Crazy things in composition???

Who needs cymbal crashes to finish out a song!? Composerorganist, you

Karlheinz Stockhausen did that he was trying to simulate the helicopters sound with a string quartet.

Google his name also there are some videos on YouTube;)

The piece was simulcast to audiences in... Vienna, I believe. The string quartet members were driven to four different airfields at different points in the city, taken up in four different helicopters, and then flown around the city while an audio/video engineer in the concert hall balanced the film feeds.

Helikopterstreichquartet - brilliant.

Do you think it would be possible to make money off a blank score claiming it to be artistic? Talk about an awesome scam! :w00t::musicwhistle:

Old idea. Way old. In fact there are also paintings, I believe one is called "Polar Bear Caught in a Snow Storm" that consists of only a blank canvas, however Google isn't helping me verify this.

(Or maybe, to start, I should write a one note piece and try and sell it to orchestras....) :shifty:

Already done:

"Crazy" to me is a very relevant term...

As a composer for media, most of the time I don't get to do alot of crazy things, but I do have some time to make my own music.

I have written some progressive jazz pieces that have two or three different time signatures going on at the same time, as well as band members playing on different scales at the same time...

Maybe I have some recording of my old band playing some of those pieces if you're interested.

Apart from the jazz scene (where it's a lot easier to get away with "crazy"), in my concert music I've tried to bring "crazy" onto the stage now and again, most of the time it went rather well.

I don't think I've ever done anything that no one has done before, but I've had those moments when you just go "I'm writing that dissonance in and I don't care if the audience hates it", because it's what I wanted to do with the music.

So, few dissonants, few odd-meters, few strange performance instructions (for example, all the woodwinds section got percussion scores - and had to open and close their instrument buttons in time, the lead violinist got a jazzy chart with nothing but harmony and the suggestion to improvise a winter day, etc...)

Omri.