Mirrors For Two Cellos

Lay the music flat on a table one cellist reads it normally and the other reads it upside down. I may have a few errors in this piece, I'd love critique.

Mirrors For Two Cellos

I like how you keep everything nice and simple for your purpose of playing the piece...backwards and forwards at the same time :blink: It's a neat concept, and I don't recall ever having seen or heard anything exactly like that. It's sort of a variation of the "Specularis" technique where you get to the middle of a piece, then play every pitch from the mid-point backwards as though passing through a mirror. This is more like to mirrors passing by each other :lol: And it's a fine idea.

However, if you didn't tell someone, they would never ever notice :dunno: I know I wouldn't have. The piece here is sort of a literal, Baroque like sound, and it feels rather down-to-earth. Nothing's bad, but it's all sort of ok-ish as a result. If you coupled your idea with something more atmospheric and "misty", I think the effect would be much stronger. Think, "conceptual", not "what chord progression", yknow? :)

This is nice, and it's good to see something unique like this :happy: But I think this is just a good idea that has yet to be brought to full fruition so far.

Thanks very much for all of that. I was sort of tinkering around with the idea but I'll definitely keep what you said in mind if I edit this piece or do a new one like this.

My goodness! A mirror canon!

Actually, it's a Table Canon, a Mirror Canon is the inversion, this is the retrograde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Canon)

Nice idea, but I agree with SergeOfArniVillage, there's a whole lot more you could do with it. It seems a little as though the confines of the exercise have prevented you from creating something that is still musically, or atmospherically interesting. The chord progressions are neither adventurous, nor artistically static in the 'misty' sense that SergeOfArniVillage referred to. I would def try writing another of these thinking even more about the final piece, rather than just getting the two lines to fit together. Think about it as two staves in parallel, the lower playing the retrograde, rather than one stave in two directions.

Actually, it's a Table Canon, a Mirror Canon is the inversion, this is the retrograde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_Canon)

Nice idea, but I agree with SergeOfArniVillage, there's a whole lot more you could do with it. It seems a little as though the confines of the exercise have prevented you from creating something that is still musically, or atmospherically interesting. The chord progressions are neither adventurous, nor artistically static in the 'misty' sense that SergeOfArniVillage referred to. I would def try writing another of these thinking even more about the final piece, rather than just getting the two lines to fit together. Think about it as two staves in parallel, the lower playing the retrograde, rather than one stave in two directions.

Yes exactly, I went about it only trying to get the lines to fit together and I wasn't really thinking about what it would sound like at all which was foolish. I will most definitely try to compose another one and improve on it with your advice in mind. Thank you.