Max Vinetz - "Wax Catalog" (2023), for string quartet (JACK Quartet) [Score Follow]
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- "Wax Catalog" by Max Vinetz (2023)
String Quartet
Premiered by JACK Quartet 11/28/2023
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Movement I: left, beklemmt
Movement II: transfigured song
About the piece:
At the outset, Wax Catalog was a study of integrating Extended Heimholtz-Ellis Just Intonation (HEJI) into the fabric of my own musical language. I found the task daunting at first, and didn’t quite understand how, or even why HEJI would find its place in my own music. To make this project more personal to me, as opposed to being solely based in a musical or theoretical technique, I decided to draw musical materials from two string quartets that were formative in my music education: Bartok’s String Quartet no. 2, and Beethoven’s String Quartet in Bb Major, opus 130. I used materials from the 2nd movement from Bartok, and from the “Cavatina” from the Beethoven quartet, as these movements held a lot of emotional weight for me.
As I dug deeper into my studies, I realized that I had already been exploring just intervals in my earlier works without even thinking about it whatsoever. At this point, the compositional process began to feel more comfortable, and akin to my typical practice where improvisation and intuition make their way into my formal decision-making. Both movements of this quartet make extensive use of a technique I like to call “intentional misremembering,” in which I channel my favorite parts of the source material (as opposed to its literal, notational representation) into the final, composed music itself.
This work makes use of 5-limit, 7-limit- and 11-limit HEJI.
The title “Wax Catalog” refers to the Edison phonograph wax cylinders that Béla Bartók used to capture field recordings and thousands of folk songs from his travels to remote Eastern European villages in the early 20th century.
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Wow! I find it amazing how you have written some dissonances of just a few cents between some of the parts that I would have thought would sound extremely harsh, but somehow they are beautiful instead! Wonderful!
12:44 is amazing. Thank you, my comrade and colleague!
Wow I’m absolutely blown away; what a journey. This is so unique and heartbreakingly beautiful.
Huge bravo to the JACK quartet. I love how sometimes they don’t only sound like one instrument, but like something almost electronic.
I think this is the first time I’ve heard microtones *this* convincingly used, and the first time I’ve not felt dread at the idea of playing them. Such a moving, original sound world, congratulations!
wow. What an astounding pallet. Love your work!!!!!
Thank you so much! For your kind words and for listening!
Wow, this is just fantastic. Chills everywhere.
Thank you for a composition that gives my 440 ear enough time to adjust to and accept microtones
This is gorgeous. The composer and ensemble treat the dissonances with incredible sensitivity.
such a beautiful landscape
This deserves a string orchestration
I love this!
just jack quartet doing jack quartet things! nice work max
Thank you for this kind quartet from an italian listener. 🤩
Thanks for listening!
sodelicious.....................
This is glorious.
❤️ Thank you so so much!
A really interesting piece.
Thank you!
Not the biggest fan of microtonal music, but wow, this piece uses them perfectly. Must be hell for the quartet to tune, but damn does it sound pleasing.
Very nice, wow
Thank you!!!
Nice, you certainly have some skills as I don't generally like this type of music, but I feel like yours has emotion to it (when it's really easy to be extremely dry with this genre)
Actually that’s fire! 🔥
Liking slow and energetic parts both.
Thank you!
Incredible! I am a huge fan of microtones and this pieces is a nugget of everything! Must be hell to analyse this.
Do you think you will release it on audio platforms?
Gosh this is so breathtaking. ❤
❤️❤️❤️
@@maxvinetz so if I'm not mistaken, the thing that looks like a 7 is a septimal comma, the arrows are for just-intonation thirds, and the quarter tone symbols are for 11th partial? And what resource(s) did you use for learning about HEJI?
Hey@@XeniaStCharlesIrisLlyllyth! Yes, the 7-looking thing is a septimal comma, arrows are for just third adjustments (adjusted w/ syntonic comma), and quarter tone is 11th partial! For learning more about HEJI, check out plainsound.org/ (list of composers, resources) and this specific page masa.plainsound.org/pdfs/notation.pdf (pages 13-14 especially), which further details all of the accidentals and their HEJI adjustments. Hope this helps!
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the microtonal elements make it sound like voices singing, the intentional imperfections are perfect
How do I spot the microtonal notation in a score?
@@eltonwild5648 look closely at the accidentals, arrows indicate a general direction above the standard pitch
@@VepiumOfficiallike the arrow down in the first g natural?
@@eltonwild5648 exactly
Lovely microtones
Thank you!!!
This is gorgeous! I'm going to listen to the Bartok and Beethoven String quartets for reference too as I've never listened to them. Do you score for films too?
Thank you, hope you enjoy them! My film scoring experience is very limited but I'd love to do it someday.
Thank you, hope you enjoy them! My film scoring experience is very limited but I'd love to do it someday.
Yes ...
Incredibly moving. Difficult to not cry... That ending there, you wouldn't happen to be a fan of some of the folk music from the Danish String Quartet, would you?
Thank you so much! It’s funny you mention the Danish String quartet, I just saw them live a few months ago!
What does “ord.” mean? Beautiful composition btw!
It means ' normal ' without playing sul ponticello ( close to the bridge ) or sul tasto ( far from the bridge ).
Ord is for " ordinario " which would mean play as usual without special technique