{"id":4131,"date":"2012-05-31T06:33:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2012-05-31T06:33:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T11:33:02","slug":"nico-muhlys-pianos-drones-more-than-a-one-note-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/05\/31\/nico-muhlys-pianos-drones-more-than-a-one-note-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Muhly&#8217;s Pianos &#038; Drones more than a one-note wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4133\" title=\"D&amp;P\" src=\"http:\/\/207.112.70.56\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/dp.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/dp.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/dp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/dp-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>An interesting interview in the <em>Telegraph<\/em> with American composer Nico Muhly features audio streaming of his latest recorded composition, <em>Drones &amp; Piano<\/em>, which weaves music around a single note over five movements in 14 minutes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that makes music sound interesting to us is harmonic variation. (I love to turn to Beethoven&#8217;s piano sonatas as examples of this, where he&#8217;ll alternate between major and minor keys as he develops a subject. Even Philip Glass, with his seemingly static pattern repetitions does this.) So to create a piece around a single note suggests the potential for monotony.<\/p>\n<p>But the result is anything but. It&#8217;s worth a listen. Sometimes, the music is a bit busy, but it&#8217;s real appeal is in savouring how Muhly creatively uses consonance and dissonance with his chosen drone.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/lucyjones\/100063604\/classical-music-dead-hear-nico-muhlys-vacuum-inspired-drone-music-and-find-out-who-he-really-wants-to-work-with\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> &#8212; and enjoy how Muhly, a frequent collaborator with pop musicians, puts down those people who keep predicting the death of classical music.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the album, click <a href=\"http:\/\/nicomuhly.bandcamp.com\/album\/drones-piano\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting interview in the Telegraph with American composer Nico Muhly features audio streaming of his latest recorded composition, Drones &amp; Piano, which weaves music around a single note over five movements in 14 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10,18,36,81,42,51],"tags":[1089,6459,2399,3154],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/05\/dp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-14D","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}