nights unsettled or three nights

In this piece I had three sections of contrasting timbres. Yet they share a few common qualities:Mostly quartal harmonies, the tremelo is the common link throughout most of the piece and, secondary, pointillism.The form is very loosely ABCABC - Coda (it being a truncated BAC).I barely scratched the surface of possibilities for the electric guitar - just getting bends, good chord voicing and when to use clean and distorted was plenty. i recommend everyone explore this instrument to the fullest.One note on playback - the artificial harmonics in the viola at the end are inaccurately rendered as 4ths. They should be art harmonics where the lower note sounds two octaves higher. Also, the pres de table sound is not rendered but it gives the harp a guitar like sound.nights unsettled or three nights

nights unsettled or three nights

I personally like the unisons -- you have plenty of divergence for a lot of the piece, and I think it's a nice contrast for the atmosphere and mystery of the piece :hmmm:

Also, you clearly know your guitar -- it's a very versatile instrument. I was impressed with my brother showing me several different effects your can get from it. :D

Thanks for sharing, this is neat :)

thanks serge!

Well, I can't view the score file do to it being sibelius. But I'm listening and I like the atmosphere you have here - at least in the midi anyways. I'm not sure what the electric guitar will sound like in this. When are you planning on having a performance?

I too dig the textures you're getting here... intersting use of the pointilism.

Re: electric guitar - what guys have you checked out that are playing electric in an orchestra/chamber setting?

...

Robin -

Except for the one you just gave and Scott who has been playing for decades and is now with the orchestra playing at City opera the performance of Leonard Bernstein's only opera A Quiet City. Seems the guy is well connected and veteran.

the tremolo's reminded me of gamalan music, an interesting way to achieve a kind of sustained sound (whereas you could have simply used the sustain pedal of the guitar) nice choice!

I second jasons request to replace the Sib with a PDF.

Just when I had started digging it, the piece ended! I'd love to hear more of this type of thing. Aside from pointillism, I was thinking "spectralism" as I listened, since the varying timbres of the instruments are so striking (not to mention used as a structural device).

Thanks black orpheus --- as you know from your own experience I had limited time as I work. Originally I wanted the quartal harmonies with the melody carried by the harp to be expanded and make it clearer it referred to the melody heard earlier with guitar and viola. But I just didn't have time and energy to do that. The solution was to suggest it obliquely, break it up with a reference to the instruments strumming, then a further truncation of the melody's motive, and end with a reference to the opening pointillism but with harmonics between viola and harp which transition to the strum.

Reposted score after reading and later catching a quadruple stop impossible to do on the viola (sigh mixed up the tuning between 4ths and 5ths!!)

So check score. Flint if he were still here would have been on my case by now.

I liked it, keep it up.