New age classical music

This thread is going to be geared towards new music. Anything new musicy that you want to post here is okay too do.

So here is the thing about modern music, it's REALLY REALLY COOL. Even though there are times where it can sound like a chorus of rats, dogs, birds and small children all being thrown into a giant blender at the same time, modern composers really know how to change the way we perceive music through their inovation of new tonal techniques.

I shall start with saying 3 things that really impress me.

1. Electronic classical music. It's like techno, but without the annoying beat and voices that say stupid stuff. Instead a composer will make music using an electronic soundboard. Pretty crazy huh?

2. Tan Dun, Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra. I saw this one in concert not too long ago. In the middle of the stage there is a percussion soloist, who plays a wide range of wacky percussion instruments, but plays most of them IN THE WATER!!!! It was weird but so cool too watch.

3. R. Murray Schaffer, North-White for Snowmobile and Orchestra. Where i live, we have a thing called the New Music Festival at our local symphony orchestra. It's a celebration of New Music throughout the world. Schaffer, a Canadian composer, is one of the pioneers of what he calls "noise pollution". He says that the world is becoming too loud. So in protest to this noisy planet, he wrote a piece of music where, in the middle, a Snowmobile starts to rev it's engines. Quite the astounding thing.

This is my controbution, I hope that this will expand to be a usefull database for new composers to get some inspiration for new and wonderful music.

have fun

A lot of people find "minimalistic" stuff like Phillip Glass or Terry Riley to be boring but I think that kind of stuff is fascinating. I like to think of music like that as being reserved for hardcore music fans.