Absolutely adore this. As a first-year composition student at WAAPA, hearing the music local composers are writing is so inspiring. Also helps that my piano teacher recorded the piano part for your flute sonata 🤣
@macanthony1108, so glad you enjoy this. We're probably overdue to revive it in a Cygnus Arioso performance some time, as the last outing in Perth was in 2018 I think!
Indeed, I love Hosokawa’s music. In retrospect this work is an interesting meeting between his influence and what I was still striving to express from my years learning shakuhachi in Japan. There’s even a honkyoku quote in there somewhere…
Im not a musicologist but i do hear the sound world of the Japanese composers. I tend to lean more toward the radical serialists than the spectralists but i do like this.
Discovering your music has been an absolute delight! the experience of both listening and delving into the score an exquisite pleasure. Where is it possible to read more about the performance instruction? I am very interested of your notation for the strings.
Thanks for your comment! My performance instructions are not particularly extensive- this is copied from the score: Performance notes:
• Glissandi: avoid bow changes on arrival at the final pitch where possible. (This is sometimes indicated with slurs, but not always.) • Vibrato: use only sparingly in the first movement, and predominantly at the highest point of a cresc. - dim. figure. Abbreviations • SP: sul pont. • mSP: molto sul pont. • ST: sul tasto • flaut.: flautando • jeté: gently allow the bow to ricochet a number of times and continue into a single sustained bow stroke.
@jeryess88 I'm so glad you enjoyed it. My clarinet quintet is also up here, and eventually I'll upload my piano trio as well- those are from the same period.
I: 0:00
II: 4:16
III: 12:14
The unison line starting at measure 33 is so pretty
Thanks Matthew, it's such a culmination point for that whole first movement.
Absolutely adore this. As a first-year composition student at WAAPA, hearing the music local composers are writing is so inspiring. Also helps that my piano teacher recorded the piano part for your flute sonata 🤣
@macanthony1108, so glad you enjoy this. We're probably overdue to revive it in a Cygnus Arioso performance some time, as the last outing in Perth was in 2018 I think!
This is incredibly profound. I wonder if the composer is familiar with the music of Toshio Hosokawa.
Indeed, I love Hosokawa’s music. In retrospect this work is an interesting meeting between his influence and what I was still striving to express from my years learning shakuhachi in Japan. There’s even a honkyoku quote in there somewhere…
Im not a musicologist but i do hear the sound world of the Japanese composers. I tend to lean more toward the radical serialists than the spectralists but i do like this.
Thanks Stuart, appreciate your thoughts!
Discovering your music has been an absolute delight! the experience of both listening and delving into the score an exquisite pleasure. Where is it possible to read more about the performance instruction? I am very interested of your notation for the strings.
Thanks for your comment! My performance instructions are not particularly extensive- this is copied from the score:
Performance notes:
• Glissandi: avoid bow changes on arrival at the final pitch where possible. (This is sometimes indicated with slurs, but not always.)
• Vibrato: use only sparingly in the first movement, and predominantly at the highest point of a cresc. - dim. figure.
Abbreviations
• SP: sul pont.
• mSP: molto sul pont.
• ST: sul tasto
• flaut.: flautando
• jeté: gently allow the bow to ricochet a number of times and continue into a single sustained bow stroke.
@@lachlanskipworth thank you I appreciate it. I the beginning oof the piece is really beautiful and cognitively astounding"
@jeryess88 I'm so glad you enjoyed it. My clarinet quintet is also up here, and eventually I'll upload my piano trio as well- those are from the same period.