This is not a new piece, but I missed it when it came out. The piece is titled "Boris Kerner" who was a theorist of modern traffic flow theory.
And later on I ran across this one:
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Re: the Boris Kerner piece, I found the flower pot percussion an imposition, the same jail-bar effect on the music as in most pop and rock. The cellist is amazing and parts of the cello writing were beautiful to me as delivered with the resonance of the instrument so skillfully played, especially when unaccompanied. But ultimately I find the music a little sparse and either unfinished or uninteresting (to me). At least upon my first hearing, the 2 voices (cello & percussion) don't work together for me.
ReplyDeleteThis is what I would call a "post-modern" piece. Composers these days have considerable difficulty coming up with genuinely original ideas. One strategy is to combine two or more things that are not normally heard together, such as a Bachian passacaglia line (with variations) and high-pitched percussion. Never been done in this way before, so counts as original. I suppose the aesthetic idea is that each texture sheds light on the other causing you to hear them in a new way.
ReplyDeleteMost art belongs in a gallery where it can be visited, considered in context of other works somehow related, and then left there when the connoisseur goes home to the few favorites with which he has chosen to live.
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