In a dark cave

[furtwaengler]

November 16, 2009

This sounds like a caricature of everything I do these days...

Minor second, minor ninth, minor seventh...

Always with the octatonic (old faithful)...

Blocks of sound distributed in different registers...

The low lows, the high highs (still with the registers)...

Impulses of rhythm rather than melody...

Giant sonorities of dissonances long resonating...

Grading dynamics for a transparent view of distances...

Melodic and harmonic imprints final arising out of the chaos...

Subtle quoting of the dies irae, old personal fragments, comfort of comfort, the Brahms Wiegenlied...
 

What do those kids think when they walk by the class room?

I'm going to sleep now in the deep dark cave.

[pianowolfi]

I really *love* caves. Something I didn't post yet in that other thread, surely you don't know about me that I dream of giving a concert in a cave some day. I would like to play Beethoven's op. 111 there and of course improvise. I love visiting caves and I did a few explorations into some really rough and wild ones with a guide. Of course the stillness is fascinating. But as well the wild water in some of them. The stalactites and stalagmites, forming their own specific world of art....When I first entered there I felt suddenly at home.

In your music I hear all the aspects, dripping stalactites, rushing wild water, somewhere the anxious call of a bird that got lost in the huge subterranian halls...

A world in itself. A very (re-) creative world. A very inspiring world.

[furtwaengler]

Thanks for your message, Pianowolfi.

I've found your recording of op. 111. It actually sounds a bit like it's in a very live cave. You clearly love the piece, and I love op. 111 so much it hurts. I can barely approach it now. It's a painful thing.