Awesome piece! I love how you contrasted the multiphonics with growl!!! Such an interesting texture! Also an incredible performance, kudos to the performers, they killed it!
Wow. Well done, I just picture this sense of pure unfettered emotion in both the writing and the actual performance. I want to play this, now to find 3 other saxophonists 😂
that's a question for the quartet! to be honest, i don't always know how anyone's able to pull off any of the music i write... but i definitely am always thinking about things like phrasing, grouping, and cellular gestures! i think as long as the musicians are feeling the big beat together, staying together is always possible. for the most part, the measured parts of the music don't really go much beyond groupings of 2s and 3s (or quarter notes and dotted quarters, respectively)
This is the weirdest piece I've ever heard. You thought completely differently. The notes feel more like stage direction than music cues. I'm in actual awe
this is such a cool peice, but one question. in the middle there are notes that go below where a sax can go on treble clef, how are we expected to play those?
thanks for listening, and thanks for your question! this is a C score, not a transposing score! which means what you're seeing here are the sounding pitches, and not the written ones. the written parts do not ever have notes below the available range of each respective sax.
Really interesting, the opening has some notes which sound exactly like a reversed recording. Not a sound I knew could be achieved live, let alone on a saxophone! I believe these are the "flair dramatically! sharp cutoff" notes - was there any additional technical instruction you gave to the players for that?
lol yeah, good ears! i'm a huge fan of that 'reversed piano hit' sound, and i use it maybe a little too much in my music haha. i didn't need to say any much more than the instructions i gave - i think one thing that helps is that flared crescendo, where the hairpin has those outward curves at the very end that emphasize how dramatic the sound should be. turns out it's a really easy sound to accomplish on a lot of instruments - sounds really great on brass too!
thank you! the multiphonics are all from Marcus Weiss and Giorgi Netti's indispensable resource on all things sax, 'The Techniques of Saxophone Playing'
@@bencurry3111 hahaha yeah - i put the fingerings in the individual parts and the score's front matter : P thought it'd be a bit cluttered in the full score...
I decided to try and learn how to play this but as I started, I realized that my student soprano saxophone might be so out of tune that its 1 step higher than its supposed to be or the song is written a whole step lower than its supposed to be 😭and its kind of messing me up
ahahhahaa well thanks for giving it a whirl! the score video is in C (meaning every part shows what the sounding pitch is), but if you're interested in learning the piece, contact me via my website! www.bobbygemusic.com
@@Mari-flute-pjsk the score is in c, and a lot of the tenor sax’s part is pretty low in the register, so i thought it was clearer to show that part in bass clef!
@ Oh! Yeah that makes more sense! Thank you for explaining! I’ve just never seen it written in bass clef before! I’ve seen Bari written in bass clef but never tenor! That’s really interesting!
Not very good in my opinion? It sounds like it was trying too hard to be different and it ends up just sounding like notes written on a page. Not music. Of course this is just my opinion, i don't believe it to be law or anything.
"Raucous sounds and lurching instability"--yes, that seems right for a sax quartet ;) love this
omggggg thanks for reading and listening colin wow
Awesome piece! I love how you contrasted the multiphonics with growl!!! Such an interesting texture! Also an incredible performance, kudos to the performers, they killed it!
wow thank you so much! glad you enjoyed - ~nois played the piece so so so well!
Absolutely amazing.
This Bobby Ge guy does NOT miss.
Someone needs to throw every passage that uses multiphonics in this tune in a textbook and be like “yah that, do that”
@@bobbycge 🤓
Love this piece, an incredible addition to our repertoire! Thank you for the inspirational writing!! 🔥🔥🔥
yay, i'm really glad you enjoy it!
Never though that contemporain music can sound that good...❤
hahahah turns out there's lots of really enjoyable contemporary music!
So refreshing, totally fresh, outside the box, but with actual intent!!!
Incredible! So much is being said through this composition. Beautiful writing
Recognized it as ~Nois right away - they performed this piece spectacularly!
Wow. Well done, I just picture this sense of pure unfettered emotion in both the writing and the actual performance. I want to play this, now to find 3 other saxophonists 😂
thank you !!! glad you enjoyed :D
This slaps!!!
slap tongues, even
literally@@bobbycge
sodelicious................
Great work. It gave me a couple ideas for my wind quintet
Love it!
Fantastic piece!
De mis favoritas, increíble. Espero algún día poder interpretar esta obra.
you are incredible, idk how you do it
aw thanks !!
This is incredible!!
really stunning!
Semplicemente geniale! Musica incredibile!
This is fantastic!
thank ya! nois killed!
Hell yeah!
this is stunning
Very cool. Love the harmonic chords and other extended sax techniques. Wonderful qt!
To play such a piece, you need very advanced players to say the least.
Y o Bro thats very good
Enjoyable 🎉
Impressive!
This is SO cool! The attention to detail is insane.
Fantastic piece!
So Amazing!! Wonderful!! I want to play
this is incredible! wauw!
YESSSS SO GOOD. Reminds me of the Evan Williams Saxophone Quartet 1. I'm drooling.
멋져요! 많은 도움이 되요!!!!!😻😻😻
sounds awesome!
this is so cool
this is music that questions if we really know what music is
Просто жестоко)) Класс!!!
Ge’ezus this is unearthly! Goals! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Pretty interesting
Subbed
OBRA MAESTRA
Very impressive that you guys can pull this off!
I'm just curious about counting in time... Who are you capable to manage these changes!?
that's a question for the quartet! to be honest, i don't always know how anyone's able to pull off any of the music i write... but i definitely am always thinking about things like phrasing, grouping, and cellular gestures! i think as long as the musicians are feeling the big beat together, staying together is always possible. for the most part, the measured parts of the music don't really go much beyond groupings of 2s and 3s (or quarter notes and dotted quarters, respectively)
This is the weirdest piece I've ever heard. You thought completely differently. The notes feel more like stage direction than music cues. I'm in actual awe
This is what modern classical should sound like, a perfect blend between consonants and disonants. Amazing stuff
this is such a cool peice, but one question. in the middle there are notes that go below where a sax can go on treble clef, how are we expected to play those?
thanks for listening, and thanks for your question! this is a C score, not a transposing score! which means what you're seeing here are the sounding pitches, and not the written ones. the written parts do not ever have notes below the available range of each respective sax.
Really interesting, the opening has some notes which sound exactly like a reversed recording. Not a sound I knew could be achieved live, let alone on a saxophone!
I believe these are the "flair dramatically! sharp cutoff" notes - was there any additional technical instruction you gave to the players for that?
lol yeah, good ears! i'm a huge fan of that 'reversed piano hit' sound, and i use it maybe a little too much in my music haha. i didn't need to say any much more than the instructions i gave - i think one thing that helps is that flared crescendo, where the hairpin has those outward curves at the very end that emphasize how dramatic the sound should be. turns out it's a really easy sound to accomplish on a lot of instruments - sounds really great on brass too!
Wonderful piece! Both from a compositional and performance standpoint just amazing :) Where are you deriving the multiphonic numbers?
thank you! the multiphonics are all from Marcus Weiss and Giorgi Netti's indispensable resource on all things sax, 'The Techniques of Saxophone Playing'
@@bobbycge I assume thats notated somewhere in a full score we aren’t given haha. Great work!
@@bencurry3111 hahaha yeah - i put the fingerings in the individual parts and the score's front matter : P thought it'd be a bit cluttered in the full score...
@@bobbycge And you chose correctly😂
I decided to try and learn how to play this but as I started, I realized that my student soprano saxophone might be so out of tune that its 1 step higher than its supposed to be or the song is written a whole step lower than its supposed to be 😭and its kind of messing me up
ahahhahaa well thanks for giving it a whirl! the score video is in C (meaning every part shows what the sounding pitch is), but if you're interested in learning the piece, contact me via my website! www.bobbygemusic.com
If only I could put into words how inspiring your writing is. The detail is unbelievable. Please don't stop writing!!!!!!
wowww thanks so much for saying that! really means a lot!
i didnt even know saxophones could make those sounds
lol still surprises me honestly; can't say i totally understand what the physics of it all is...
I like what I hear not what I see. Quite interesting. Room acoustics are definitely a factor, too. Quite a leap from Groove Merchant!
Just a question, why is tenor sax in bass clef? Unless I’m reading it wrong?
@@Mari-flute-pjsk the score is in c, and a lot of the tenor sax’s part is pretty low in the register, so i thought it was clearer to show that part in bass clef!
@ Oh! Yeah that makes more sense! Thank you for explaining! I’ve just never seen it written in bass clef before! I’ve seen Bari written in bass clef but never tenor! That’s really interesting!
Very cool piece, but this looks difficult as hell!
Ok but why is tenor and bari in bass clef😂
And the alto part that has low e below the bar?
lol the score is in C and not transposing! i thought it'd be easier to read since their sounding notes get pretty low, to say the least 😅
@@madeinrobux3344 this is a C score, so the written note the alto sees there is in fact a C# just below the staff.
@@bobbycge ah ok that makes sense
lowkey trash
@@Kosher_20 thanks homie ❤️🫡
Not very good in my opinion? It sounds like it was trying too hard to be different and it ends up just sounding like notes written on a page. Not music. Of course this is just my opinion, i don't believe it to be law or anything.
@@jetsettech8804 thanks so much for listening! sorry it wasn’t to your taste but i appreciate you taking the time :)