Concert Etude

[@robpascual1684]

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[@MatthewLeeKnowles]

[@gemcomposer]

Awesome 👌

[@MatthewLeeKnowles]

:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[@jackhughesbooks]

Dear God man, this is mind blowing. Beyond exciting. The technical requirements for playing it alone. The fragmented melodies, the clashing ideas, it's raw, savage yet so controlled. Hearing it is literally a phsyical assault. I have always been a massive fan of Keith Tippets piano work with early Crimson. I am not comparing you but this gave me the same visceral shivers. Awesome!

[@MatthewLeeKnowles]

I love the comparison to Keith Tippet and I know what you mean - that guy knows how to PLAY! I'm sure he had a few extra fingers he kept well hidden until he needed them ;-)

[@jackhughesbooks]

@@MatthewLeeKnowles Here is something else & the comment gets a bit off piste so stay with me. in 72 Peter Gabriel was promoting Foxtrot in Sounds or NME. He mentioned a piece by Stockhausen called the Vertical Tower, saying how he had layered the sound vertically and it was iconoclastic. It conjured something entirely new in my mind. I looked for this for years and don't think it exists. Hearing your work, I can't help thinking if I had heard this back then, it would have exactly fitted my conception of this revolutionary vertiginous music. (Even though what I've heard of Stockhausen in the years since I don't like much - but that's not the point.)

[@MatthewLeeKnowles]

@@jackhughesbooks I've never heard of The vertical Tower and I can't find any title of Stockhausen's that matches that, I even tried looking up NME articles from 1972 by PG but couldn't find anything - now I'm really curious what it could be! Everything I thought it could be (Licht, Oktophonie etc happened after 72) Thanks again for your wonderful words! :-))))))))))))))))))

[@jackhughesbooks]

@@MatthewLeeKnowles I never found it and I have been checking out record shops since then. Of course over the years it could be that I have Misremembered, it's easily done, then you think it actually happened. I don't want to go over the top with praise like some crazed stalker but you are really an accomplished copmoser.