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Re: Stop the Medication?

Author: clarnibass
Date: 2008-12-05 17:15

It was very interesting listening to this. It's possible that I wouldn't like a lot of music in this style, but I really liked this piece, which I've never heard before. It had especially good moments.

I listened to all the versions posted here, and the one I liked the most is the first one of the clarinet player (the one with "the shirt"). The reason is that because of several things, the music had another dimention which made it more interesting. What did it was a combination of the sound on YouTube, with my not that great (but not lousy either) speakers, which made it sound a bit old, noisy and mostly trebley. Especially with the very flat (as in monotonic in a way) tone of the clarinet it was very good. Actually the piano would have been better sounding even a bit older and "worse" but it was still ok this way. This made a very interesting "electronic" sound which gave it almost a mechanical feel (mechanical in its specific sense, not as a bad thing). I doubt any of this was done on purpose but that doesn't matter anyway.

The other versions on violin sounded very good as a sort of song, but a bit plain and maybe even a little naive, in that most things the player adds sound very good but they are already obvious from the music itself. Maybe a little like telling you something and imediatley explain it, assuming you didn't understand. I wouldn't say these versions are bad, but it really depends on the type of person to realize if they like each version and see the reasons why they (or someone) would like one more, etc.

Playing this on soprano saxophone can be interesting but it is very risky also to make it too obvious. At least with all the ways and types of sounds I'm imagining this with sorpano sax, the best would be to play it mostly like it was a clarinet.

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