Kyle

Thanks! I know Schoenberg for his atonal pieces, I hadn't heard "Verklarte Nacht" till now. Very interesting... "would be fantastic film music..." Actually, it was fulfilling a commission for a soundtrack of a documentary on the sculpture :toothygrin: "It sounds to me like it could nearly be all diatonic." Because some of the sculpture is very flat, you get big collections of minor seconds in there now and then -- which might lend to an atonal impression -- but it's all diatonic. "The sculpture has grooved surface. The grooves are quite small relative to the grander archs. This implies to me short rapid notes that move along longer archs and gestures." A very astute observation. Just as the sculpture is a pair, so is this piece. For "Infinity" I've focused on the "grander" scale, but for the other one -- "Tree of Life" I focused more on the even, quick, percussive impression of the smaller scale. It's a downtempo sample-based piece instead a romantic string piece :( You can hear "Tree of Life" here. The only difference in "arrangement" is that the sculpture controls sample offset (essentially) instead of pitch. The number of posts on this forum each day is amazing. I don't think I can keep up with everything going on... I'll definitely check this section now and then, though.

I ran into this forum on accident, and was surprised to find a community of composers actually giving some worthwhile critiques of their peers. I've never had any formal lessons in performance or composition (with the exception of a very basic theory class). Resound Infinity Techniques: Manifest Emerald Laminata, a 15m wide by 3m tall glass sculpture, as a score for three string sextets. That's all. Time to Compose: The idea took a month to mature, and was implemented and refined over a week. Structure: Directly derivative of the sclupture's structure. To my ear, around :45 a crescendo is initiated but never really fulfilled, finally resolved at 1:11. There are some other smaller themes, but that is the strongest. Obstacles: Approximating a trio of string sextets (I had in mind: two basses, two cellos, viola and violin, with some variations between sextets on who bows and plays pizz.) on a computer. Summary: A romantic string piece trapped in a twenty first century body. I'm really looking forward to hearing any criticism from people who seem to have a more traditional background. I'm also looking forward to seeing more compositions in this section :mellow:

You can approximate a score if you go to File>Export as Midi in Reason and then import the midi file into whatever program you normally use.