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

mostly solo piano.
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
requesting Chopin pls
Canary trump supporter
  01/17/26
Chopin is from the 19th century, so we'll have to resort to ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
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Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask
  01/17/26
The second nocturne from Sciarrino's Due Notturni Crudeli --...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
wild, ty!
Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask
  01/17/26
There's usually no middle ground with this type of music: yo...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
that kind of music generally sucks, but content
Territorial Avocado Orchestra Pit
  01/17/26
Have to go with Ferneyhough then. He's obviously a cynical f...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
180, the piece qua music isn't even that horrible, but the u...
Territorial Avocado Orchestra Pit
  01/17/26
The problem here is that this incomprehensibly complex style...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
but content tp
Sticky base gaping
  01/17/26
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know-it-all odious pit ladyboy
  01/17/26
Sorabji's 19th etude. Oddly upbeat and unserious considering...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
Jcm here
bateful pisswyrm corn cake
  01/17/26
Julius Eastman's "Crazy Nigger": https://www.youtu...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
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Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
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dashing community account
  01/17/26
Hikari Kiyama's "Three Shells" for two hands and o...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
this is completely preposterous
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
...
dashing community account
  01/17/26
I'm Facebook friends with the pianist Ljl
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
lmao
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
And the composer too. Almost forgot.
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
This isn't even Kiyama's most preposterous piece. Check out ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/18/26
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well-lubricated multi-colored shrine idiot
  01/17/26
Michael Finnissy's Piano Concerto no. 4 for solo piano: http...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
Nice, still discernible dramatic arc though dissonant
well-lubricated multi-colored shrine idiot
  01/17/26
Yes, I view this piece as being pushed to the absolute limit...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
I have attended one of the note changes in the Halberstadt p...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
I rate you as insufferable minimalism by John Adams. Here's ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
180 thank you you used the phrase "obviously a cynical...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
No doubt John Cage spewed out a lot of pure trash, but some ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
can you please link me to Cage's pieces for prepared piano y...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
Haven't listened to them in over a decade at this point, so ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
link in here please if any come to mind later on, I've never...
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAImmOqNzzs
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
ty
Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal
  01/17/26
Herbert Henck is a great pianist. I believe his recordings o...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
Damn just looked him up, and he died recently. RIP bro.
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
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histrionic deep ape resort
  01/17/26
"Evryali" by Iannis Xenakis, specifically Takahash...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
...
flickering erotic center goal in life
  01/17/26
is this a compliment? are we friends?
histrionic deep ape resort
  01/17/26
This is my favorite piece by Xenakis.
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
I love you so much
histrionic deep ape resort
  01/17/26
...
flickering erotic center goal in life
  01/17/26
Clarence Barlow's variations on the last movement from Beeth...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
...
Razzle-dazzle mustard point
  01/17/26
I hate to mention the same composer twice, but I can't think...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/18/26
do you know this? Fazil Say - Black Earth interesting te...
Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask
  01/17/26
I know the pianist/composer, but I haven't heard this partic...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/17/26
understood. and yes i understand this reaching inside is fr...
Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask
  01/17/26
Reaching inside was Cowell's innovation. And Cowell was one ...
appetizing nubile faggot firefighter
  01/18/26
...
Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask
  01/18/26


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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:20 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

mostly solo piano.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596192)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:23 AM
Author: Canary trump supporter

requesting Chopin pls

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596197)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:27 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596202)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:24 AM
Author: Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596198)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 10:29 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596206)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:05 PM
Author: Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask

wild, ty!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596339)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:37 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596419)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:03 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596874)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:26 PM
Author: Territorial Avocado Orchestra Pit

that kind of music generally sucks, but content

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596394)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:30 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596404)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Territorial Avocado Orchestra Pit

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\u0026show=month#49597223)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:57 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49597685)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:58 PM
Author: Sticky base gaping

but content tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597001)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:41 PM
Author: know-it-all odious pit ladyboy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596425)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 12:47 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596437)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:17 PM
Author: bateful pisswyrm corn cake

Jcm here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596525)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:18 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596530)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596884)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 1:20 PM
Author: dashing community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596538)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:55 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596865)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:22 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

this is completely preposterous

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596919)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:41 PM
Author: dashing community account



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596958)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:47 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

I'm Facebook friends with the pianist Ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596979)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596985)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:58 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

And the composer too. Almost forgot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596999)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:48 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597089)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 9:19 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49598324)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:56 PM
Author: well-lubricated multi-colored shrine idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596869)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:59 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596870)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: well-lubricated multi-colored shrine idiot

Nice, still discernible dramatic arc though dissonant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596948)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:50 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596986)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:05 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

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\u0026show=month#49596877)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:10 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596883)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:12 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

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\u0026show=month#49596891)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:16 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596904)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:20 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

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\u0026show=month#49596915)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:34 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596940)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:36 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

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\u0026show=month#49596945)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:40 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596952)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:49 PM
Author: Orchid learning disabled immigrant son of senegal

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596984)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:52 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49596991)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:53 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596993)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:38 PM
Author: histrionic deep ape resort



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49596950)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 3:48 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

"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\u0026show=month#49596980)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: flickering erotic center goal in life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597105)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 6:25 PM
Author: histrionic deep ape resort

is this a compliment? are we friends?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597348)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

This is my favorite piece by Xenakis.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597403)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 7:24 PM
Author: histrionic deep ape resort

I love you so much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597475)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 4:52 PM
Author: flickering erotic center goal in life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597104)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 5:02 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49597137)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 7:00 PM
Author: Razzle-dazzle mustard point



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49597425)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 8:56 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49598298)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:10 PM
Author: Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask

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\u0026show=month#49597568)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 8:43 PM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49597648)



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Date: January 17th, 2026 9:45 PM
Author: Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask

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\u0026show=month#49597813)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 8:54 AM
Author: appetizing nubile faggot firefighter

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\u0026show=month#49598296)



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Date: January 18th, 2026 10:26 AM
Author: Galvanic hideous abode pocket flask



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5823208&forum_id=2\u0026show=month#49598425)