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Disclaimer: Not entirely sure this is the place for this. If it's not, please tell me and ill get rid of the thread (if an admin doesn't beat me to it) My main instrument in my music is the piano, however it's not ONLY piano. ------------------------------------------------------------------Hello, My name is Alex and I compose and produce modern classical (the ambient subgenre, i guess) I thought i'd just leave some of my stuff here since i will probably only be able to lurk here on the forums until I get my new piano so i actually have something to say. Enjoy. https://soundcloud.com/aceruleanstate/the-bright-lights-around-us-began-to-dim (piano only) https://soundcloud.com/aceruleanstate/maybe-one-day-this-will-be-just-a-memoryI'll just leave those 2 here. Seems to be the most fitting.
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Hi, ACS -- Welcome to Piano World!
Although this Forum is an appropriate area to share your work, I think two others are better. I personally consider this type of music "New Age", and in the Adult Beginner's Forum there are many people who specifically both play and listen to New Age solo piano performers. Another possible Forum is the Non-Classical one, although in practical terms that seems more devoted to jazz, ragtime, and other forms of "pop" piano music.
Your music has a soothing quality, but it's not my cup of tea, and so I won't comment on it, other than to say it was gracefully and professionally presented.
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That is BEEE. UUUU. TIFFF. UULLL.
Don't you listen to a single person tell you otherwise. Your's is cinema music. Film music. Emotion. Goldmund, Johann Johannson, Enaudi.
And YOU wrote it.
You're going to run into a lot of uppity pianists (not just online) who've spend their entire lives chasing some 200 year old song, can run up and down the 88's at light speed--but couldnt write a track to save their grandmother--and then have the hubris to disrespect modern composers like yourself who move hearts and tears on soundtracks & dove soap commercials every day. What if Choppin only wanted to play some other dudes music? Why are people hung up on this? Lord have mercy.
Ignore them. They're threatened by you... US.
I salute you.
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This made my day, one of the best written comments i've gotten ever.
Likewise, I salute you. Thanks.
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I like your music.
The first piece (piano only) is a set of variations. Where each variation is varied by rules governed by the minimalistic style(1).
If my assessment of the style and form of you piece is correct, and you dont suffer some hubris thinking that the old composers has nothing to teach you, you could study some variations from beethoven to perhaps broaden your toolbox.
(1) I say minimalistic style judging from the use of techniques such as reducing harmony, using note repetition, no melody exploration etc. I'm not at all familiary with this style so I might be wrong here.
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I like your music.
The first piece (piano only) is a set of variations. Where each variation is varied by rules governed by the minimalistic style(1).
If my assessment of the style and form of you piece is correct, and you dont suffer some hubris thinking that the old composers has nothing to teach you, you could study some variations from beethoven to perhaps broaden your toolbox.
(1) I say minimalistic style judging from the use of techniques such as reducing harmony, using note repetition, no melody exploration etc. I'm not at all familiary with this style so I might be wrong here. ...or he can make his music however he wants. ðŸ‘🼠"Correct"? ... since you have "no familiarity with the style" then you have no references from which to judge or offer critism, and shouldve just kept your opinions on 'technique & toolboxes' to yourself. This modern, comtemporary minimalist style is literally everywhere. Apple commercials, Car Adverts, anything 'trendy' or 'new'. This is also the music of film trailors--minimal notes, lots of reverb, entrances the audience IMMEDIATELY. Raises the hair on your skin. I know because Im a post-production engineer & sound design... you're lack of modern composition says more about you than us new guys. Please listen to Ludovo Einaudi "Walk" then come back with more respect. 😎 And about 'old composers' : Unless one plans on joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra or similar, or then Nope--Beethoven & Friends have nothing to contribute to programming contemporary audio, anymore than Shakespeares outdated english could help a Marketing Firm sell Laptops. Note: I enjoy some classics, my wife is enjoys learning them & has no desire to write her own music--or learn any of todays--which is fine. So Im not speaking from ignorance or disrespect. I fully acknowledge that perfecting Theory and all that is great--if one desires Im just defending the right of any Pianist to sound however the heck they want. : ) i.e. TimHecker - The Piano Drop 🔥🎹🔥
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Great discussion going on here, love it. First and foremost @larryz comment, I am completely self taught and has no interest in learning classic music, I don't gain anything emotionally wise from it, and I have only played piano for a year +some months, so there is not a lot of it i could play anyways haha. I started playing piano a bit after I started composing, I think that has affected some of the stuff I like to play and what I gain from playing said things. I recommend some Goldmund (aka Helios). I don't make exactly that style of music, but he does inspire me a whole lot. You can get a lot of feelings out of very few notes. anyways, a thing i just released, hopefully you find it pleasing. https://soundcloud.com/aceruleanstate/so-i-could-live-forever
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Brian, I have to ask were you referring to Tim as an uppity pianist? That would be a big mistake, Tim has been very supportive of living and lesser known composers (such as myself) having performed my music (and the music of many others) for a variety of audiences. I don't know what your issue is with those of us who choose to stay within the classical tradition, but I imagine it has little to do with anyone here. I thought Tim's comments were quite appropriate.
As for Alex's music it's cinematic and soothing, and fairly simple, but well produced. It would do well as movie music where the film's producer would want the music to enhance the action on the screen by not attracting too much attention to itself. If Brian finds this music appealing that's fine, I won't criticize that, but please don't criticize one of the mainstays of this forum, especially when his comments are entirely apropos.
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Thanks for the kind words Steve
Not sure if you meant I criticized Tim (in that last bit of your comment). If I did, it was not intentional, and I apologize.
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Thanks for the kind words Steve
Not sure if you meant I criticized Tim (in that last bit of your comment). If I did, it was not intentional, and I apologize. I was referring to Brian as Himself who used the term "uppity pianist." In your post you refer to yourself as Alex, so I addressed my comments regarding your music to you. Personally, I find the harmonic usage in your music very simple, you could easily enrich the harmonic content of your music and make it more emotional, but that would mean learning something about harmony. Have a listen to my piece Elegy, it has some very rich harmonic progressions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th49al2KvRQ
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Really nice song =] And yeah I'm still relatively new to all this, I've only produced for a little more than 1½ years, and I know next to no theory... Been trying to learn some, I always loose the drive to try and learn it tho.
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You're going to run into a lot of uppity pianists (not just online) who've spend their entire lives chasing some 200 year old song, can run up and down the 88's at light speed--but couldnt write a track to save their grandmother--and then have the hubris to disrespect modern composers like yourself who move hearts and tears on soundtracks & dove soap commercials every day. What if Choppin only wanted to play some other dudes music? Why are people hung up on this? Lord have mercy.
Ignore them. They're threatened by you... US. I salute you.
Hey, I'm going to jump into this fray feet first ... I don't feel that composers who have paid their dues ... in terms of diligent study of composition and actually playing their music on the instruments for which it is written ... are in any way threatened by music written as background for films and commercials. Not are they "uppity" by opting for a more durable genre. There are many genres of music. And the proof of the pudding is what has consistently drawn an audience. Not for a two or three year "fad" run ... but over decades. I believe that Beethoven stands a pretty good chance of an audience in the year 2099. Most of todays MIDI dependent composers, cutting corners on the basics of classical composition, not so much. And the great popular classics, Cats, Sound of Music, South Pacific , Phantom ... heck these are as solidly based on the classic forms as a Mozart Sonata. What is great art is always debatable. My yardstick is potential durability. I remember a "shock" show at the Honolulu Museum which included several dozen pair of chicken feet stapled to the wall. It got a lot of media attention but I'm not betting it will stand the test of time ... either from the standards of taxidermy or ... aesthetics. There is a lot of popular music written for films and background which is very soothing and mellow. Our meditation class includes a lot of it. It is a valid genre. But alas too many compsers are cutting corners with easy access to electronic media ... which is still at a fledgling state. An English teacher once told me, moments before I sat for a lengthy exam ...' Okay now ... you know all the rules. Now you can break them. DO it!" And he was quite correct. I begin paragraphs and sentences with "and" ... I use elipses with gay abandon. But I can locate exactly where I've bent the rules and give a reason why.
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I like the solo piano piece best. The theme at around thirty seconds in is excellent -
Knowledge is power and hard work is essential.
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Alex! Great stuff! For me it is simple: If it sounds right, it is right! You obviously get the emotion across. I'm open to (almost) anything. Love Bach, Stravinsky, played a lot of jazz, pop, funk, soul (on sax), even listen to techno dance stuff if it touches me in some way. I actually love the simplicity of your work. My brain is full of imaginary movies, and your music is perfect for some of them Following you.
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