Specialising and Exhibiting

Week7-Sound for Spatialisation 

I almost finished my music composition this week with my electric piano. It was a nice bright base. I composed it in a very experimental way cause I really hated improvising with a metronome. I hated on the beat. I hated repeated melodies so I did improvisation with them.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/98t4scvkbtfu3ci/sample%20piano%202.wav?dl=0

This is my mind map of what I should be doing for my project. Because of the deadline, I am focusing on the multi-channel base which would be a quite musical base. I spent time in the folly studio and small sound room, thinking of a composer and conductor’s perspective of producing music and how layers would work.

I have got Morton Feldman, Olafur Arnalds and 坂本龙一 at the moment for pianist artist reference.

Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminate music, a development associated with the experimental New York School of composers also including John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown. Feldman’s works are characterized by notational innovations that he developed to create his characteristic sound: rhythms that seem to be free and floating, pitch shadings that seem softly unfocused, a generally quiet and slowly evolving music, and recurring asymmetric patterns. His later works, after 1977, also explore extremes of duration.

Ólafur Arnaldsis an Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and producer from Mosfellsbær, Iceland. He mixes strings and piano with loops and beats, a sound ranging from ambient/electronic to atmospheric pop. He is also the former drummer for hardcore and metal bands Fighting Shit, Celestine, and others.