Thanks for watching!! For those interested, the score is now available for purchase on JW Pepper. www.jwpepper.com/burnt-trees-will-never-unburn/11558398.item
@@hanhitchen2024 oh my word. They are amazing! Seeing some of those things in there that are all freaky, sound like violins, and have no actual notes, but are still being played is insane!
Been playing for 10 years. Playing collegiately now. Work on your overtones. The scratchy noises can be made through overtones and carefully sliding your bottom lip up and down the reed. Like Leo P.
This sounds really good, I like the incorporation of techniques that aren't used in classical music for saxophone. As a saxophonist I would absolutely play this given the opportunity. Great job!!
the feeling of loneliness and isolation came through very clearly at the end, the air in the alto felt like the wind which often accompanies an empty expanse, the the fading soprano and bari felt like some last dying breaths, or cries, almost like a memory. Loved the piece a bunch, amazing work, even if I tie a lot of the symbolism into my own interpretations.
I can't wait for the 1yr/5yr/20yr follow-up music, thank you for your sonification. They say time heals all wounds but I find that we more grow through what we go through, growing past the pain but acknowledging it in a way mankind has yet to grasp. Don't forget yourself amongst the collective forest, you are enough and valuable as you are and metaphorical forest fires are a part of nature.
Wow this is amazing on so many levels! The concept, the creative scoring, the incredible performance. As a former tenor sax player and amateur composer I am completely blown away- you've showcased a range of cold and warm timbres that I didn't even realise saxophones could make together. Plus the storytelling is executed perfectly. Absolutely brilliant, a huge congratulations to everybody involved ♥
My quartet bought the score back when it came out 2 months ago and we are having a great time putting it together for our final quartet recital in about a month! Thank you so much for writing this amazing piece we love it!! Sincerely, The Magnolia Quartet🌸
I'm so happy to hear this! I'd love to know more about your performance. Feel free to use the contact page on my website. Thank you, Magnolia Quartet! 🌸💐🌺
The thumbnail including the scribble notation caught my attention. I'm usually not a fan of contemporary music for saxophones, but I enjoyed this. The extended techniques were tasteful and really leant to the meaning of the piece effectively. I honestly hate multiphonics on saxophone because, usually, they are so brazen and piercing to the ear, but in this context, I liked them a lot! The chords with microtones were really unique and harrowing. I've read all of the comments, and you mentioned "teeth on the reed" when talking about the scribble notation. Are the players really playing like that in the recording? Or was that just a visual you gave the commenter who asked? I can play overtones like that, but with my teeth on the reed? ... I've never tried playing like that or heard of that so I'm just asking for clarification. I'm asking for specifics because I might buy this to play in my collegiate quartet, and I'd just like to know the specifics on that. Really unique and awesome piece! Also, I'm sure you knew when writing a piece like this that there would be haters, but, the hate just comes from a place of ignorance, an untrained ear, and a closed mind. So, block those comments out, and focus on the good ones! Great work! We need new music for saxophones desperately, so keep making it!
Thank you so much for this sweet comment! To answer your question regarding teeth on reed: Joshua Hyde has a great video going into detail on how to do it, which I used as my main auditory resource. I believe it does literally involve the teeth touching the reed, though I could be mistaken. Hope this helps!
My friend and I had the deepest discussion about this piece last night!! The story behind it could not be portrayed any better, like every aspect of it is so perfect 🙌 this piece makes me want to learn saxophone, it's actually perfection
My best friend just performed this as part of her quartet recital and I was blown away. The soprano and baritone both moved to the back of the lecture hall towards the end and this piece becomes all the more eerie when saxes are coming at you from four different directions. Incredible piece.
this is awesome, love every single bit of its enchantingly melodic while being haunting and also driving but also clumsy at same time, its menassing but contained. simply awesome❤
I'm not a contemporary music fan usually (a lot of contemporary composers love their precussive tonguing) but this one felt oddly enjoyable to listen to. I wish I could have listened to it in person!
This is a very interesting piece with lots of good uses of extended techniques. As a developing composer, I occasionally try out extended techniques. I feel like they are very hard to get right. The way they are incorporated here is just flawless. I think this is the best marriage of traditional playing and extended techniques. The balance is great and it really sells the concept. I was very moved by a piece that I was not planning to listen to today. The odd name and good thumbnail has done you great justice. On a separate note, I hope you submit this piece to contests/conferences, because it’s very unique and would grow like a forest fire.
This... is remarkable. I've never heard of such a contemporary piece that carries such primal emotion within it - created not through complex harmony, but really the lack thereof (you catch my drift?). It makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable listening to it, but not because I think it's pretentious or nonsensical, it makes me feel uncomfortable because it feels all too real.
I love you’re music man, you capture emotion with such raw honesty. I’m glad this piece is getting attention! All of you’re work is amazing and deserves to be recognized.
I'm glad I switched to vocal focus in college... if i were to go for my master's in sax performance I would've had to learn stuff like this LOLL no but fr dude this is actually super cool. I don't play sax as much anymore but this piece has weirdly enough irked that craving for it again... super haunting and genuinely disturbing stuff and I mean that in the best way.
I’ve never heard a piece like this or that uses contemporary techniques mixed with traditional techniques in quite this way. I typically don’t like contemporary music, but this evokes such visceral emotions of loneliness and pain and I’ve never had a piece do that to me before. Remarkable stuff! Thank you for sharing it!
I greatly admire that this piece is based on something very personal, though I am of course deeply sorry that your family went through that experience. The piece is wonderfully haunting. Congratulations and best wishes
Holy shit. This is truly a beautiful piece, and also massive props to the performers for playing those microtonal multiphonics. Also, once again, this composition is one of the most haunting, yet beautiful pieces i’ve ever heard (and seen ig). It truly gives the vibe that the description describes.
So happy to hear that! I’d love to hear more about the performance. If and when you get program info feel free to contact me with the details through my website. ☺️
Don't listen to the negative comments. Music can take many different forms-- given the story in the description (I'm sorry for what happened to your extended family by the way) and the overall tone of the piece, it's clearly meant to be evocative and unsettling, and it excels tremendously in those regards. It takes a lot of courage to pour your heart out and make something unique, it's commendable that you were not only able to do that, but do it well, too
Just take out the articulation and make it all fortissimo and you have my bass clarinet / bari - tenor sax section in highschool. We made all kinds of noises that definitely could only be depicted with lines on sheet music. My buddy undid a tension mechanism on one of his valves and he’d pluck the pin and it’d make this really short high pitched buzz and it’d be so funny when it’d get silent for a second and that’s the next thing you hear.
Thanks for watching!! For those interested, the score is now available for purchase on JW Pepper. www.jwpepper.com/burnt-trees-will-never-unburn/11558398.item
ples upload this on spotify 😁
im sorry did you play this or is it midi? I need to know if some of these freaky violin things are possible to play or not
@@TheUltraMac all live performers! This recording was done by the phenomenal sax quartet, Project Fusion.
@@hanhitchen2024 oh my word. They are amazing! Seeing some of those things in there that are all freaky, sound like violins, and have no actual notes, but are still being played is insane!
5 yr old me hearing violins do spooky trills in movies: 😮
4:37 - adult me realizing saxophones make it feel absolutely dreadful and terrifying: 😶
Listen to Nono Ligeti and Xenakis, and a Polish one I believe which I forgot the name of,,
Average NBA stadium:
Ah yes, a sound best described as a mix of a horse and tires
@@Aleksandr_SkrjabinPenderecki?
@@yat_ii Nope, I mean this guy with "Czer" in it I think,,
i like how it’s actually instructed to go backstage and choke your instruments to death
Seismologist: getting some interesting activity
Saxophonist: I can play that
HOW ARE YOU EVEN SUPPOSED TO PLAY THAT?! I’ve been playing the tenor sax for three years and I’m dumbfounded from this piece.
Honestly just start practicing making weird noises
@@bestbrassDCII guess I should just ask the people in my music class who play tenor cause they sound like a boat horn.
Been playing for 10 years. Playing collegiately now. Work on your overtones. The scratchy noises can be made through overtones and carefully sliding your bottom lip up and down the reed. Like Leo P.
3 years is still pretty new when is comes to an instrument
@@BOBO-wt7yi it is, but it’s never to early to start developing the chops for those more advanced techniques such as overtones.
This sounds really good, I like the incorporation of techniques that aren't used in classical music for saxophone. As a saxophonist I would absolutely play this given the opportunity. Great job!!
My eyes cannot unsee this, my ears cannot unhear this.
the feeling of loneliness and isolation came through very clearly at the end, the air in the alto felt like the wind which often accompanies an empty expanse, the the fading soprano and bari felt like some last dying breaths, or cries, almost like a memory. Loved the piece a bunch, amazing work, even if I tie a lot of the symbolism into my own interpretations.
Bro these chords and clashes give me shivers. AMAZING job man!
I can't wait for the 1yr/5yr/20yr follow-up music, thank you for your sonification. They say time heals all wounds but I find that we more grow through what we go through, growing past the pain but acknowledging it in a way mankind has yet to grasp. Don't forget yourself amongst the collective forest, you are enough and valuable as you are and metaphorical forest fires are a part of nature.
Great. Now I'm going to humming THAT all day.
😂
Y'know its bad when the sheet music starts looking like what my doctor prescribed me
Wow this is amazing on so many levels! The concept, the creative scoring, the incredible performance. As a former tenor sax player and amateur composer I am completely blown away- you've showcased a range of cold and warm timbres that I didn't even realise saxophones could make together. Plus the storytelling is executed perfectly. Absolutely brilliant, a huge congratulations to everybody involved ♥
What is the story? Like a tree burning?
@@elijahcampbell7815 Check the description.
@@mirrortarget5729 oh. That’s pretty good then. Nice.
My quartet bought the score back when it came out 2 months ago and we are having a great time putting it together for our final quartet recital in about a month! Thank you so much for writing this amazing piece we love it!!
Sincerely,
The Magnolia Quartet🌸
I'm so happy to hear this! I'd love to know more about your performance. Feel free to use the contact page on my website. Thank you, Magnolia Quartet! 🌸💐🌺
Congrats on your performance tonight!
This is absolute gas, keep slaying the day king
This is absolutely incredible, I've never heard anything like this for saxophone. Thank you!
The thumbnail including the scribble notation caught my attention. I'm usually not a fan of contemporary music for saxophones, but I enjoyed this. The extended techniques were tasteful and really leant to the meaning of the piece effectively. I honestly hate multiphonics on saxophone because, usually, they are so brazen and piercing to the ear, but in this context, I liked them a lot! The chords with microtones were really unique and harrowing. I've read all of the comments, and you mentioned "teeth on the reed" when talking about the scribble notation. Are the players really playing like that in the recording? Or was that just a visual you gave the commenter who asked? I can play overtones like that, but with my teeth on the reed? ... I've never tried playing like that or heard of that so I'm just asking for clarification. I'm asking for specifics because I might buy this to play in my collegiate quartet, and I'd just like to know the specifics on that. Really unique and awesome piece!
Also, I'm sure you knew when writing a piece like this that there would be haters, but, the hate just comes from a place of ignorance, an untrained ear, and a closed mind. So, block those comments out, and focus on the good ones! Great work! We need new music for saxophones desperately, so keep making it!
Thank you so much for this sweet comment! To answer your question regarding teeth on reed: Joshua Hyde has a great video going into detail on how to do it, which I used as my main auditory resource. I believe it does literally involve the teeth touching the reed, though I could be mistaken. Hope this helps!
I'll definitely go and check that video out, thank you :)@@hanhitchen2024
I aint reading allat
Who?@@Kolblucky
@@saxboss9738 I aint reading allat
My friend and I had the deepest discussion about this piece last night!! The story behind it could not be portrayed any better, like every aspect of it is so perfect 🙌 this piece makes me want to learn saxophone, it's actually perfection
finally! chamber music you can dance to!
The end with the squiggle notes kinda sounds like our saxophone sectionntrying note to squeak and biting the reed instead
there is quite literally biting of the reed happening in that part
My best friend just performed this as part of her quartet recital and I was blown away. The soprano and baritone both moved to the back of the lecture hall towards the end and this piece becomes all the more eerie when saxes are coming at you from four different directions. Incredible piece.
Thank you so much! So glad you got to hear it live. I tuned into the stream and they absolutely nailed it.
The view the sound creates is truly unique.
The high pitch notes were excellently balanced, dynamic and fitting into the theme.
Saxophone spectralism, wonderful
this is awesome, love every single bit of its enchantingly melodic while being haunting and also driving but also clumsy at same time, its menassing but contained. simply awesome❤
4:12 my shoes on a bad day
these saxophones are being taken to the extreme!
beautiful and invigorating piece. jaw dropping. please never stop composing
I'm not a contemporary music fan usually (a lot of contemporary composers love their precussive tonguing) but this one felt oddly enjoyable to listen to. I wish I could have listened to it in person!
This is a very interesting piece with lots of good uses of extended techniques. As a developing composer, I occasionally try out extended techniques. I feel like they are very hard to get right. The way they are incorporated here is just flawless. I think this is the best marriage of traditional playing and extended techniques. The balance is great and it really sells the concept. I was very moved by a piece that I was not planning to listen to today. The odd name and good thumbnail has done you great justice. On a separate note, I hope you submit this piece to contests/conferences, because it’s very unique and would grow like a forest fire.
This... is remarkable. I've never heard of such a contemporary piece that carries such primal emotion within it - created not through complex harmony, but really the lack thereof (you catch my drift?). It makes me feel incredibly uncomfortable listening to it, but not because I think it's pretentious or nonsensical, it makes me feel uncomfortable because it feels all too real.
I love you’re music man, you capture emotion with such raw honesty. I’m glad this piece is getting attention! All of you’re work is amazing and deserves to be recognized.
I'm glad I switched to vocal focus in college... if i were to go for my master's in sax performance I would've had to learn stuff like this LOLL no but fr dude this is actually super cool. I don't play sax as much anymore but this piece has weirdly enough irked that craving for it again... super haunting and genuinely disturbing stuff and I mean that in the best way.
This genuinely put some fear in me... holy heck thats amazing
I’ve never heard a piece like this or that uses contemporary techniques mixed with traditional techniques in quite this way. I typically don’t like contemporary music, but this evokes such visceral emotions of loneliness and pain and I’ve never had a piece do that to me before. Remarkable stuff! Thank you for sharing it!
You picked a great subject to showcase an unusual technique, great job!
amazing composition! very interesting
I thought the lines were a joke, but man the trills at the end I wasn’t expecting
Such a genuinely heartbreaking piece. You're doing amazing work!
This looks like if someone who didn’t know what music transcription was tried to write this down.
Good piece btw
It made me recall when i heard that one oddly noisy train door, when i hit the dish with cutlery the wrong way and when i sneeze sometimes...
This is harrowingly beautiful
I greatly admire that this piece is based on something very personal, though I am of course deeply sorry that your family went through that experience.
The piece is wonderfully haunting.
Congratulations and best wishes
this made me cry…masterfully done.
this is hauntingly beautiful. im going to be thinking about this for a while.
Holy shit. This is truly a beautiful piece, and also massive props to the performers for playing those microtonal multiphonics.
Also, once again, this composition is one of the most haunting, yet beautiful pieces i’ve ever heard (and seen ig). It truly gives the vibe that the description describes.
Listening through this piece gave me some genuine chills. Incredibly well done.
Literally the title and music confirmed something uncanny and unsettling like an A24 horror
That was fantastic. The very end reminded me of a hurt dog crying.
i love how in 12 the chord sounds blissful, almost like they try and bond but it doesn't happen, same with 24
Love the spectral approach to saxophone
Exceptional, thank you.
i don’t know what i just listened to,, but it was cool (and terrifying) asf so,,, well done man
Such A Refreshing MasterPiece! Bravo Maestro. Cheers From México City!!!
This is a hell of an amazing piece of music!
This is amazing. A similar thing happened to my family so listening to this after reading the description I really felt like i got it
Planning to perform this for an ensemble festival with my quartet 🙏
So happy to hear that! I’d love to hear more about the performance. If and when you get program info feel free to contact me with the details through my website. ☺️
stunning and unpredictable!
I love what you do and what you stand for. ♥️
Listening to this made me feel like something was about to give me the stabby stabby special
Incredible, sounds straight out of taxi driver or another of scorceses masterpiece. I hope we get to hear you in cinema someday
You have created something unique, difficult and very compelling. Thank you 💗
this sounds incredibly cool! definitely felt what you were describing in the description.
A hundred window's cleaned at once.
WHAT A AMAZING WORK OF ART. WOW.
This is exactly how I feel rn
Love it!
this is sick as hell. some moments in particular are just so beautiful. well done👌🏻
very cool piece of music
this piece is horrifying. excellent
That was terrifying! WOW!
This is beautiful.
i'm always thinking about this piece
This song is actually so cool
as a marching percussionist I have no idea what any of this is
as a jazz saxophonist i also have no idea what any of this is
Don't listen to the negative comments. Music can take many different forms-- given the story in the description (I'm sorry for what happened to your extended family by the way) and the overall tone of the piece, it's clearly meant to be evocative and unsettling, and it excels tremendously in those regards. It takes a lot of courage to pour your heart out and make something unique, it's commendable that you were not only able to do that, but do it well, too
this is incredible!!!
great sound e great execution!!!
very powerful. i love the way you arrange for the sax quartet.
The sheer eeriness from just one instrument i previously only associated with jazz and that one song that everyone associates with sex is eye opening
i hate that i love this because now i gotta try the bari part..
Didn't know you could play doctors handwriting on a saxophone...
Also, this video made me fear squiggles.
Me when I be pushing an old cart down a hallway
I love this so muchh🔥🔥🔥
Una locura!!
Estas demente!! 🧙🏼♂️🧙🏼♂️🧙🏼♂️🧙🏼♂️
Well done.
This i s amazing, you really express the emotions!!! I love it!!!
awesome, reminds me alot of henry cow especially their live renditions of songs
I love measures 7-12 sounds like a classic movie score
Completely and absolutely brilliant!
i adore the sound design in this
This is amazing! It belongs in a movie!
That was amazing. Thank you.
That’s the most hippy thing I’ve ever seen
I am genuinely in fear just by the first minute and I don't usually get scared like this. I love it! 🎅🤌
thrilled to be subscriber 100, those chords are beaut
yo this is what I be feeling in the Minecraft caves
crunchy chords nom nom nom
Amateur composer and this is blowing my mind. Well done Ser.
Absolutely gorgeous piece ❤
Just take out the articulation and make it all fortissimo and you have my bass clarinet / bari - tenor sax section in highschool.
We made all kinds of noises that definitely could only be depicted with lines on sheet music. My buddy undid a tension mechanism on one of his valves and he’d pluck the pin and it’d make this really short high pitched buzz and it’d be so funny when it’d get silent for a second and that’s the next thing you hear.
Also i relate hard to the description, hope you're doing alright