Music Misc
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My work is, in short, a re-imagining of the 'anti-aesthetic-narratives' school of contemporary 'sketch-process' composition. As a rather chaotic composer, I yearn to mix, and layer serialistically-aleatoric experiences, an approach that features prominently in my recent binary works. As a primarily aesthetic artist, I aim to create the chord-structure within pseudo-absolute-aesthetics, and bring forth a single illusion that really develops the most critical issues. As a highly provocative composer, I explore the connection between players and awarenesses, and search for new ways to 'create the pattern'. The pursuit of microtonal pitch-class-tessituras to write the mostly-critical paradigm is a key focus of my digital study. To put it concisely, the flowing forms of any given source must never clash with the ultimately collaborative endeavour of sensing frequencies wherever possible.
The Contemporary Classical Composer's Bullshit Generator
The BACH motif. A musical cryptogram is a cryptogrammatic sequence of musical notes , a sequence which can be taken to refer to an extra-musical text by some 'logical' relationship, usually between note names and letters. The most common and best known examples result from composers using ciphered versions of their own or their friends' names as themes or motifs in their compositions. Much rarer is the use of music notation to encode messages for reasons of espionage or personal security (see steganography ). Because of the multitudinous ways in which notes and letters can be related, see systems below, detecting hidden ciphers and proving accurate decipherment is difficult, thus avoiding claiming the existence of inaccurate nonexistent ciphers may also be difficult.
Musical cryptogram
How To Write A Musical Drama - 9 Essential Drama Elements | Musical Workshop with Michael Kunze
Musical drama elements — in a nut shell: Overview of 9 essential strategies that made Michael Kunze’s drama musicals so successful in Europe and Japan. It is a long and rocky road from the inception to the premiere; make sure you are passionately fascinated by your story idea. Don’t follow trends…follow your heart! You dream about seeing it on stage, and you can’t wait to share it with an audience. Your initial attraction to the material becomes the inspiration for any further development. Select story ideas that offer themselves for musical interpretation, where melodies may reveal a secret garden of hidden realities.
American Theatre Wing - Larson Grants
Jonathan Larson's dream was to infuse musical theatre with a contemporary, joyful, urban vitality. Although he did not live to see it happen, his dream was achieved through the phenomenal success of his musical Rent . The Jonathan Larson Grants were created with the understanding that without the grants that supplemented Jonathan's meager income, Jonathan might never have written Rent .
Michael talks about his awakening to musical theater as a potential form of expression for his own art: “ As a producer, I was interested in the stage appearance of my acts. More and more artists of the late 1970’s began to add aspects of the theater to their performances, and I was intrigued.
Musical Master Class 2 - Discovering Musical Theater | Musical Workshop with Michael Kunze
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The Tonal Centers Page This web page contains a list of songs that have similar chord progressions and tonal shifts (modulations) and then links them to the "Vanilla Book". This is a resource for learning to hear jazz chord progressions. Most jazz standards move through different major and minor tonal centers as the song progresses.
The Tonal Centers Page
A few years ago we worked with Leif Segerstam, a composer/conductor from Finland. He had a remarkably creative way of using the English language, and as usual, I started writing my favourite quotes in our music. After a few days, I learned that several other members of the orchestra were doing the same thing. This is a compilation of our efforts.
Graham Nasby's Online Resources - The Quotations Of Leif Segerstam
Musicians have toyed around with music based on the human heart for decades, but we've never seen anything quite as ornate and mind-blowing as the Heart Chamber Orchestra . A collaboration between PURE , a music collective, and Erich Berger , an interactive artist, the performance involves 12 musicians, each of whom are wired to an electrocardiogram. Software then tracks their heartbeats, using them as fodder for both a projected visualization and a musical score, which the musicians see on laptops placed in front of them. Watch how intense the visuals get towards the end.
Orchestra Uses Own Heartbeats to Create Music and Visuals | Co.Design
Mysterium is an unfinished musical work by composer Alexander Scriabin . He started working on the composition in 1903, but it was incomplete at the time of his death in 1915. Scriabin planned that the work would be synesthetic , exploiting the senses of smell and touch as well as hearing. He wrote that "There will not be a single spectator. All will be participants.
Mysterium (Scriabin)
The Music Map: the Landscape of Music
The Landscape of Music This map of music shows relations between musicians/groups. Related musicians are closeby and in the same country. Navigate like you would with an online map. Click on any title to see a popup.The musical Sea Organ (morske orgulje) is located on the shores of Zadar, Croatia, and is the world’s first musical pipe organs that is played by the sea. Simple and elegant steps, carved in white stone, were built on the quayside. Underneath, there are 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk.