The smoky forest (Vignettes)

A while ago there were forest fires burning near where I live which caused the whole landscape to be smoky and orange and hazy, which inspired me to write this. I experiment a little with polychords in this. This is probably the most harmonically advanced piece I’ve written, yet it never really strays too far from the key center of A flat.

Not sure if I would publish this because it kind of just sounds like Reflets dans l’eau, but I thought’s it’d be useful to post it here anyway.

edit: I never notated this and forgot how to play it lole

Great tone clusters at the beginning. I can imagine the trees falling and fires crushing the forest. But that overtone expresses the pathos well enough! I love your harmonic and chordal choices, especially those diminished octaves.

You should publish this since it's great. Brahms' First was deemed similiar to Beethoven's Ninth, even Brahms admitted that. So what? If your piece is good enough, which is the case here, you should publish it! At least Debussy's piece is not inspired by fire but by water! That makes huge difference!

Henry

This reminds me to the Aeolian Harp and pieces like that, by Cowell. I like it.

I think this is a very cleverly constructed piece. You paint a vivid picture with your tone colours.

Reminds me more of Scriabin I think, rather than Debussy, due to the dissonance.

Is this you playing? It sounds like a recording rather than a midi rendition.

On 12/27/2022 at 9:03 PM, Alex Weidmann said:

I think this is a very cleverly constructed piece. You paint a vivid picture with your tone colours.

Reminds me more of Scriabin I think, rather than Debussy, due to the dissonance.

Is this you playing? It sounds like a recording rather than a midi rendition.

 

yes it’s me playing