youre william orbit.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 18:50 [#01485577]
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I'm not here to discuss my music that's for sure


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-02-02 18:51 [#01485579]
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hehe,
it's just he said that the system was just just a means to
an end of making music and this sounded a bit to much let's
make something pretentious.
i really digged your la mia mente though, as i stated before



 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:51 [#01485580]
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and?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 18:53 [#01485584]
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I think the term "pretentious" is thrown around a lot, and
in quite literally, a very pretentious way.

:D


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 18:57 [#01485590]
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Don't 'Zeus'. your music whether it was interpretated
through live musicians was shit! Emotivley it means
absoloutley nothing. Have you heard 'Contact' by bridget
Bardot? That has more to say tonally than any pseudo
nonsense you seem to be in to. I'm trying not to be
horrible to you but there's more to music than the academic
interpretation of emotion.


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-02-02 18:57 [#01485591]
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the idea behind the series is, i figured, you get as little
repetition of notes as possible, hence it's the most
difficult to make catchy stuff, hence it's better if you do
anyway


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-02-02 18:58 [#01485592]
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neither am i. but if you think for a moment, you have to
understand that some people like to nurture their groovy
distortions otherwise their musical ideas will freeze.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:01 [#01485593]
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Stop it! I'm sure the pioneers of the hypnotic groove would
make them freak.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-02-02 19:01 [#01485594]
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what i'm trying to say is if you want your music to advance,
you have to be unafraid to linger around here, otherwise you
become all tied up & shut down


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:03 [#01485596]
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I know this! I'm going to probe other vents of my silly
mentokness.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 19:03 [#01485597]
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thats true, the music is there... but there is something
thats lost from computer mockups of music, or else players
would become pointless, and software would rule.

if you dont like it, thats fine. but please dont assume that
Im into some soulless academic ideal of music. If that was
the case, I wouldnt spend a lot of my time on an electronic
music msg board. I think there is a lot of interesting
things in academic music, that id like to apply to my own
music, and thus I study it. Which inevitably means that I am
required to write music according to an academic standard
for my courses. but you are very, VERY wrong if you think I
am obsessed with, and living in a world of academic music.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-02-02 19:05 [#01485598]
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hmm.. it sounds a lot like free-jazz... you should have had
a upright bass instead of the oboe, though... it's a good,
but not great track... much like this jazz-concert I was at
last saturday (drums, bass, sax.. I don't really like
sax-sound...). It was.. OK.

it's dark in a way that would justify immense amounts of
reverb and jan garbarek on horns, which isn't bad, nor good,
but the song is merely a skeleton as it is now, isn't it?
the pianoman, a drummer and a guy on upright bass
(figuratively speaking) would make a classic trio, and these
often sound pretty damned good (which is the reason there
are so many of them), so if you change the instruments and
add some nice impro-drums, the entire mood of the track
could change... and if I were you, I'd record the piano
notes with midi or preferrably a real piano to make them
sound more "natural."


 

offline big from lsg on 2005-02-02 19:08 [#01485599]
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are you allowed to use hackzed software you might have for
assignments zeus?


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:08 [#01485600]
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Ha Ha! My girlfriend has done your course and she's a
'Master' at the moment. She studied in Boston, London and
Amsterdam. I'm not trying to be - little your efforts. I
think it's great! You've got to take critisism at face
value not at your life plan.


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 19:09 [#01485601]
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well, the instrumentation was based solely on the players
that we had to perform the pieces in class.

as for the piano... I could have gone into a lot of editing
detail, but we werent turning in a recording... we were
turning in music to be read and performed... I just put this
together to get peoples feedback on the basic musicality of
it.

Thanks for listening!


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:15 [#01485604]
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Can you post a sibelieus file for fun?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 19:15 [#01485605]
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wtf. I wrote a reply, and realized I hadnt click on your #,
and when I did, it cleared my response! Bah!

What I had said though, was I just tend to get pissed easily
when people tend to assume they know my thoughts on music
and etc, based solely on the fact that I study music (and it
happens a lot actually... its fucking annoying.) So I can
get snappy about it, easily...

I do appriciate your feedback, and so Im sorry for being
snappy with you.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:16 [#01485608]
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Forget it. My spelling is crap! Do you work in Sibelius?


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2005-02-02 19:19 [#01485612]
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I do! score


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2005-02-02 19:29 [#01485627]
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I need loads of passwords and that



 


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