Another Recovered Composition: Sonho-Saudades-Café
Posted Nov 7, 2011, 9:53 PM UTC
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You can hear a big difference between these recordings and your most recent ones (at the very least recording quality ;-). It gives me hope that in 8 years I might go through a similar improvement.
I think you did pretty good w.r.t. the "dissonant but not disgusting" goal of the Sonho (and also on the Cafe de Manana). The "Willow" piece by York strikes me as needing to have some similar goals... trying to capture that feeling of not-quite-belonging.
--Robert
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I added a link to the sheet music if you want to try your hand at any of it. I kind of like the noisy aspect of the recording. Gives it a mood, sort of a sonic patina. I used that effect in a sonata composition assignment for music theory in college to interesting effect.
I haven't played this song in years. I'm going to have to try it out again and see if it's still as difficult as I remember.
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EDIT: Sheet Music
Old piece recorded with a webcam in the AOL epoch. Three short movements (there may have been a fourth but I honestly can't remember).
Sonho (dream): odd time signatures, 2:3 and 5:3 polyrhythms. I tried to make this as dissonant and disconnected as I could without being atonal and incoherent. The chord shapes are pretty tough.
Saudades de Voce (Longing of You): Very sweet love swing with some dissonances. I like the counterpoint in this one.
Café da Manhã (means breakfast, literally morning coffee). I was going for a dark minimalism.