Etude no. 1: Introduction

An etude is a type of musical study -usually for a performer. For modern uses of the form, however, we often see composers utilizing the form to tackle different compositional obstacles that deal with 'voice' or 'technique'. 

That said, in following with the historic usage of the form, I decided to write a series of etudes to provide vehicles to explore fusing differing modern techniques within my own musical language. I'm only sharing this on here at the request of @Thatguy v2.0

Yo

Very cool piece, you have a really great voice. It's dissonant, but not over my head, if that makes sense. I like your strong sense of motivic unity, everything seems to fit accordingly and nothing feels out of place. The themes are very clear, and one thing I like about your particular language is that it never feels like it gets buried in absurdity. I just mean you give lots of room for the textures to be dissonant, but it's not convoluted in a bunch of dissonant dense harmony. You take great care in that, really balancing how thick or thin the music is. 

Your transitions are really cool too, I especially like bar 78 to the end. 

I see you're from Indy? I used to live in the Kokomo/Peru area north of there 😄

Well done, and thanks for sharing!

Nice job!  I like this language.  It's kinda Bartok meets Hindemith.  I think your use of a dissonant language is well mediated by different kinds of repetition that create motivic associations and rhythmic and harmonic interest.  This is very interesting and quite musical!  Thanks for sharing.

I think this is fresh and beautiful.