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Why “Abstract Music”? This music is “just” music. Signifying nothing else: no feelings, no thoughts, nothing to dance to. Just sounds and rhythmical structures revolving around each other within a mathematical frame.
These pieces are more than 10 years old. Once I had mapped out and set the mathematical relationships between tones I let my old Atari ST run and run and the musical textures evolved by themselves.
The Atari was linked via MIDI with a Roland device with a preset of sampled sounds.
I still listen to these pieces for relaxation and meditation or if I want to purify my musical imagination to hear something totally different.
Originally these pieces were called “Abstract Flow 1 to 4″. But as they are all individual to me I came up with these names.
Richard Reeve 11:01 am on January 21, 2009 Permalink |
I really like the idea of digging into our creative archives to develop posts for our current audiences. The emotional textures in each of these pieces is distinct and enjoyable. Folks walking by my hall are sticking their heads in for a listen too…
Detlef 12:44 pm on January 21, 2009 Permalink |
I love when people are interested in these pieces. It always has been difficult to find an audience for them.
Isn’t it interesting that they have an “emotional texture”, albeit all I did was to choose the sampled instruments, the pool of tones and the loops that created a maximum of variation? These pieces can go on for hours, some for days in continuous variation without going full circle and beginning from the start.
Is it that when we are concentrating on something we cannot but feel something? Is there always emotion? Or is it only in music that there is always emotion? Thinking about it: a painting of Piet Mondrian is quite emotionless to me.