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Thread #115670 Message #2478166
Posted By: Donuel
28-Oct-08 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: BS: Music Science question
Subject: BS: Music Science question
Once again I am acting as an advisor/muse for my composer friend who is finishing his 3rd symphony that is themed as The wind of the Universe.
The work is dedicated to the Science Institute south of Tapei which is known as the city of wind.
The 1st movement is the inception of space time and the birth of the Universe and life. The 2nd is Quantum. 3rd is Earthly wind and the 4th is man's scientific and emotional overview of the multiverse.
Uniting scientific aspects of physics and the music is important to the work.
Things we have tried to portray sucessfully so far has been the: virtual quantum particles, quantum leaps, evolution of life and extinctions, the current background radiation of the big bang found to be Bflat 42 octaves below middle C, radiation, string theory and mathmatical truisms.
The question I pose to you is if you can think of any questions or observations of the Universe which you think could be suggested in such a symphony. Edits and changes are now being done along with the help of a famous 88 year old orchestrator.
Be it a leit motif, various insrumental effects (like wind sounds from harmonic dello strings) or a mathmatical relationship or a truth aout the Universe you think is important, I would welcome any suggestions you may have or other works that have a similar intent we could hear.
If I learn to upload to youtube I could even post segments of the first or second movement in midi version. The piece has very lyrical moments as well as intricate rhythmic and tonal experiments.
My friend's last piano concerto had its first performance at the Kennedy center and the violin concerto before that was first heard in Taiwan, so this symphony will be performed by an Orchestra within about a year.