QUARKS - Symphony Orchestra (Sosnowski)

[fiziwig]

Will the second movement be called "Leptons?".

Seriously, your piece was full of charm and flavor, both up and down, from top to bottom, with a generous helping of strangeness. It starts out with a nice big bang, and I got a real charge out of it. (Well, 2/3 of a charge, anyway.) The piece had nice chiral symmetry, and the quantum chromodynamics were impeccable. It all holds together very nicely. You added gluons I presume?

[efiebke]

David . . .

Quarks. This brilliant composition of yours, for me, musically gives definition to mankind's understanding of the strange and mysterious quark. The point that I am attempting to get across is that your orchestral composition DOES bring musical definition to such a thing as a quark. (And please forgive me for being redundant with these past two sentences.)

If someone was to ask me, "What is a Quark?" I would, most probably, first give them the text-book definition. I'd read it right out of the some science dictionary. And then, afterward, as they stared at me in a bewildered stance, still not knowing what a quark might be, I would guide them to this composition and ask them to listen to it. Then, and only then, would they probably realize an understanding to its existence.

Like many, many others, I believe music to be a language in and of itself. When written with talent, caring, expressiveness, experience and an understanding of whatever it might be the composer is attempting to musically "define", when that music "speaks", people understand the conversation. David, to me you are a master of the language of music.

Thank you for sharing your talent and your music, David!

Ted

[DPDAN]

David,
I always look forward to listening to your music.
Very well done!
Dan

[Little Red King]

I was captivated all the way through. Great dynamics. Nice bursts of humor.

Thank you for sharing this.

[DelCarry]

David - I love it! You tell a great story through music!

As an aside, you are really getting the hang of the reverb and dynamics - Nice big spacious sound and very dynamic. So... no more apologies from you on the sound front, eh! - Del

[etLux]

Thank you for such an enthusiastic reception of this
little piece, Nikolas!

David I'm posting RIGHT now, to be the first and then I'll edit my post with comments!

OK!

Now that I got first post it's time to listen, speak, hear (but sadly not see yet).

The score has since been posted on the www.DavidSosnowski.com
site, my friend.

First of, I do wish to repeat that the newsletter is a briliant way to keep people in touch with your music!

Actually, if I recall correctly, that was your idea... lol.

I also mention that when it comes to music and people posting here, I have you in extra high rank (not that I rank people, but you know what I mean). I was really happy to see you have a new work!

On the work now!

This is an extra nice work! Very playful and the name, along with your small discription gave me the "right" images. Orchestration sounds great, rendering sounds brilliant as well!

Thank you, Nikolas; although there are some areas of this
the rendering of which I am not too pleased with. Toward
the end, there are some dense textures that I wish I could
have gotten clearer... but the only way I could figure to do
that was to change the reverb on the fly, and that sounded
strange to me.

It is semi-improvisation, but there are plenty of things to hang on, and I dunno, it simply makes sense to me! It's one of those things that I just "get" with your music: connection! There is continuity (as well as with your previous opus).

Even in piano improvisation, I have never been able to escape
structure; even when I've tried... lol. I'm afraid I have no
greater success at such escape, here.

In short, once more, impressed, and happy to hear your music!

And btw, that was fast after your food experiment in music, huh? You didn't wait too long!

Nikolas

Many thanks, Nikolas, for your kind comments -- and for being
first to subject yourself to my musical assault on physics... rofl!

All my best,



David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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[LouisD]

This, yet another great piece from your "pen", inspires the imagination. I think even if you didn't mention the title to me when I listen to this, I would understand that it is trying to convey something that is really incomprehensible. This is a big way to make us aware of something so infinitely small. One of my favorite books is Stephen Hawking's Universe in a Nutshell, and I read it very often, although most of the time only pretending to really understand what the man is talking about. It makes me realize that I should rather stick to notes on manuscript paper....

I enjoy this music very much. Thank you.

[etLux]

Thanks for listening, Ron...

David,

I can't claim to know anything about physics

Me neither... And I wonder if the physicists do, either.

(except that gravity wins, in the end),

I take it you haven't read the chapter on Dark Matter
yet... lol.

but this did illustrate a key feature: the dual courses towards organization and chaos. From your description, I expected a much more dis-organized work, but it really hangs together well; and yet, it feels absolutely spontaneous. That is quite a feat!

Among the most profound, yet unspoken, sub-texts of quantum
physics is the question of who or what ultimately generates the
logic and reason of our cosmos' existence and function. The likewise
unspoken answer is equally profound: that the observers of a reality,
the participants within it, may very well be its creators; and if not
that, at humblest, the influences of its form and progress.

Thus, with music. The listener, as much as the writer, creates
the sense of a musical piece. And if the listener has the mind
and imagination to bring to it, the spontaneity is his as much as
mine.

Thank you for that, Ron.

There are some stylistic elements that are so recognizably yours - the trumpet bends, for example. The opening has a kind of minimalistic feel, with the motive being passed among the sections: it creates a web of motion that carries the ear to the less motoric passages. The open, space filled passages are lovely. I don't know if the mercurial quality is an aspect of quarks, but here they make for a very compelling work.

Glad to see you back in the kitchen so soon!

As always, this is a real pleasure.

Mercurial, perhaps; though simultaneity might disallow that; but
certainly the land of quarks and leptons is Alice-in-Wonderland
chimerical, at the least.

Thanks again, Ron, for comments that reveal much to me about
the able wanderings of your thoughts, my friend.

My best,



David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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[etLux]

Delightful chiral perturbation beside this small set, David!! I was virtually unprepared that we would be allowed to approach a glimpse of release without any evidence of any, while we were yet still in observation of parity profusion, but that it would almost edge the valence from confinement both during and after strange seemed to make some sort of inferred composite sense, that may otherwise not be possessed in a sea quark.

Remarkable that sound, rare and likely so reflective the conundrum of perplexity, i was in a semi-state of disambiguity.



David

Precisely!

(That's what I say when I have no idea whatever to say... rofl.)

Thank you for listening, David!

My best,



David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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[etLux]

David as always brilliant job. I have the upmost respect for your ability. I can't wait to see the score for this one!!!

Matt

Hi Matt,

Many thanks for the kind comment, my friend!

The score is now posted on www.DavidSosnowski.com, by the way.

Forum:

Don't miss the recordings from Matt's graduate recital,
here. I thought they did a great job -- on his string quartet,
especially.

Best,



David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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