In the City

I just had to get something written. It's an (extremely) short minimalist piece meant to depict the hustle and bustle of the city, as the title suggests.

I liked this.
However, it really COULD have been considerably longer, and that, only working from the material you have already here.

For example, you could afford to repeat a few more measure!
Your opening three measures could easily have been repeated three or four times without losing any impetus.

I'd have liked you to linger a little bit longer on each individual change, let us savour each one. Which is part and parcel of minimalist writing.

And teh end could have been deconstructed a bit more... falling apart, repeating briefer elements, until one note remains.

Thanks for commenting. I do think it could be longer, and I'll probably go back and change some things to fill it out a little.

As QCC says this could be very well 5 minutes as it stands now!

If you add, for example, in the repeatitions, some bass notes here and there, or some more... random gestures (like to resemble a car passing), it would work great! Right now it is mechanical but too small!

EXPAND IT!

EXPAND IT!

PS. I hate this laptop right now. No scores, no Finale, no shit! And Vista (which work fine, btw)

I've been listening to a lot of minimalist music lately because I recently found after accidentally bringing my dad's iPod to the gym that minimalism is highly conducive to weight-lifting. But yah, I'd say the thing that almost all of those pieces have in common is how they linger on each change, and for a minimalistic piece, this runs through the changes very quickly. If you could find a way to enhance the textural depth, then you could draw out the changes a lot more. But good work!

nikolas: YES! Thank you. Vista works just fine if you aren't a complete moron, or a slave to saying trendy things like "vista sucks!!!"

I lengthened it, though not quite to 5 minutes XD More attention was paid to patterns this time, and I like it better than when I posted it before.
EDIT:
And Nik, that's a bummer. XD I hope you get to another one soon, especially since something's in it for me. haha....heh. (j/k)

YOU ROCK

Aside from that, lemme see the score kid

This piece is ubiqitous, if that even makes sense. It was just all over the place..I liked the way that both voices got a fair part in the composition. Unlike Qc, I thought it was fine at it's current length, ofcourse you could always expand it if you wish.

Again, like in my post on your etude 3, I don't have Finale on this computer, so I couldn't see the score. Agreeing with QCC, more of a pause on each segment, to make us savor the change more.

PDF score plox!

This is awesome, but I need a score. :<