inverse requiem

hi, there, here's my dive into romantics

''unbury me with those beautiful hands"

unbury me with those beautiful hands - Putfile.com

instruments: tweaked strings, piano, horns and a bit of percussion.

in memory of friend, who died burning

Hello, pliorius,

First, I'm sorry about your friend.

Second, your piece certainly sounds like a requiem. You were successful in creating a mournful mood. The use of the beating drums near the end was very effective.

Some things I might have done if I had written the piece:

I would have written some sort of melodic counterpoint along with the slow-moving notes that dominate the piece. I might also have broken away from the static quality created by the slow-moving notes, almost always played at the same rate. I might have developed some scheme for altering the rate over the course of the piece, in order to move toward a climax and then come down off the climax.

No matter, I think the piece is successful!

-Lou

thanks for your comment and opinion. i certainly wanted it to be as cold as possible, but still moving (actually, my sister said it moves her to tears), so i don't know if anything more-counter melody- in this piece would work.

it's really hard to comprehend things like death, but i remeber being at the funeral and feeling just an absurd loss. plus, we have agreed not to cry during one anothers funerals. so, hence really sober and not so much expressive music. silence beyond noise.

and i used drums as a sort of grotesque remark.

well, thanks for your time and words.

regards

I like the sickening sort of distortion you added to the beginning, I don't know if you did this on purpose, but it almost sounds as if something is actually burning, the whipping flames crackling paper and wood.

On an odd side note, I think I just learned the importance of a back story to a song. If you didn't tell me what this was about, I don't think I would have heard those things. It almost adds a surreal kind of underlying meaning behind each of the notes. Which is interesting, because I wonder what I would have thought had I not known what is was about.

I like the sickening sort of distortion you added to the beginning, I don't know if you did this on purpose, but it almost sounds as if something is actually burning, the whipping flames crackling paper and wood.

impossibility and neccessity of mourning. that is - the instrument that should play these tragic\sentimental chords is itself breaking\dying\burning. purpose was to not let be (emotion) surfaced, if you can say so.

you can, in a very self-contained manner, imagine someone asking to be unburied...

regards and takk for your time

My feelings are similar to Chairbot's. If I didn't know what the motivation for this was, I'm not sure I'd feel the same way about it.

My musical thinking is so far away from this kind of expression that I'm not sure what to say otherwise, except that this is beautifully rendered - a brittle, almost hostile kind of beauty to my ears. I can't even begin to imagine how something like this is created, but I congratulate you on setting your imagination totally free to do it.

My feelings are similar to Chairbot's. If I didn't know what the motivation for this was, I'm not sure I'd feel the same way about it.

My musical thinking is so far away from this kind of expression that I'm not sure what to say otherwise, except that this is beautifully rendered - a brittle, almost hostile kind of beauty to my ears. I can't even begin to imagine how something like this is created, but I congratulate you on setting your imagination totally free to do it.

if knowing the story helps you listening to the music, it can't be bad, can it?

i know i came to like much of music by just trying to convince myself that there is something else in it - a meaning - which comes by the a way of analogy.

it is done (which is the last part of the creative process) quite simple, when you've lived that music (techniques, sounds that bind themselves, and a certain experience to (un)bury into the movements), it is a pleasure to put it in the form.

and thanks for the great (compliment) metaphor...

Sometimes I write songs or pieces without legitimately putting a meaning behind it. I'm not thinking, oh, this represents my frustration with my parents, I'm just making music.

Though I have to say, most of my better songs are when I am mindlessly making riff's or parts to a song and I attach it to a meaning.

But my point is, I make music without meaning sometimes, does that mean I'm doing it wrong or worse than others?

But my point is, I make music without meaning sometimes, does that mean I'm doing it wrong or worse than others?

no