Genuine question: What about it doesn’t work for you?

Listened again. Nope. Doesn't have clarity of piano. mot nearly the same.

@@qwiklok ofc it’s not the same lmao

A lot of Robert Fripp's work through the 1980s was essentially Steve Reich on guitar :)

@@kumoyuki I agree! In King Crimson albums such as Discipline and Beat.

I've never met a composer who hated music, but I've known plenty of people, like yourself, who hate certain types of it.

Delete your anti-Semitic comment. No tolerance for that, it’s disgusting.

Performed... Once a year at best, lol

If you're thinking of the Baba O'Riley intro, that was inspired by another great minimalist composer, Terry Riley (hence the title).

Exact performance of the score is not a goal of the piece. The way it varies from performance to performance, and performer to performer, is a political aspect of the piece. A "canonical" performance on MIDI (or anywhere) is contrary to its spirit.

@@talastra nah. It should be midi because the piece does not express an emotional story or feelings. It’s just an experimental piece and should be played as so

It doesn't express an emotional story or feelings that you recognize. You call something that's not an emotional story or feelings not a piece--sure. That's one way to imagine music. You say it's "just" an experimental piece and should be played as such; that's exactly what it's doing and is happening in this recording (or any other of it). A MIDI would, at best, be one more example. It's absolutely clear that you cannot hear the difference between this piece and a lot of post-WWII experimental music. I suggest you listen more negligently. You might start to hear it then. The piece is neither random nor precious.@@Medtszkowski

@@talastra Okay, I guess I should

The compositional approach "permitted the writing of a music which was not based on harmony, but it permitted harmonies to enter into such a nonharmonic music. How could you express that in political terms? It would permit that attitude expressed socially. It would permit institutions or organizations, groups of people, to join together in a world which was not nationally divided"

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He did used tape loops though.

Honestly, dude. Peak ignorance. One can always question the methods of a composer, but there are few people in the history of "western" musical composition to so articulately and capaciously ask questions of Music and then identify adequate forms for expressing and answering those questions (all the more so in an era when everything was being tested in Music). No one. I'm not sure a single Romantic composer ever comes close to this mark. Yes, Bach rarely invented a new form, but he filled it in with a precision and detail of composition that is still astonishing; the Classical era folks give us empty forms. All Schoenberg could do was polemically shit on Music (in frustration), and while people like Glass and Reich bought into it (in modified form) (and later epigones even more grotesquely), the Russians at least were wise to that shit, and realized serialism could be applied as a resource in music, but not comprises a basis for it. Some of Shostakovich's symphonies are a case in point, along with Gubaidulina, Ustvolkaya, Schnittke, and perhaps no one more in detail than Shchedrin. Just put the music on and go about your day. That's how one listens to this, not sitting at your computer (or in a concert hall) piously paying attention, hoping that the stuff your ego demands as music should hit your ears. It's completely daft to complain that a banana is not a taco. And then, as you become attuned to listening to your listening, you may begin to notice the "music of the spheres" in the air around you, even when the Etudes Australes aren't playing.

So, what are your talents?

@@philipconnelly1505 KZbin didn't allow to publish my answer.

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Actually, besides that he is a composer in the truest sense of the word, it is the people who imitate the appearance of his works, and not the intention, that are the trolls and mockers.

@@talastra you are coping so hard, going from posts to posts to defend the fuck out of this shit. Hilarious actually

@@KinkyLettuce Says the person following me.

"...allowed to get away"? What do you want, people policing composers to only write a certain type of music? Your name isn't Stalin by any chance, is it?