Kaija Saariaho - Spins and Spells

[@josephchiu2403]

I find myself constantly coming back to this piece. Beautiful.

[@3340steve]

Nice work here from the composer and performer. It gave me a few ideas for my own play. Thank you.

[@noelkennon9969]

Did you find the score its got a cool tuning the C is a bflat and the d a c#?

[@machida5114]

quite good ...

[@squarewavesound1053]

Sounds amazing

[@m34nb34n]

Awesome =)

[@anna0952]

Bravo!!

[@kliklakberlin]

Bravo.

[@BenAndrea-fl8gb]

Zf

[@shnimmuc]

These composers who write these sonic passing's are missing the point of music. It is too bad they might have talent. I have, with a fellow pianist improvised sounds like this and at concerts. After laying out elaborate stories as to what the composition was about and giving fictional information about the fictional composer of our improv. the audience was ours. They were afraid of calling the "music" what it was random nonsense. Even critics cower at what makes no sense, for fear of looking stupid. Very sad.

[@MJPTHA3RD]

If your interpretation of talent is secondary dominants and V-I s all day, let me be talentless.

[@shnimmuc]

If you stick to that, you have no imagination.

[@Logan-qi4nx]

shnimmuc I struggle to see your reasoning behind this. The entire Jazz genre was torn apart by musicians of previous generations, who were horrified by the odd timing and dissonant chords. But people around the would came to enjoy jazz, and now it's a staple of the formal musical education of the Americas. This sort of music is simply the next step in experimentation. Don't be afraid of it! Criticize it, help the composers produce more coherent pieces, or just avoid listening to this sort of music altogether. But I would avoid simply calling the music nonsense. Every note served a purpose.

[@MsWolverineXX]

Lighten up, some of us enjoy this stuff.

[@forrcaho]

Are we to believe, after you've told us that you lied to the audience to lend fictional legitimacy to your apparently uninspired improvisations, that you are telling us the truth here? It hardly matters, but it is a conundrum.