Agnostic Silence

This song was written in reaction to the NASA and Russian collaboration with the International Space Station.

Молчи, скрывайся и таи И чувства и мечты свои

Пускай в душевной глубине Встают и заходят оне Безмолвно, как звезды в ночи

Любуйся ими

и молчи. Как сердцу высказать себя Другому?

Как понять тебя?

Поймет ли он, чем ты живешь?

Мысль изреченная есть ложь; Взрывая, возмутишь ключи

Питайся ими

и молчи. Лишь жить в себе самом умей

Есть целый мир в душе твоей Таинственно‑волшебных дум;

Их оглушит наружный шум, Дневные разгонят лучи

Внимай их пенью

и молчи…

Tons of effort went into this song. It began with a piano performance by, Guqi. Before that, I composed the song in agnostic silence; my apartment was completely taken from me while I was in the hospital. I should have reacted 'appropriately' and fought the person that took my apartment, but instead I wrote this song.

It's my first atonal fugue. I wrote the fugue pen to paper, while my apartment was gone right there, on the spot. I gathered my thoughts, and composed the notes in order as each emotion struck my heart.

Anyway, the form is subtle. It's ABA' and the chords are the numbered set stemming from [0, 4, 6, 11] modulated in a simple way. But for brevety, you could use my website:

ATONAL FUGUE

The website will set you off on a compositional journey where the notes spiral. Try it.

Compositionally, the song was written with intense conviction of the notes rotating while each chord turns them. It's hard to recall, but if you could just sit in a room, pen with paper, and a candle; all to write music. Do it.