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Terrific piece!
Schnittke - Second String Quartet. Third year of college. That's the night my hair started falling out.
I've been following this for a while, can't wait to have time on a Friday to participate. Props for starting something and continuing it; that's a lot harder than it seems (I'm learning...)
Not sure where to find the message from Robert Raines about MAX, so just replying here -- here's my take: MAX is awesome. But everything takes a long time, and it can be very frustrating to learn (your other music software experience won't help yo...
Blown away, again. I can't overstate the importance of shsk'h in my private constellation... without your work I'd feel, musically, mostly alone.
Comment Wall (28 comments)
- At 8:50pm on June 20, 2009,
Antonio Celaya said… - Lou Harrison said something or other about composers being the people who write in all the styles. While all the styles may be valid, they can't all say the same thing. I think that one of the reasons that the 1950's -70's super serialists (and their descendants like, [shall we dare say Charles Wuorinen]) write music that is such a crashing bore is that they used a language created for the extreme angst of expressionism, when what they had to say was not expressionistic. When they tried ot angst ridden it game off like a musical 3$ bill. They were largely in comfortable academic positions, and not not emerged from pogroms and terror. Large portions of our musical culture came to confuse anxiety with profundity.
- At 12:44pm on May 6, 2009,
Antonio Celaya said…
- I enjoyed your posted pieces very much. The birds is a wonderful piece. I particularly admire your ability and daring to use whatever musical gestures or idioms suit what you have to say. Your mingling of idioms is very powerful. I am very glad that composers like you remind the rest of us that there is not intrinsic virtue in confusing any style with one's personality. Let styles be tools not an identity. We mix idioms and dialects and even borrow phrases from other languages when we speak. Why not when we make music. I hope we hear your stuff on a recording soon so we can buy it and put it on the cd player.
- At 11:58pm on November 30, 2008,
Jisei69 said… - Elliot,
a composer describing the work of another living composer with such clarity, insight and fervor : that is outrageously beautiful.
You are right, some singular sounds can be like diving boards to reach a true quality of silence, which should always be a private property of the one who listens.
Thank you.
Igor
- At 3:14am on September 24, 2008,
Marc'antonio Modaro said… - Here I am to listen to your woks Elliot ! I loved your Bird string Quartet, the Endgame study and the harmonies of the Turist, very moving piece... of course the construction built of I wash my clothes is very good too ! Bravo !!!
- At 5:41pm on September 15, 2008,
Max Stoffregen said… - Hey Eliot - I uploaded the full mp3 of Pull the Plug, and another tune called Cut and Paste if you wanna check 'em out...
- At 1:41pm on September 14, 2008,
Max Stoffregen said…
- Thanks Elliot. I listened to the hip-hop tune you did, and I enjoyed it. It's very rich with sound, and I enjoy the density of it. How did you create the beat? Did you sample some other compositions? I feel like I heard some familiar stuff in the background.....
- At 4:23pm on September 13, 2008,
Abraham Fabella said… - Thanks for your kind works and wonderful insight! I agree with what you said about polystylism today and collage in general. In today's postmodern society, I suppose artists feel free to jump from one style to the next without any sense of development. Btw, I find the progression in Endgame Study very intriguing and satisfying. Kudos.
- At 8:36pm on August 31, 2008,
Johnny & Faith said… - Why, thank you sir!
- At 11:21pm on August 29, 2008,
Chris Milmerstadt said… - Elliot, thanks so very much for your feedback of my music. I can't overstate how gratifying it is to hear from a fellow composer who 'gets' my music! No one in my 9-5 world can get anything from my compositions (nor can anyone in my family or circle of friends, for that matter).
As far as your compositions, I think they're excellent. Ouroboros, is magnificent! There are echoes of Webern's 5 Satze for string quartet (especially in mood, harmony) as well as a beautiful sense of balance and textures.
I love the section at 4:15-4:30. Great stuff Elliot.
- At 12:31pm on August 23, 2008,
Etha Williams said… - WRT my lab - We study the behavioral & molecular effects of amphetamines and amphetamine-like drugs; I work there full time during the summer (and part time during the school year). I like the people and the research well enough, but (and perhaps this isn't what you wanted to hear) I can't *stand* academia. The veiled politics and backstabbing, masked by a "we're so ivory tower, interested only in the advancement of human knowledge" just gets to me. I find the subject fascinating, and like being around people with whom I can discuss and investigate it; but the politics really puts a damper on all that. I doubt I'll end up working in academia in the long term. Maybe industry, or science journalism. But if you think you could put up with it, go for it. The research itself is certainly fascinating.
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