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Hi Mark, thanks for your comment. When the penultimate tutti section came to a natural close, I could immediately hear Amazing Grace in my mind. So I included it was part of the overall work. Amazing Grace is a piece which resonates with my spirit very closely. And during this time in my life, I feel more closely to it than ever. So perhaps that is why I could hear it being sung in my imagination. "By the way the orchestra has a wonderful texture/color." Thank you. Trying to evoke powerful colours through music is something I really aspire to do. I think I still have a long way to go in achieving it. The music can go even further in trying to evoke a rainbow of sonorities . Perhaps I just need to be braver in trusting my imagination. The idea/purpose behind integrating the choral work was that
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Thank you very much. After reading yours and @MJFOBOE comment, I am going to study/listen to some music that is overtly pointillistic music so that I can immerse myself in that style more purposefully. Yes, the gospel choir joins right at the end. It was not planned beforehand. The idea just came to me at that moment. I could hear Amazing Grace in my head - and I did not not want to ignore what I could hear just because it wouldn't make immediate logical sense. If it came into my mind whilst composing, then I trust that it makes sense, somehow. Indeed, that they connect by being in the same key is merely a coincidence. If the two sections were in different keys, I would still be ok with it. "mostly quite enjoyable" makes me smile. (hopefully there is an added emphasis on the 'mostly!').
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By murphybridget · Posted
MP3 Play / pause Butterfly Net - Caroline Polachek 1:11 4:46 volume > next menu Butterfly Net - Caroline Polachek > next PDF Butterfly Net - Caroline Polachek That's a very lovely work. -
By Some Guy That writes Music · Posted
Today I was scrolling on youtube, pretty mindlessly until I came to a video that I had seen before. It was a video of a biker talking about visiting his friend, stopping by a road station to grab a beer for him. Then it cuts to him walking up a mountain, and over the hill crests dozens of crosses. And you realize his friend is not alive, and the beer was not to be drunk. And this mountain with dozens of crosses, fabric flapping in the wind, shoes dangling, and full beers at the base of each cross, was beautiful. This piece, which was a hyper fixation today, is an attempt to communicate the bitter beauty of this scene.