Volcanic Ash (Hass) - Sinta Saxophone Quartet | 2018 Fischoff Grand Prize Concert

The Sinta Quartet's electrifying performance of Volcanic Ash at the Grand Prize Concert of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition!
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Program Notes:
Volcanic Ash is a boisterous and lively piece for saxophone quartet, fusing the harmonic language of Middle Eastern music with the form, rhythms, and overall intensity found in heavy metal. The piece features constant meter changes, low open fifth 'power chords', and sweeping arpeggios, but is complemented by a calm and reflective chorale. Volcanic Ash was written for Sinta Quartet's Composition Competition in 2017, taking Dan Graser's advice of writing a quartet that is "harder, faster, and louder" than my first saxophone quartet, Polar Vortex, in an attempt to challenge the incredibly talented ensemble.
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[@cehass11]

Thank you all for listening to this ridiculous recording of my composition 'Volcanic Ash' by the Sinta Quartet! More information and payment links can be found on my website: www.hassmusic.com/chamber/volcanicash

[@gsarangi32768]

Does this include a score and all parts? Or is this just a score or just the parts?

[@cehass11]

Gaurav Sarangi All of the above!

[@johnriley2600]

This is such a great piece but why is is double the price of some quartets?

[@keananok]

One of the best examples of modern classical saxophone composing

[@jobless2852]

Dude, you are everywhere in the classical sax comments😂 are you still in hs and are you in texas?

[@keananok]

@@jobless2852 haha im a junior in hs and not in texas

[@jobless2852]

@@keananok dangg I was wondering if i would ever see you at region!

[@theweirdweeb567]

​@@keananok i like how you had to clarify 🤣 we Texans built different

[@cranecrane5207]

@@theweirdweeb567 specifically kids from the outer parts they are cracked for no reason

[@at1as052]

my quartet is learning this for solo ensemble and lemme tell u those arpeggios with the tenor and bari are NOT A JOKE

[@cehass11]

Not at all!! Best of luck on the performance!

[@skywhiddon6160]

So... how’d it go?

[@jessicawatson891]

how did it go... 3 years later..?

[@VinnyG6053]

Try the chromatics for the soprano

[@robertb.ridgewayii473]

I’m so excited to this piece this year 🥰

[@RadiantOrchid]

There has never been a song more deserving of the phrase "goes hard"

[@meamcomorod]

No way they just played this five minute piece from memory

[@yellowcactustvz4929]

That's hardly the most impressive part

[@tjeffersonb]

Ah, man, this is one of the pieces that first roped me into the world of classical saxophone

[@cehass11]

Glad I could be such a positive influence! 😂

[@shritan0]

3:43 the soprano part here is absolutely insane

[@jessicawatson891]

ikr bruhhh that'd be so hard

[@carsonwayne1320]

its actually the soprano and the alto going back in forth which is WAY WAY Harder

[@gdbyzantryx810]

@@carsonwayne1320 The back in forth actually make it easier. I think in this piece it's for range purposes, but composers typically split figures like that up between parts, especially in the band setting.

[@holdeenyo8914]

in ways it's easier, in other ways it's harder. For less experienced people getting that level of coordination and timing down is much much harder theoretically than just hitting the rights notes. @@gdbyzantryx810

[@themoistcactus]

The players are so connected it’s great😍

[@joshpark.sax875]

Awesome piece of music. At the top of my favorite for sax quartet pieces rn!

[@cehass11]

Thank you so much! That means a lot!!

[@carbonc6065]

Fantastic!

[@brzytownik]

Świetne zgranie. Szacunek artystyczny!

[@dari_dee_maestro]

This is amazing!

[@cehass11]

Thank you!!

[@jontykingham3081]

Wow! Genuinely astounded by both the caliber of the musicians performing this, and the piece itself Well done👏🏽👏🏽

[@cehass11]

Thank you so much! Yeah, this group is incredible. They make the piece sound easy!

[@FrankNawrot]

Love it, man!

[@cehass11]

Thanks Frank!

[@dakareeclinton1922]

Love Joe Girard (tenor sax) he’s helped me in college and high school. Best player I know🤞

[@bethwisbey9962]

Hoping to program this for my senior recital in October!

[@cehass11]

That'd be fantastic! Let me know how it goes!

[@scumbag..]

You guys came to gms today you sounded amazing!

[@noahadkins2779]

Honestly sounds like a Super Mario Galaxy piece.

[@noahsamuels1499]

My exact thought

[@noahsamuels1499]

Something on a boss level

[@JonF0721]

I almost imagine it like a castle level in Mario bros

[@jessolagunle]

Goals!

[@disgustangy4901]

I love these kinds of more modern sax quartets, and want to write one myself. Any tips for a beginner composer?

[@LukeShalz]

Arpeggiate jazz chords

[@nic0cav]

I love that tenor part, wish it wasnt covered up so much lmao

[@chody07]

sorry for a 3 year late respons...but thats sadly all tenor parts. appreciated once, never again. tenors pretty much a filler

[@holdeenyo8914]

@@chody07 except jazz band :)

[@judecrooker6618]

@@chody07my band director plays tenor so at least he thinks i’m important

[@editsiguess9304]

I edge to this

[@daryjohnmizelle]

nice performance...

[@davidmourao7923]

Lots of long notes for that baritone. damn.... huge sound!

[@pearspeedruns]

Do you ever write for film? I feel like if you extended this piece out it would make a sick film score

[@cehass11]

Thanks man! I actually recently wrote music for a documentary about Japanese kamikaze pilots. It's still being edited, but should be released this fall!

[@pearspeedruns]

Chris Evan Hass Awesome! Make sure to post about it when it's out!

[@declan9876]

nice

[@ducky_9313]

THE SOPRANOOOOOOOOOO SOLOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@yep862]

Why does the Bari look like superman

[@kerriewithpurpose5722]

The quality sound at 5:27 surely is because of the caliber of the instrument because these guys nailed this...need a 12000 sax for the guy playing that high note please and thanks 😊😊😊😊

[@someirrelevantsaxdude440]

Hi. My saxophone quartet will be performing this for Highschool Solo & Ensemble. Would it be ok for me to upload a recording of us playing it once we perform?

[@cehass11]

Absolutely! I would love to hear it.

[@someirrelevantsaxdude440]

Chris Hass Hi again. Sorry it took so long, but we finally performed Volcanic Ash if you’d like to hear what we have so far. We’re definitely not done working on it, as it’s not perfect, but it’s a start

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

Some Irrelevant Sax Dude well don’t be shy, post the vid! i’m working on this tune and i love hearing multiple renditions of it

[@someirrelevantsaxdude440]

Reynaldo Palacios I did upload it, but later decided to remove it simply because it wasn’t a great performance. If you’d still like to hear it, it was posted by our alto player as well kzbin.info/www/bejne/rquWhYmgec93j7c

[@convan4545]

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[@chody07]

this inspired me to write a sax quartet of my own, using a similar progression but i didnt copy anything off this song

[@reedsong1403]

I wish my saxophone ensemble was good enough to play this 😔

[@cehass11]

Check out my newer tune ‘Final Boss’! All the intensity of this one, but a little more playable.

[@reedsong1403]

@@cehass11 I’ll check it out

[@theweirdweeb567]

Can y'all please do Cuba sax quartet!!!

[@carterhetz8404]

Are the Alto and Soprano sax parts at 3:06 written in the music, or are they improv?

[@cashdeane]

They are playing the written part but there is an option to improv

[@diegot8257]

Improv

[@JonF0721]

Some people combine the 2, meaning they do some of the written portion and improvise

[@gamingnuggets5465]

yuh

[@christianmccullough1745]

What’s the beautiful chord at 2:58

[@cehass11]

Nothing special, just a VI chord in F minor (Db major). It only stands out because we haven't had a major chord with the full quartet yet.

[@matthewvanwageningen8944]

this shit rips

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

is there a reason the group chose to omit one of the 32nd note runs in the beginning?

[@kerriewithpurpose5722]

OMG this just makes music sound complicated

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

@@kerriewithpurpose5722 lol how

[@leosherman9842]

3:20

[@meib1615]

🐟

[@prostep9257]

What level is this

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

What kind of mouthpiece does the bari player play on?

[@danielhawthorne-foss6896]

Hi Reynaldo, I'm the bari player in the video. I play a selmer C*

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

Daniel Hawthorne-Foss oh that's cool, thanks for the reply! I play on a vandoren v16 b7 but I've heard great things about the c*. Quick question, what's up with many sax players having a different colored neck compared to the rest of their saxophone?

[@DawsonColemanSax]

Some people tend to feel a difference with different materials -- I believe Tim McAllister has a video of himself on youtube going to some Selmer factory and trying out a bunch of different necks to see which one sounds the best and gives the most overtones.

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

Dawson Coleman yea i believe cannonball supplies two necks for their saxes. I’ll look for the video thank you!

[@reynaldopalacios9473]

Daniel Hawthorne-Foss what was one of the harder parts when you were putting this song together? i’m in high school and i recently got this song and would like to play it for a competition in april

[@rp1894]

What a great job you did with the most obnoxious instrumentation possible. Did you lose a bet? Cool song bro. 2:30 I had to check it was still the same song. I see what it is now. You hate musicians. And @ 4:55 the audience too.

[@Chrisssysax]

Chris, I love the piece and I live playing it but I gotta ask….why so many weird time signatures??

[@harveyknguyen]

dw about it

[@wettrousers]

Literally bruh, i tried playing this with my quartet and the time signature changes almost every measure