Jamie's Casting - "Will I find true love?"

Hello yet again!  Here's another Muzoracle casting for you.  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.)  This time, Jamie asked the Muzoracle if she will find true love:

My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  This time I wrote a piece for flute (because the Minor 7th card at left is in the suit of woodwinds and Jamie used to play flute), piano (because the Minor 7th card in the middle is in the suit of percussion) and soprano (because the Minor 7th card at right is in the suit of voices).  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here:  https://muzoracle.com/

This time I managed to stretch out the musical materials and make them last 2 minutes.  It is however just meant to be an aural representation of the casting and not necessarily it's own fully fledged piece of music with different sections (that's one of the difficulties I am having is how to bring structure and contrast to different parts of the composition while still staying true to the casting).  The piece is in F# since the black 12-sided Musician's die landed on F#.  The solfege dice landed on Se, So, Ti and Fa and I ornamented the piece with the minor 7ths above each degree since all the cards drawn were minor 7ths.  If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Jamie's casting.  Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome.

i love this concept and the music is so interesting.  I used to be all up in these kind of “next level” things so the fact that you combined it with music is ingeniously creative to me.

3 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

It is however just meant to be an aural representation of the casting and not necessarily it's own fully fledged piece of music with different sections (that's one of the difficulties I am having is how to bring structure and contrast to different parts of the composition while still staying true to the casting). 

Eh don't rack your brain over it. I like that these are very short solilo... uh, pieces. Maybe form could be left for non-dice-related music. Or maybe your forms could somehow be derived from dice...

hmm... 🤔

Anyway, this is my favorite one so far. I really liked the theme this time. But, maybe since it was randomly generated I randomly liked it...

HMMM

So much thinking this time, yeesh. But the theme and especially the left hand piano line were stunning. Maybe take from these when you're done and develop cool ideas further for future pieces? Overall though, definitely enjoyable to hear. Maybe the flute could have faded out with the other instruments, it kinda dragged a bit at the end to me. 

Thanks for sharing!

Yo Peter,

This one is so goddamn mesmerising just like love. It’s tricky, addictive, dreamy, a bit horrible, just like your music here. It’s so amazing that you come up with so great of the harmonic colour and timbre for a random theme. Like Vince I am in awe with the theme and left hand piano, but I am also in awe with the flute and dreamy echoing right hand of piano. The only thing I love less is the voice haha. I mean, even a gamelan would have been better than the voice!!😝 Thx for sharing!

Btw hope Jamie finds his true love!

Henry

5 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

The only thing I love less is the voice haha. I mean, even a gamelan would have been better than the voice!!😝

LoL - that was mandated by the voices card!  I had to include some kind of voice!

5 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Btw hope Jamie finds his true love!

You mean her  true love?  LoL 🤣