Here’s a wonderful little piece of music I created by accident, 51 seconds long. Take a listen to it, and then click here to learn what it is.
Unintended Consequences
September 27, 2009 By
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Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Here’s a wonderful little piece of music I created by accident, 51 seconds long. Take a listen to it, and then click here to learn what it is.
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Is there any possible way Bach DOESN’T make sense?
KG replies: It’s true. We should just play all his works at once.
It sounds like the ghosts of Ligeti and Nancarrow jointly haunting a digital piano.
I kid you not. My first guess was Prelude 1 played at super speed in different keys.
KG replies: I wish I had promised a box of Padron cigars to the guesser of the secret, so I could send it to you.
http://is.gd/3JOKv
gone over to the side of new complexity, Kyle ?
KG replies: Hey, there’s always been a lot of complexity in my music – the fun kind, not the anal kind.
So that’s why they call it “Quicktime.”
A couple of days ago, I Twittered, “the experience of accidentally starting up multiple YouTube tabs may be the great ‘found music’ development of our time.” This after accidentally starting up two tabs of a “La Campanella” video at once.
Here’s the “John Oswaldian” canon that resulted.
And, a few days before, four simultaneous sopranos in a Ned Rorem quartet:
My first reaction was that I thought I heard a snippet of the Star-spangled Banner at the very end (mi-re-do, then an octave drop to mi) – kind of like hearing the Marseillaise echoed at the end of “Feux d’artifice.”
Sounds great.
Bizarrely, I tried out something almost identical a couple of months ago with some Glenn Gould recordings (of fugues). I think the thing I like is how consonant it gets toward the end.
Listen here: http://soundcloud.com/lawrencedunn/gould-fugues
L.