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rating poasters as bizarre classical music from the 20th/21st centuries

mostly solo piano.
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
requesting Chopin pls
Multi-colored Silver Hospital Dingle Berry
  01/17/26
Chopin is from the 19th century, so we'll have to resort to ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
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tantric concupiscible love of her life
  01/17/26
The second nocturne from Sciarrino's Due Notturni Crudeli --...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
wild, ty!
tantric concupiscible love of her life
  01/17/26
There's usually no middle ground with this type of music: yo...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
that kind of music generally sucks, but content
Bespoke Pale Weed Whacker Menage
  01/17/26
Have to go with Ferneyhough then. He's obviously a cynical f...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
180, the piece qua music isn't even that horrible, but the u...
Bespoke Pale Weed Whacker Menage
  01/17/26
The problem here is that this incomprehensibly complex style...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
but content tp
Adventurous green church building
  01/17/26
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Ruddy Office
  01/17/26
Sorabji's 19th etude. Oddly upbeat and unserious considering...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
Jcm here
Demanding Flickering Fortuitous Meteor Spot
  01/17/26
Julius Eastman's "Crazy Nigger": https://www.youtu...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
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brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
...
harsh idea he suggested bawdyhouse
  01/17/26
Hikari Kiyama's "Three Shells" for two hands and o...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
this is completely preposterous
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
...
harsh idea he suggested bawdyhouse
  01/17/26
I'm Facebook friends with the pianist Ljl
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
lmao
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
And the composer too. Almost forgot.
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
This isn't even Kiyama's most preposterous piece. Check out ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/18/26
...
comical state cumskin
  01/17/26
Michael Finnissy's Piano Concerto no. 4 for solo piano: http...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
Nice, still discernible dramatic arc though dissonant
comical state cumskin
  01/17/26
Yes, I view this piece as being pushed to the absolute limit...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
I have attended one of the note changes in the Halberstadt p...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
I rate you as insufferable minimalism by John Adams. Here's ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
180 thank you you used the phrase "obviously a cynical...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
No doubt John Cage spewed out a lot of pure trash, but some ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
can you please link me to Cage's pieces for prepared piano y...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
Haven't listened to them in over a decade at this point, so ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
link in here please if any come to mind later on, I've never...
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAImmOqNzzs
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
ty
brindle swashbuckling sex offender university
  01/17/26
Herbert Henck is a great pianist. I believe his recordings o...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
Damn just looked him up, and he died recently. RIP bro.
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
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Soul-stirring laser beams
  01/17/26
"Evryali" by Iannis Xenakis, specifically Takahash...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
...
wine brunch tank
  01/17/26
is this a compliment? are we friends?
Soul-stirring laser beams
  01/17/26
This is my favorite piece by Xenakis.
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
I love you so much
Soul-stirring laser beams
  01/17/26
...
wine brunch tank
  01/17/26
Clarence Barlow's variations on the last movement from Beeth...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
...
wonderful big-titted library
  01/17/26
I hate to mention the same composer twice, but I can't think...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/18/26
do you know this? Fazil Say - Black Earth interesting te...
tantric concupiscible love of her life
  01/17/26
I know the pianist/composer, but I haven't heard this partic...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/17/26
understood. and yes i understand this reaching inside is fr...
tantric concupiscible love of her life
  01/17/26
Reaching inside was Cowell's innovation. And Cowell was one ...
floppy pontificating pervert
  01/18/26
...
tantric concupiscible love of her life
  01/18/26


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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:20 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

mostly solo piano.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596192)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:23 AM
Author: Multi-colored Silver Hospital Dingle Berry

requesting Chopin pls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596197)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:27 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Chopin is from the 19th century, so we'll have to resort to an early 20th-century reintepretation of Chopin's etudes by Godowsky. Not particularly bizarre, just difficult to perform. Apologies in advance for any disappointment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuEa1XLEVSw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596202)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:24 AM
Author: tantric concupiscible love of her life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596198)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:29 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

The second nocturne from Sciarrino's Due Notturni Crudeli -- to be performed with rage per the composer's instructions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_dn3ORLq6s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596206)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: tantric concupiscible love of her life

wild, ty!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596339)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

There's usually no middle ground with this type of music: you either love it or violently hate it and think it's just noise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596419)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596874)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: Bespoke Pale Weed Whacker Menage

that kind of music generally sucks, but content

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596394)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Have to go with Ferneyhough then. He's obviously a cynical fraud and charlatan, but that's true of most composers with a similar style. Personally I can't stand any of his music. Enjoy! Just look at how pretentious the piece's title is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMXbM0RCeU



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596404)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Bespoke Pale Weed Whacker Menage

180, the piece qua music isn't even that horrible, but the unreadble notation and beyond pretentious title push it over the top

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597223)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:57 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

The problem here is that this incomprehensibly complex style is taken to the point where I could create the same semi-random but pointlessly complex music despite me having no talent as a composer. That's why you can't take Ferneyhough or similar composers seriously. But they do want you to take them seriously. After all, Ferneyhough made it all the way to Stanford with this gibberish "music."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597685)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:58 PM
Author: Adventurous green church building

but content tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597001)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: Ruddy Office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596425)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Sorabji's 19th etude. Oddly upbeat and unserious considering Sorabji's typically serious style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFZYqLqBHOc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596437)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:17 PM
Author: Demanding Flickering Fortuitous Meteor Spot

Jcm here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596525)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Julius Eastman's "Crazy Nigger": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aR0naIp9eM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596530)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596884)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: harsh idea he suggested bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596538)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:55 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Hikari Kiyama's "Three Shells" for two hands and one foot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyy3CRuMQnc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596865)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:22 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

this is completely preposterous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596919)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:41 PM
Author: harsh idea he suggested bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596958)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:47 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

I'm Facebook friends with the pianist Ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596979)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596985)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:58 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

And the composer too. Almost forgot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596999)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:48 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597089)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 9:19 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

This isn't even Kiyama's most preposterous piece. Check out his "Innocent Prisoner" for piano and voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LIw8ykSmGU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49598324)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:56 PM
Author: comical state cumskin



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596869)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Michael Finnissy's Piano Concerto no. 4 for solo piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKfFaSWr4m0

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596870)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: comical state cumskin

Nice, still discernible dramatic arc though dissonant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596948)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Yes, I view this piece as being pushed to the absolute limit of dissonance and complexity without devolving into randomness. Actually it goes too far, but there's much worse out there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596986)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

I have attended one of the note changes in the Halberstadt performance of John Cage's As Slow As Possible. Rate me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596877)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

I rate you as insufferable minimalism by John Adams. Here's his "Phrygian Gates": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DixKnE9HqIU

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596883)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

180 thank you

you used the phrase "obviously a cynical fraud and charlatan" above and that is how I view Cage but others may disagree

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596891)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:16 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

No doubt John Cage spewed out a lot of pure trash, but some of his music is actually enjoyable. For instance, his pieces for prepared piano.

Ferneyhough, the fraud and charlatan, is just SPS with no redeeming qualities. It's just unnecessary complexity and near-randomness that ordinary people laugh at (and should).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596904)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

can you please link me to Cage's pieces for prepared piano you enjoyed?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596915)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Haven't listened to them in over a decade at this point, so I don't remember specific pieces. The interesting ones had minimalist aspects IIRC. The problem with the recordings is the piano preparation and resultant sound varies wildly with each recording. So some recordings sound dull while others are more lively.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596940)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:36 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

link in here please if any come to mind later on, I've never been able to enjoy anything by Cage but I'm open to reassessing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596945)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAImmOqNzzs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596952)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: brindle swashbuckling sex offender university

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596984)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Herbert Henck is a great pianist. I believe his recordings of Cage's works were my favorite.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596991)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Damn just looked him up, and he died recently. RIP bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596993)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: Soul-stirring laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596950)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:48 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

"Evryali" by Iannis Xenakis, specifically Takahashi's recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbUgAXt75s8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49596980)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: wine brunch tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597105)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: Soul-stirring laser beams

is this a compliment? are we friends?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597348)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

This is my favorite piece by Xenakis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597403)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 7:24 PM
Author: Soul-stirring laser beams

I love you so much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597475)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: wine brunch tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597104)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Clarence Barlow's variations on the last movement from Beethoven's last piano sonata, for mechanical piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gyJkYWdWWo (gets interesting after about 8-10 minutes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597137)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 7:00 PM
Author: wonderful big-titted library



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597425)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

I hate to mention the same composer twice, but I can't think of anything more appropriate than Michael Finnissy's Piano Concerto no. 6 for solo piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Y1bZYi60M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49598298)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:10 PM
Author: tantric concupiscible love of her life

do you know this? Fazil Say - Black Earth

interesting technique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtybgToH2Q&t=28s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597568)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:43 PM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

I know the pianist/composer, but I haven't heard this particular piece. Classical music snobs would probably thumb their noses at this piece, but the snobs can be ignored. All that matters is whether you like it.

The technique of modifying the sound of the piano by interacting with the strings themselves is not new. Henry Cowell first explored this around 100 or so years ago. John Cage took the idea further in his pieces for prepared piano, which I mentioned earlier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597648)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 9:45 PM
Author: tantric concupiscible love of her life

understood. and yes i understand this reaching inside is from cage - i like this a lot more than him though

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49597813)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 8:54 AM
Author: floppy pontificating pervert

Reaching inside was Cowell's innovation. And Cowell was one of Cage's teachers, if I remember correctly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49598296)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 10:26 AM
Author: tantric concupiscible love of her life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310894#49598425)