Ligeti was her composition teacher and some of her earlier pieces were actually written as assignments from Ligeti himself. So, it would be surprising if her earlier works diverged much from Ligeti’s.
These are awfully good. Sublime, invocatory, utterly pianstic. They night remind one of Sorabji. But they are pithy, make their point and don't stay around too long.
Not boring (@karllieck9064), but certainly incomprehensible - to me, at least - and, by the look of it, impossible for any 'normal' person to perform. So one has to ask: Why? Thanks for posting.
@@giuseppek 깨는 소리하네. 글의 본질을 모르고 답글 다는군. 음악을 음학으로 보는 스탈이네. 잊혀지지 않은 퍼퓰클래식 중에 사랑스럽지 않은 곡이 있나봐라. 쉔베르그, 스톡하우젠, 피니쉬 등 그런 곡들에서 감동을 찾아봐라. 실험은 실험일 뿐. 딱 보니 편곡이랑 음향 관련쪽인거 같은데 그쪽 애들은 하나같이 멘트가 똑같냐.
Brilliant pieces, and wonderful pianist! I have discovered Unsuk Chin through a composer friend, and really love her music. These pieces just bring out wonderful sonorities and layers in the piano. Her pieces have a definite structure and ideas. Thank you!
The harmony is mostly an amalgamation of overtone and whole tone harmonies with occasional triads punctuating as with most of her work. Beyond that, her treatment of form, rhythm, and melody is largely conventional' Asymmetrical 'limping' rhythmic groups in multiples of 2 and 3 that isn't really any more radical than what Stravinsky was doing nearly a century before, melodic lines that often expand arithmetically that recall Messiaen's 'asymmetrical growth processes'; a sectional approach to form that's mostly articulated in tempo contrasts, etc. etc. I haven't encountered any truly profound analyses of her music, but as far as I can tell, if you study Ligeti's music from about the 70s onward (which there are a number of great studies on), then you should be in the ballpark for understanding how to write like this.
@@prepcoin_nl4362 these things are true, but I think she hearkens some things from the impressionists, Debussy and also driving rhythms and repeated motives like you say, Stravinsky, however, also Bartok I think, I think that S. Wang does a fabulous jobs of getting orchestral type sounds from the piano~very imaginative, rhythmically so impressive! Yes she studied with Ligeti. I think she really has developed her own sound. She writes really well for the piano (helped by this amazing pianist!)
