Unique for piano and trumpet

[nikolasideris]

I think that I should already have posted something here. But apparently I haven't.

So.

www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/unique.mp3

and

www.nikolas-sideris.com/stuff/unique.pdf

A few things about the work.

1. This work was composed by me.
2. It is not for solo piano, for the only reason that I don't have anything else with me playing. So I did want to be judged for my playing along with my composition skills. I hope this is not a problem.
3. The piece was recorded with samples in the piano, but there was almost no editing on the piano part (but the trumpet was later added), so this is pretty accurate about my piano playing I think.
4. The mp3 is a low quality mono mp3 file and the pdf has an ugly watermark. I still hope that it's not too awful.

5. The original recording and the original single print of the score with the manuscript belong to a friend of mine (thus the title "Unique").
6. There are electornic elemens in there, but not too many I think.

I'm open to any comments and feedback. I'm not here only to give (harsh?) feedback but to receive also

Thank you for listening.

Nikolas

[birba]

Bravo!!   There was some really brilliant writing and playing here.   You're certainly a composer who can play his own music (as opposed to others we have been discussing here recently...)
I didn't like those bits of electronic stuff.  How did they get in there?!  And I actually think it could be a brilliant pianoforte solo.  Why don't you try to make it one?
But, all in all, I was really taken with it.

[nikolasideris]

Heh...

First of all thank you for listening and commenting.

The explanation to all your questions.

This piece was (amazingly, if I may add) a part of my PhD thesis. The general argument of my thesis was a grudge I have against recordings vs live performances. So in all I created a piece which is slightly unplayable in a live setting (the trumpet is slightly unplayable, the piano is fully playable but darn difficult and the electronics are almost impossible to be performed live, since they are linked to later parts of the piece taken back (so even live electronics wouldn't cut it)).

However, despite the above, as a recording (and thus as a different medium than concert hall music) it can be played back, etc. And since it is a recording there can be electronics, and further to that the art form CAN be tangible, as opposed to a live performance.

Thus the recording you are getting is the equivelant of a photograph of a painting. Same goes for the score I linked. A unique music artifact I think.

As for your idea to make it into a solo piano piece, this is how it started (basically an impro). he piano part is still somewhere on my computer, so I may actually post it once I get to my studio.

Thanks for posting, once more.

(Incidently, this is one of the few pieces I think I did justice while performing it. Otherwise other pieces lack the personality a performer would give...)