New member: dyn

[dyn]

hi my name is dyn, i'm an emotional junkie.

i'm 21 years old. i decided i was going to be a composer when i was about five. i started out on Beethoven. specifically Beethoven's piano music. i never heard a note written in the twentieth century before i was twelve and someone bought me a miniature score of the Bartók string quartets. tried to teach myself the Appassionata at age eight or so, but the octave stretches were too big for my hands. i loved losing myself in the intensity of it, the rhapsodic arpeggios and crashing dissonances and the deep contemplation of the variations. but it didn't last. i heard the Grosse Fuge. and i heard The Rite of Spring. and i heard the Concerto for Orchestra. and i heard Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima and soon the intensity of beethoven, while not lessened, paled in comparison. the music of today is the supremely vital thing, endlessly fascinating and fascinatingly endless. Chopin will never write another nocturne, but the young composers alive now may someday become Chopins for our time.

i've been spending the past year or so almost completely immersed in music of the past fifty years. with possible exceptions in schumann, chopin and medtner, the first composers of the romantic era i've listened to extensively. to say i've been looking for music that evokes an emotional response would not be accurate. i do not "respond" to music as that implies the music is not part of me. i become immersed in the music; i feel my hands performing it, i sense its sounds flowing through my body. i play it back at volumes to fill the space so that the deep notes rumble under your feet and the loud ones are viscerally terrifying. and it is but only a poor substitute for the transcendent ecstasy of performance, filling the soul and bringing about exquisite consummation at the moment of katharsis...

--what's that? oh, um, sorry... you want to know my favourite composers? sure

uh... some pretty cool people i've been listening lately to include Stockhausen, Lachenmann, Vivier, Sciarrino, Radulescu, Cage, Nono, Ligeti, Aldo Clementi, Mark Andre, Mark Applebaum, Alexander Chernyshkov, John Croft, Joan Arnau Pàmies, John Wall, Gérard Pesson, Dmitry Timofeev, Liza Lim ... & other people. i also need to get to know more of the music of Markus Trunk, Evan Johnson, Wolfgang Mitterer, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Ben Isaacs, Ben.Harper, Lawrence Dunn, Aaron Cassidy & others whom i've liked the little i've heard from

i also like the polonaise-fantasie quite a bit

:/

[dyn]

this wasn't supposed to be its own thread but ok i can live with that

[Karl Henning]

Welcome!

The mods will move this thread to the Introductions section, and all will be gas and gaiters.

[North Star]

Welcome!

Have you heard much Berlioz?

[bhodges]

this wasn't supposed to be its own thread but ok i can live with that

Hi dyn, and welcome. (It was I who moved your nice introduction to the "Introductions" section of the board - hope that's OK.)

Hope you enjoy yourself here. I like many of the composers you listed, especially Lachenmann, Sciarrino and Ligeti.

--Bruce

[Lisztianwagner]

Welcome to the forum, hope you will have a nice time here!

Ilaria

[dyn]

Welcome!

Have you heard much Berlioz?

i've heard parts of the Requiem and La damnation de Faust. i also have a recording of the Roméo et Juliette Symphonie which i've never really spun. probably due to the fact that his pieces require a significant time commitment. bits i've heard haven't made a massive impression on me; i might listen sometime in more depth

Hi dyn, and welcome. (It was I who moved your nice introduction to the "Introductions" section of the board - hope that's OK.)

Hope you enjoy yourself here. I like many of the composers you listed, especially Lachenmann, Sciarrino and Ligeti.

--Bruce

ah ok, thanks i guess

you have good taste :>

[North Star]

i've heard parts of the Requiem and La damnation de Faust. i also have a recording of the Roméo et Juliette Symphonie which i've never really spun. probably due to the fact that his pieces require a significant time commitment. bits i've heard haven't made a massive impression on me; i might listen sometime in more depth

Regarding R&J, go straight for the Scène d'amour, and the other orchestral bits - perhaps the best thing ever wrote.

[petrarch]

uh... some pretty cool people i've been listening lately to include Stockhausen, Lachenmann, Vivier, Sciarrino, Radulescu, Cage, Nono, Ligeti, (...) i also need to get to know more of the music of Markus Trunk, Evan Johnson, Wolfgang Mitterer, (...)

Welcome! And welcome especially to the modern, post-Webern music lovers club!

I like Mitterer's music a lot. There is a thread about him already in this forum. I'd be happy to discuss his music further.

[dyn]

Regarding R&J, go straight for the Scène d'amour, and the other orchestral bits - perhaps the best thing ever wrote.

noted.

Welcome! And welcome especially to the modern, post-Webern music lovers club!

I like Mitterer's music a lot. There is a thread about him already in this forum. I'd be happy to discuss his music further.

i've heard several recommendations for his music, but not a note of it. hence the presence on my "to find out more about" list.

[Hollywood]

Hi dyn! Greetings from Beethoven's Vienna. Welcome to the forum. 

[The new erato]

Welcome, some new blood is always welcome. Sorry if I come on as a vampyre.