This is wonderful!! One hundred years ago, in July 1921, Edgard Varèse declared "the present day composer refuses to die". I've been listening to great classical, jazz, and other music my whole life, including the works of 20th century Avant Garde composers like Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian, John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa, Stockhausen, Bertold Brecht, Steve Reich, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and others. This reassures me that composition hasn't died; it is alive, and music continues to evolve. Thank you, Jaehyuck Choi!
Rhythm and timbre. Extended technique, schematic scores. Varese. Essentially when music puts these in the foreground all the time you have highly atmospheric pieces....what amounts to a sophisticated kind of mood music. And two minutes before it ends I'll predict that it's going to just dissolve into thin air with a few mysterious otherworldly puffs of air...I was correct with just a tiny quasi flourish of the clarinet. Composition hasn't died as one observer below extols, but it has certainly calcified. There has been so much of this music since the 60's and 70's it can no longer be considered Avant Garde. This is what is being taught so this is what is being rewarded via the academic world. There is an audience that likes this music, but it is increasingly small...one reason why classical music is losing it's audience...the academic novel from the 1960's onward has alienated the general public also with it's theorizing and a formalistic approach that fetishes the sentence and convoluted structural conceits, leaving readers without real characters and real emotion, just a lot of literary games...I've said it once and I will say it again...music theory existed once to describe what composers did...now theory is dictating how composers compose and that is backwards. You must adhere to a school of thought to go anywhere. Must be conceptual in your musical thinking. Just as writing to theory in the novel creates inorganic work that is generated by intellect and not the subconscious, it will also date works once those theories become unfashionable, so it will be with music... Along with tonality much contemporary classical music has abandoned development, structure, suspense, climax and a general purposefulness...these it would say are appetites that should be denied the listener (as narrative should be suppressed in fiction)....There is in these pieces a rambling formlessness (the exploration of extended technique in the service of color, texture and timbre guides musical progress). But the problem with this approach is that these varying textures and timbres (often as they present indistinct pitches) don't have a means of transitional cohesion; so compositions are roughly divided by a rhythm dominating each section or a certain technique dominates for a minute or two and then the timbre changes to something else and they cycle through; they feel as if they might end at any time or go on endlessly. They frequently stop and start, jerk and lurch..and sections could be reversed in the order of playing and nobody would be the wiser. What is bothering is that the practitioners of this music intentionally go out of their way to avoid any kind conventional aesthetic like harmonic progression (in other words they avoid many of the things about music people love)...intentionally make the most mechanistic grating, yowling, squawking and screeching sounds and yet they are offended when you call their music ugly...Some of the pieces succeed in creating beautiful ugly but many fail at this...This piece has moments of delicacy, the 1st minute and half or two are best...but I'm not sure it transcends technique for technique's sake.
He is really 23 years old? I am ashamed. I am already 19 and didn't even do 0,1% of what he achieved already... I am really looking up to these amazing musicians and their passion!!
Don't say that, young man, you still have the chance, not like me, I am 91 already, and very shame on myself without any achievement for the whole life.
![[1DAY 1KOREA: K-PEOPLE] Ep.29 Composer CHIN Unsuk](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HDy4W7NJopo/mqdefault.jpg)
This is wonderful!! One hundred years ago, in July 1921, Edgard Varèse declared "the present day composer refuses to die". I've been listening to great classical, jazz, and other music my whole life, including the works of 20th century Avant Garde composers like Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian, John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Phillip Glass, Frank Zappa, Stockhausen, Bertold Brecht, Steve Reich, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy and others. This reassures me that composition hasn't died; it is alive, and music continues to evolve. Thank you, Jaehyuck Choi!
Very Unsuk Chin style
Rhythm and timbre. Extended technique, schematic scores. Varese. Essentially when music puts these in the foreground all the time you have highly atmospheric pieces....what amounts to a sophisticated kind of mood music. And two minutes before it ends I'll predict that it's going to just dissolve into thin air with a few mysterious otherworldly puffs of air...I was correct with just a tiny quasi flourish of the clarinet. Composition hasn't died as one observer below extols, but it has certainly calcified. There has been so much of this music since the 60's and 70's it can no longer be considered Avant Garde. This is what is being taught so this is what is being rewarded via the academic world. There is an audience that likes this music, but it is increasingly small...one reason why classical music is losing it's audience...the academic novel from the 1960's onward has alienated the general public also with it's theorizing and a formalistic approach that fetishes the sentence and convoluted structural conceits, leaving readers without real characters and real emotion, just a lot of literary games...I've said it once and I will say it again...music theory existed once to describe what composers did...now theory is dictating how composers compose and that is backwards. You must adhere to a school of thought to go anywhere. Must be conceptual in your musical thinking. Just as writing to theory in the novel creates inorganic work that is generated by intellect and not the subconscious, it will also date works once those theories become unfashionable, so it will be with music... Along with tonality much contemporary classical music has abandoned development, structure, suspense, climax and a general purposefulness...these it would say are appetites that should be denied the listener (as narrative should be suppressed in fiction)....There is in these pieces a rambling formlessness (the exploration of extended technique in the service of color, texture and timbre guides musical progress). But the problem with this approach is that these varying textures and timbres (often as they present indistinct pitches) don't have a means of transitional cohesion; so compositions are roughly divided by a rhythm dominating each section or a certain technique dominates for a minute or two and then the timbre changes to something else and they cycle through; they feel as if they might end at any time or go on endlessly. They frequently stop and start, jerk and lurch..and sections could be reversed in the order of playing and nobody would be the wiser. What is bothering is that the practitioners of this music intentionally go out of their way to avoid any kind conventional aesthetic like harmonic progression (in other words they avoid many of the things about music people love)...intentionally make the most mechanistic grating, yowling, squawking and screeching sounds and yet they are offended when you call their music ugly...Some of the pieces succeed in creating beautiful ugly but many fail at this...This piece has moments of delicacy, the 1st minute and half or two are best...but I'm not sure it transcends technique for technique's sake.
An excellent performance of an impressive and very interesting work!
He is really 23 years old? I am ashamed. I am already 19 and didn't even do 0,1% of what he achieved already... I am really looking up to these amazing musicians and their passion!!
Don't say that, young man, you still have the chance, not like me, I am 91 already, and very shame on myself without any achievement for the whole life.
Stunningly beautiful
so good...
Not a fan