A modernist collection of pieces utilising the traditional string section, with neoclassical experimentation and avant-garde flourishes. Expressive string techniques and supporting instruments such as piano and mallets create intricate, interlocking rhythms and harmonies throughout.
Auteurs-compositeurs
Minds And Music
New World Order
It's a brave new world, and we face an uncertain future. The powers that be seem to be cloaked in shadow. Can we ever know who's really in charge? Strident strings, emphatic piano and orchestral percussion set a meaningful tone.
2:04 · 110 BPM
Abstract Images
In today's world of complex ideas, concepts and theories, communication is one of our greatest challenges. Somehow we have to make sure we all stay on the same page. Gracefully flowing string quartet and piano.
2:46 · 118 BPM
Pitch & Dynamics
When you break it down, music is the pure physics of vibrating atoms. By changing different variables, musicians create different tones, textures, and even emotions. Interlocking string quartet featuring rhythmic col legno bowing technique.
2:21 · 128 BPM
Experimental Drift
Sometimes you have to break free from your conventions and try something new, bold and even risky. That's how progress is made. Rhythmic, angular strings with flowing flautando solo violin, supported by gentle piano and glockenspiel.
2:29 · 90 BPM
Modernism
Modernism is all about learning the rules so that they can be broken and restructured into something fresh, exciting, even unsettling. It's a new way of thinking. Somber string quartet with juxtaposed spiccato phrases and flowing legato lines.
2:20 · 98 BPM
Answers & Questions
The scientific method is full of surprises. Finding the solution can sometimes be more challenging than figuring out the best way to phrase the problem. Experimental string quartet featuring rhythmic, clock-like spiccato and col legno techniques.
1:58 · 116 BPM
Methodical Patterns
In science, you have to look past the raw data to find the meaningful repetitions and correlations behind the noise. It's almost a form of art, or even magic. Flowing string quartet with evocative harmonic movement, supported by a steady piano.
2:09 · 98 BPM
Free Choice
Not everything is set in stone. Even we mere mortals have the power to change our destinies and even our world, if we so choose. Uplifting, gently building strings, supported by piano, glockenspiel and light percussion.
2:35 · 106 BPM
Music & Mathematics
From the precise ratios involved in harmonic intervals to the interlocking subdivisions of the rhythmic grid, music and mathematics go hand in hand. Gentle, rhythmic col legno strings and piano in a rhythmic dance.
2:06 · 106 BPM
Interplay
There's no such thing as isolation. Everything in the universe is inextricably linked to everything else in a cosmic network of cause and effect. Gently rhythmic strings and atmospheric vibraphone, supported by piano and glockenspiel.
2:40 · 110 BPM
Revolutions
Cycles are everywhere you look, from the circular motion of the breath to the cosmic dance of the stars and planets. Nature may not build in straight lines, but she loves a circle. Grand, emphatic strings supported by piano and timpani.
2:18 · 120 BPM
Structures
Nature is generative, building on itself to create ever more complex forms and systems. The efficiency of this natural engineering is surpassed only by its beauty. Gently building spiccato strings with piano and solo violin.
2:03 · 104 BPM
Into The Avant-Garde
Some ideas are ahead of their time. Wild experimentation and an almost frantic creativity have often been the catalysts for great changes in art, science and history. Urgent strings, emphatic piano and orchestral percussion.
1:58 · 190 BPM
Telemetry
Feedback is everything. If you know how to read the data in real time, you can almost see your experiments come alive with a vibrancy all their own. Angular spiccato strings with solo violin, supported by subtle cymbals, piano, marimba and percussion.
2:40 · 130 BPM