Horatiu Radulescu: String Quartet No. 5 "before the universe was born" 

@carl bernstein It's ironic! And the blade of irony is turned towards ignorant majority of people who hardly heard about the country and know nothing about its rich and important/influential culture and science (yet it produces that great music). The word Romania could be replaced by Lithuania, Poland or Estonia :D

@carl bernstein So well, the joke wasn't very good (you didn't catch is because of that) but the intention was at least fair ;)

+elgatosucio uninformed opinion, however.

+elgatosucio The Composer played Violin all his life, he knew exactly what he was doing, after 800 years of the same kind of sounds and ways to hear and play the string family of instruments, in the 20th and 21st century, composers wanted to change it up a bit and help us discover new sounds.

I think it's because a lot of composers just flat out don't want to use melody. Which I know is hard to believe. But I'm a composer myself (in conservatory) and I rarely ever use melody. Because in the world I'm trying to create, melody would be imposing, cliche, distracting, or even flat-out meaningless.

Komponist, 100% AGREE.

"The material derives from the natural growth of sonority, from the macrostructure and not the other way round." - Gerard Grisey

Wonderful piece.

K0MP0NIST Well, I think if he is trying to really represent before the universe was born, 5 minutes would be too short, but I agree musically this could be much shorter and still have the same amount of "content". It's more of a meditative excersize/concept piece to listen to. Also it doesn't make much sense to me as someone with actual physics qualifications (most artists who like to represent science in their work don't understand it too well) it makes hardly any sense based on what we actually know about pre-big bang conditions. For me a much more inventive and interesting to listen to piece in a similar style is "Zipangu" by Claude Vivier, there are some contrasting sections in there (I find the slow section to be incredibly beautiful) and some incredibly effects which I feel really keep the interest of the listener compared to this piece. But then as I said, it's not really meant to be listened to in the traditional way.

Jonny Martinez Sentimental music disgusts me and I like the exploration of new frontiers here(the harmonics.) The rythemlessness of it, this style us taking over my music collection. Sounds boring on anything that lacks resolving treble, that being any consumer audio product with a focus on bumping beats & sizzle, hence why I didn't find it sooner

if you want it to be pleasuring to the ears, there's no chance of missing it if you just shut up and listen like a open human being, little tiger :)

why do artists proceed and develop new forms of art? Is that your question?

I actually like this music QUITE A LOT. How you fail to appreciate it is completely beyond me. Implying that no one would like it is an absolute lie. Also, I hate to break it to you, but no one writes music in the classical or romantic styles anymore. Classical music has undergone so many innovations over the past several decades, and has become more and more modern and experimental. So therefore, this music isn't terrible, but your comment is terrible.