How much longer do you think New Complexity will last?

[bwv 1080]

Just listened to Ian Pace playing Hoban Wieland's when the panting STARTS which assigns a separate stave to each finger of the pianist and according to Ian is a more difficult piece than Richard Barrett's Tracts, which is now  relegated to something to close sophmore piano recitals with.


http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/XwJIrSoBq6M&feature=related

The piece has everything one could desire in new complexity one-upmanship - the requisite idiosyncratic capitalization of the title, impossible looking score (did he really need ten staves to write this?), and lots of dribbling / crashing piano textures



Perhaps there is a Moore's law to new complexity piano pieces with the difficulty doubling every decade or so.  We had Lemma-Icon-Epigram in the 80s, Tract in the 90s and now when the panting STARTS.  What do we have to look forward to in the next decade? 

[Josquin des Prez]

What next decade?

[snyprrr]

The New Complexity ends in 2012 along with everything else!

Isn't there a moment in the life of every New-Plex composers life when all of a sudden his next piece has a few less notes than his last piece?

Is there actually a masterpiece or two in the New-Plex repertoire that I'm missing, or is it an "I Am God" ego trip to the stars? ("I have the power to make you do THIS!" ) Is Xenakis more, or less complex? Just like searching for the "god particle", is there no end? Hey, composers, if we slow down your records to half speed it sounds greeeat! Avant Garde Chipmunks.

Perhaps the students will not long follow their teachers, but then, oh yea, 2012.

[Valentino]

On a first hear, I like it, stupid title and weird sheet nonwithstanding.

[bwv 1080]

Christopher Fox has written some really attractive music

http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/9o3dNSsMzaI