My piano sonata

[tariswerewolf]

Last year, I wrote my first piano sonata. It is a serial work and I'm rather proud of it. The audio files are here https://www.liontaris.furtopia.org/Pages/Pieces/PnoSonata1.html in MP3 format (recorded via MIDI, not live). If anyone wants the score, I can try to provide one.

Taris

[pianohopper]

I have always wondered exactly what modern composers are trying to capture when they write music.  To me, unexperienced in modern music, I can't find any logic in it.  If a song always tells a story, what story are you trying to tell?  And, I don't mean to be finnicky, but aren't sonatas generally a bit longer than 2:12?  obviously with MIDI it's not so easy to hear things such as dynamics and other expressions, so some stuff may have been lost.

[prometheus]

A sonata is absolute music. There is no song element, program or story. It is totally abstract.

I didn't have time to listen yet.

[tariswerewolf]

  And, I don't mean to be finnicky, but aren't sonatas generally a bit longer than 2:12? 

Serial music is, from my experience, generally shorter than more classical works. And, in my opinion, you don't need great, sprawling works to express yourself.  Many of Alban Berg's works are very short. *thinks for a sec...* I could swear my sonata was longer than 2:12... That's a typo on the page. Something I forgot to change when I edited the template. THe whole sonata is around 7 minutes.

[arensky]

aren't sonatas generally a bit longer than 2:12? 

                                               Scarlatti ?

[llamaman]

Shouldn't this be in the audition room 

Very good btw.

[luc]

Am I too stupid to like this kind of music? Seriously.
I can't help, but for me it's just a bunch of notes 
I don't understand this at all (this is not an insult!)

[tariswerewolf]

Am I too stupid to like this kind of music? Seriously.
I can't help, but for me it's just a bunch of notes 
I don't understand this at all (this is not an insult!)

I'll be honest with you. No you're not. Serialism, just like any avant-garde or 20th century music (like Varese) takes a certain kind of ear. Some people like it, some don't. For example, I used to to an internet radio broadcast, and one week, I played Varese's "Integrales". I love that piece (mind you, I hafta be in the right mood for it), but at least one listener told me he wasn't fond of it.

Stuff like that is definitely an ear-opener. I never thought I'd like Varèse until one of my professors played it for me in a lecture. Now, Stockhausen... THERE'S a composer I can't handle!

[tariswerewolf]

Shouldn't this be in the audition room 

Very good btw.

Thank you very much. I'm not sure. Why would it be there instead of here?

And the recording is only MIDI, not live.