Cambrian Explosion - Ignacio Rosado (2024)

[@iggyrosado]

Hey everyone -- thank you so much for your support on this piece! To answer a FAQ, the audio is a mockup I made by combining virtual sample instruments with recordings of me playing all of the string parts as well as the occasional flute/clarinet line. If you're interested in hearing how this sounds live, I recently had the last few minutes of the piece read by the incredible New York Youth Symphony which you can check out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqPIeH5_dtSnl6M. Enjoy 😊

[@thomasjanssen7387]

It’s the Cambrian Explosion

[@connorbrown8743]

I heard this in his voice

[@jenniferkorf4767]

Fr

[@fiddeou]

THIS is what contemporary music should be sounding like!

[@christianv-h3278]

Paleontologist here. Absolutely love this piece, it captures so nicely the wondrous, bizarre novelty of the Cambrian!!

[@landonzientara]

I LOVE both geological history and the way you that captured a creeping primordial zeal with this piece.

[@timguillaume867]

isn't he so good at capturing the little joys of his subject matter in his music

[@iggyrosado]

Thank you! 🙏

[@lilyzuki4517]

this piece slipped into my recommendation when i was in a creative slump, and i'm not exaggerating to say this got me all inspired and ready to create something again! this is such a brilliant piece and i can't wait to hear more of your works!

[@kwabzycomposer]

I cannot believe you are already this exceptionally thought out, constructed, and showing such a creative tour de force at such a young age. I’m a 21 year old student composer, and seeing stuff like this in my recommend is really inspiring

[@iggyrosado]

Thank you!! 🙏

[@JosiahAustin]

This piece is so enjoyable! I strongly appreciate how you combined chance music with concrete notation. Not to mention some microtonal passages. This is one of the most refreshing pieces of modern classical music I’ve heard in several years. You are an incredibly talented composer… and performer (I watched a few other videos). Bravo Ignacio!

[@goo9262]

My thoughts exactly! Bravo!

[@iggyrosado]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@hisky.]

there's no way you're 17, this is so much more inventive and ingenious than even some professional composers of the modern era

[@cronosvandust313]

Absolutely marvelous! This is the direction modern classical music should go towards. Brilliant usage of a wide range of articulation techniques, no fear of microtonality, but also using it with great taste - gorgeous. Thank you so much for this experience.

[@dac5224]

How is this not viral this piece is absolutely incredible

[@LucidityRemains]

Too boring for most

[@Yello96486]

@@LucidityRemains ur joking

[@michaelberringer8595]

17? Guy's a genius

[@JackBHolt]

This is a perfect example of the culmination of theory across the past few centuries! How each has its place, yet doesn't take precedence over the other. Bravo! I aspire to write like this one day!

[@tsodor-theodorstriese8]

finally, enjoyable contemporary music once again! I am very happy that I stumbled across this. thank you for this composition

[@tommyron]

I listened to this work with great pleasure. There are textures and atmospheres at work here that I feel very close to. Bravo!

[@EandCheckmark]

I am in no way exaggerating when I say that this piece sounds like it’s the winner of an international composition competition.

[@UncannyComics]

Unbelievable. Such complex and engaging textures with an incredible amount of plasticity between them. Truly a thrilling and engaging ride!! Bravo!

[@icarette808]

What a wonderful composition! So lifelike and animated in its presentation and so incredibly creative! It is truly a wonder that music so thoughtfully composed can incite such vidid visuals in the listener, and as a student musician and visual artist this piece hits all the right places so well! It starts as abruptly as it ends, but in the time it runs this piece depicts the true ingenuity and fervor of life in its ability to innovate and survive in the stangest of places and ways much like the Cambrian itself. Strings like a morning chorus, col legno like newly evolved and scurrying legs, slapsticks like snapping jaws, eerie deepsea environs to vibrant shallow waters, feeding frenzies to slow meanders. It's a lively cacophony of the eagerness to thrive, to become something, to start like nothing has before. It's colorful, it's beautiful, it's *_ALIVE!_* Bravo!

[@iggyrosado]

Thank you for this beautiful reading of the piece!! 🙏

[@debleb166]

This is really fun and playful. I expect that if I traveled back in time to the Cambrian period I would hear this playing.

[@mellofifee]

Wonderful!

[@josephredingmusic]

Whoaaaaaa did the orchestra struggle with getting the quarter tones in tune? Insanely great piece!

[@sedonaernest3851]

This is so good!!!!

[@user-on6db4rf4s]

I would KILL to listen to this live. It’s magnificent and marvelous and so good even on my shitty phone speakers, I cannot fathom how it will sound like live, in a concert hall. Keep up your amazing work

[@pikachupikachu56god46]

Idk how this piece managed to summarize the wonder of the Cambrian explosion so well.

[@Dodecatone]

This is great! Echoes of Popol Vuh in the opening, flights of quarter tones that actually add something to the piece. Hopefully you get this performed, and I can't wait to see what you do next.

[@user-on6db4rf4s]

Oh my god this is marvelous!!!!!

[@kurtch794]

omg the animal noises in this are so perfect. a new favorite of mine! reminds me a lot of the planets by gustav holst

[@betweenlakes]

Great title. Amazing piece. Really stunning and inspiring. EDIT: You're only 17 and composed this?! Incredible.

[@ilyapetoushkoff8362]

Absolutely epic!

[@persik7gd]

This is surprisingly brilliant!

[@r.mcnally7811]

I'm at a loss for words. Stunning.

[@jacobzarosa]

Came across this in my recommended. As an amature composer, this is eye opening as to the possibilities of classical instrumentation. Inspirational!

[@Cyllaris]

Amazing! So fresh and captive!

[@donnaperre5382]

Amazing work!!

[@SuperKripke]

Awesome Ignacio!

[@lyrilimon1042]

KZbin recomended this video to me and I'm glad it did! What a unique work👏

[@fireoflife5219]

this is beautiful!

[@krystalghostz]

this is absolutely wonderful, you've managed to capture the essence of that "explosion" of life and just how awe inspiring it is... i love this piece so much. the microtonal sections just add a whole new layer to it, it's almost like you're creating a whole new like, well life? LOL

[@MrMayAllDay]

Splendid!

[@MicoAquinoComposer]

So good!!

[@bluemewsic]

incredible!!

[@klmkevin4223]

Wow that sounds really great and avant-garde ! Love it !

[@macgyverrawson1428]

Absolutely incredible!

[@LeonardoOuteiro]

Great!!

[@l34hlevi]

this is incredible, I love the way you compose

[@sm4games]

This is one of the most fun pieces I've ever heard, amazing work

[@OdinComposer]

Wait is this played live? How did you do the production? :0

[@estherK765]

BRAVO

[@pagorami5253]

this is actually so good i love this

[@RaymondDoerr]

excellent use of extended techniques and sound effects and timbre. I hate to admit it but your grasp of music composition and your creativity is better than mine

[@lpamnz]

SO COOL!!!!! I'd happily volunteer my violin skills to get you a recording closer to what quality this piece deserves

[@timguillaume867]

thanks for this so much! the way you churn out so many bangers is so wondrous to me

[@Ivan_1791]

This is really impressive for a teenager.

[@shadmium3471]

this piece is addicting!

[@isaaclutterodt3709]

amazing!

[@joejolliffe]

Who is performing it?

[@rabbit-munch-carrots]

This is fabulously enjoyable!

[@tigerkeiart7761]

I keep thinking about Anomalocaris hunting, trilobites, hallucigenia just existing along to this. amazing

[@georgigospodinov2550]

Genius, what program do u use?

[@bourgeoisie6076]

in a way reminds me of john adams and philip glass

[@DanielKirillov-iv3ww]

Instant subscribe. Do you have piano works?

[@改开沈]

Amazing

[@junehyoungKim-g4l]

This is really fun

[@enxn6667]

Awesome piece! Congratulations

[@erwinschulhoff4464]

who produced the midi for this? this is literally perfect

[@iggyrosado]

Thanks!! I made this mockup with a combination of sample instruments and recordings of myself playing all of the string parts and a few of the wind parts 😊

[@ChainsawCoffee]

@@iggyrosado You have done a wonderful production! 👏

[@Kije.Jekyll]

@@iggyrosado Oh god...!

[@nou6990]

bro you're 17???? wtf am i doing with my life

[@composerjalen]

Anomalocaris my beloved

[@Talmurid]

Interesting concept! Piece was thoroughly competent, my only criticism is of those muted trumpet wah wahs in the beginning, I would take them out.

[@juwonnnnn]

👏

[@Summertraveling]

is this the piece you're doing for the reading?? KZbin recommended this to me and it is SUCH a cool piece!!

[@iggyrosado]

Yes!! Haha thanks 😄I'm planning to use the last minute or so

[@Summertraveling]

@@iggyrosado I'm still relistening to it now, lollll I'd love to know how you produced the audio for the percussion? I'm having trouble finding good sample libraries and the sounds used here are so crispyy

[@iggyrosado]

​@@Summertraveling Sure! I used the East West sample library for some of the percussion (timpani, BD, slapstick etc.) but for some of the more nonstandard sounds I just pulled them off the web (Splice or Freesound.org are good resources for that)

[@vuvvyss]

GO IGGY !

[@josephguenther4775]

Wait wait wait you mean there's still people writing good music?!

[@佐藤伸輝-p3l]

It sounds a little like Kevin Puts

[@charlenedupont-z6a]

Great stuff. I dislike contemporary classical because much of it might as well be procedurally generated. Here’s a piece with actual thought and harmony and beauty! You oughta be in symphony halls; you’ll go places.

[@luisnemecioaguirreflores2284]

SEVENTEEN???

[@EnricaOrlandi-d3x]

Primus in orbe Deos fecit timor...😮

[@invasorispaziali3737]

Seriously?

[@billclintonscomputer1408]

beautiful textures! Not a huge fan of the microtonal section, though, it seems unnecessary.

[@maxkaiser7435]

I cant wait until classical music stops this trend towards flashy effects, and goes back to creating real meaning in pieces

[@donnaperre5382]

I cant wait until closed-minded people like you wake up and realize that we live in the 21st century. If you can’t find 'real meaning' in this evocative work, it says more about your willingness to embrace new ideas than about the music itself.

[@lionsmaine1238]

This is fascist rhetoric just btw.

[@michaelmatthews1567]

How are the two mutually exclusive? You’re entirely welcome to your opinion, but the vast majority of people I encounter who meet such works with vitriol and asses with such broad strokes can’t actually justify “meaning” or “value” with any objective or meaningful metric. Why hide your dislike for the piece behind the facade of an entirely nebulous concept? Just say you’re not a fan instead of taking the coward’s way out.

[@pixiirespighi]

Almost good.