Category: Instrumentals

From time to time, I enjoy minimal music. Steve Reich and Simeon Ten Holt are among my favorites. So, I decided to give it a try myself—after all, isn’t minimal music essentially just the repetition of patterns? Well, not exactly, but that was my approach back around 2010. In any case, it’s minimal. It’s piano. At the end, I’ve included an announcement—recordered from a classical radio station—regarding a piece of music that was, presumably, contemporary. Here is the translation:
“Perhaps you are wondering: is this Mahlerian Romanticism in a loop, a chromatic jest, or perhaps the rebirth of so-called ‘accessible music’—following all the serial and pointillist intensity of the avant-garde from the sixties?”
I have no idea what he’s talking about, but I found it very fitting.

A kind of popping tune.

The sound of a crowd. Can’t remember the source, but there are a lot of crowd-video’s on YouTube, so I guess the original can be found there.  It’s interesting to imagine the setting. Is it a swimming pool? An event? An airport?  With the underlying ambient music it becomes some kind of soundscape.

This is actually not going anywhere, it just keeps going. But I like this.

Another acid like loop-beat that doesn’t go anywhere and just makes the eardrums vibrate. Above all, it has nothing to do with a boomerang.. I’m just making that up.

A pattern of signals.

This is an experiment to compose a classical work by drawing the notes one by one in the sequencer window. The picture shows what that looks like. The length of the notes is still quite difficult, which is why it does sound a bit slow in the end.

This is a very irritating piece of composition that sounds like someone making music with a rubber band between their teeth. Hopefully it will pop out of his hands and then pop back against his lips.

This started as a joke, to stack as much sound as possible, but eventually it became a euphoric melody.

Am I the only one hearing it? I hear “funboy” say. They are actually violin sounds edited with effects.