Oh god. This is magnificant. That colours of microtones ah... Thanks for masterpiece!
@Fabio_Costa_MusicАй бұрын
Merci, my friend! It's really wonderful to read your feedback 🙂There's a whole fascinating world in microtonality to be explored...! Best, Fabio
@EmiliasoooАй бұрын
I'M CRYING!!!
@Fabio_Costa_MusicАй бұрын
Thank you for listening!! 🙂
@ernicofb2 ай бұрын
muito feliz em saber que um compositor brasileiro conseguiu fazer uma música tão tocante e inovadora ao mesmo tempo, muito sucesso! Achei a peça genial, e linda!
@Fabio_Costa_MusicАй бұрын
Puxa, muito obrigado! Fico honradissimo com o comentário! Vc também é compositor? Grande abraço!
@PromptStreamer2 ай бұрын
Very Debussy.
@Fabio_Costa_Music2 ай бұрын
Well, Debussy certainly implies a lot the overtone series, particularly 11-limit, as does Ravel and Scriabin at that time, among others. Thanks for listening and commenting :-)
@ekaterinekhvedelidze2 ай бұрын
Wow, I'm overwhelmed, What a discovery of harmonies. I’m proud to work with you, Fabio! You are a great Musician!! Thanks so much! ♥️
@Fabio_Costa_Music2 ай бұрын
Liebe Eka, die Freude ist all meinerseits! Vielen herzlichen Dank! :-)
@romeolz2 ай бұрын
perfect 12ths with one hand :o what's the farthest you can comfortably reach?
@Fabio_Costa_Music2 ай бұрын
Hi, in this tuning, layout and keyboard (of which the keys are not small), a 12th is about how far my hand reaches - in a normal piano I get a (perfect) 11th.
@martincacho86243 ай бұрын
Love how you use those upper harmonics
@Fabio_Costa_Music2 ай бұрын
Thank you a lot! Happy and encouraged to hear it! 🙂
@bluebull3993 ай бұрын
We are definitely on the verge of a new frontier. There's lots of microtonal music that is really terrible, and then there's music like this which is absolutely mind blowing. I definitely can see microtonal making its way into rock and pop music. Since this video was posted 7 years ago, I've already noticed it making inroads into jazz and hiphop. I'm suprised there isn't more microtonal orchestral music. Classical music is where most of the talented musicians exist, but they are also some of the most stubborn ;-) I can imagine them fiercely rejecting micro tonal as it goes against years of training.
@Fabio_Costa_Music2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for the comment, deeply appreciated! Many folks out there doing great microtonal stuff in many styles. Look up Georg Vogel, Sander Germanus and the Hallucinating Harmonists, Sevish - and numerous others, many in BandCamp. I agree, classical musicians often have a strong resistance to microtonality, maybe for one an aural question but also a lack of exposure or background.
@steve-40453 ай бұрын
31-tone is much more consonant than 12 and much more versatile than 19. Mathematically it approximates quarter-comma meantone, with all the right notes for practically every key, naturals, sharps, flats, double sharps, double flats. So appropriately scored, it plays Baroque music very well. You can do Bach’s WTC without the tempering.
@arnavdave28363 ай бұрын
Hello Maestro Costa. Ever since I commented here 3 months ago, I’ve been absolutely enamored with this piece. You’ve been of great help and inspiration for me, with this piece. I am a 20 year old composer and I recently just completed my first microtonal piece. It is a string quartet in quarter tone tuning (24EDO).
@rafaellazorealstate61063 ай бұрын
tears burning down my eyes, what an elegant score, and what a piece, omg the performers 100/100, sublime
@Fabio_Costa_Music3 ай бұрын
Oh, thank you so, so much! Yes, they were (and are) exceptional musicians, also my friend and brilliant fellow composer Sander Germanus, who organised all of it! :-)
@lizardbrain48363 ай бұрын
5:55 woooow what a moment. I am just now dabbling in microtonality and I can't believe what I have been missing all this time! Congrats on this incredible composition! You have earned yourself a sub :)
@Fabio_Costa_Music3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I'm happy to read your feedback! Best, Fabio
@max_mussi3 ай бұрын
How can I learn to compose xenharminic music as someone who has a rudimentary understanding of music theory?
@Fabio_Costa_Music3 ай бұрын
Hi there! I guess the answer is the more you munition yourself with rudiments of musical theory, the further and the deeper you will be able to have the musical/compositional insight which will in turn feed into your musical instincts in a virtuous cycle. So I highly encourage you to delve as deep as possible into musical theory side by side with practice! :-)
@fabiopalma44294 ай бұрын
Muito interessante o seu estilo amigo. A minha primeira experiência com microtons foi no acordeão de quartos-tons. Gostei muito desta obra e vou explorar mais as suas coisas. Forte abraço de Portugal!
@tylerj.holt-trumpetercompo5664 ай бұрын
Phenomenal piece through and through! I started my composing journey because of microtonal music and have recently revisited it. 1:49 is probably my favorite chord I’ve ever heard among many throughout. Keep up the incredible work!
@Fabio_Costa_Music4 ай бұрын
Many, many thanks! 🙂 So, do you play microtonally on the trumpet too?
@tylerj.holt-trumpetercompo5663 ай бұрын
@@Fabio_Costa_Musicyou’re very welcome! I tried to initially but I never pursued it further. I’ve written a quasi-microtonal trumpet etude where I instruct the play the natural tone of each note. Aside from that, under certain circumstances, I play microtones on trumpet if you catch my drift.
@AjStillabower4 ай бұрын
yes.
@Alexander-oh8ry4 ай бұрын
The microtonality is real cool, but why on earth these confusing and long time signatures?
@Fabio_Costa_Music4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the message! As for the notation, it's a good question, I think there are many factors behind it. First, it refers somehow to pre-baroque music, particularly the high style of vocal polyphony of the renaissance, with composers such as Ockeghem and Josquin above all, which I studied quite a bit, and they have is a footing in mensural notation which uses exactly these kind of durations (double or quadruple the post-baroque); the very roots of vocal polyphony are in this style. But there is also a relationship with 31-edo, since it is so to speak an extension of 1/4-comma meantone, very frequent around the renaissance. The musicians of the Huygens-Fokker and the foundation itself have a very active report to old music, such as Vicentino and others, so dealing with this kind of notation is no problem at all for them, on the contrary, they are well trained and proficient at it. Another factor would be that the piece asks for a deliberate tempo pretty much in function of the harmonic material, in other words, the drive is not rhythmic but rather harmonic, so I felt the notation could be conducive to that, particularly in the end part. In the beginning I chose the eight notes to be the underlying maximum common divisor, instead of sixteenth notes, because again I felt it would best convey the character I was loking for. I hope that gives some clarifying background for your interesting question.
@leonardodigrazia97584 ай бұрын
Wow, what a work. I suppose there is no fixed wolf fifth is there?
@Fabio_Costa_Music4 ай бұрын
Thanks. It's an equal temperament, all fiths are flat by about 7 cents.
@BrianJosephMorgan4 ай бұрын
Very interesting.
@Isakaadland4 ай бұрын
7:36
@lucaspancotto24155 ай бұрын
this is incredible
@Fabio_Costa_Music4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! :-)
@AndromedaCripps5 ай бұрын
I am new to the world of fully microtonal music- none of my peers in college were working in microtonal systems, and I left school before studying anything like this in music theory. But recently KZfaq has been throwing microtonal music at me left and right, day in and day out. And the thing is- I’m not even listening to much of what it throws at me, because it can be a little unapproachable to someone new to the sounds it can create. Before this, Jacob Collier was the closest I had ever gotten to this world. I mean, for context, I listen to a decent amount of contemporary classical music and I like to broaden my horizon to the fringes of experimental music of the past century when I can, and I’m extremely comfortable calling most dissonance “consonance”, or at least treating it that way compositionally 😂 But this music has been difficult for me to appreciate. Part of the problem is how bewildering and disorienting microtonal music can be. For someone used to the 12-tone equal temperament system, it sounds like something flitting into and out of tune at first, even if you know that true harmonics are not even tuned to a 12-tone equal temperament. And then suddenly you’re in a new tonal world you’ve literally never experienced before (because it’s sitting comfortably BETWEEN all the notes on your keyboard). And, it’s hard to understand how these different temperaments and divisions of the tone are derived and utilized without having learned about them. This piece however I found incredibly beautiful and approachable. I’m not even going to attempt to read this score for notes, but I *believe* my ear picked out many “color notes” throughout the chords of the piece, calculated dissonances that sone other microtonal works shy away from, perhaps out of a belief that the tuning already feels dissonant to an unfamiliar ear and extra dissonance would sound completely aharmonic. However I found these colored chords to actually feel really familiar and, in many cases “right” in the piece (perhaps because even these “jazz chords” are more in tune with greater divisions of the tone?), and it actually made the microtones more accessible to me, surprisingly. This piece sounded like the amorphous origins of the universe convalescing slowly into matter, and then into life. The use of fragmented lyrics presented as simple sounds notated in IPA further enforced this idea of the creation of order from chaos. And a side note, I’m very picky about my organs, there are only so many organs and so many stops that I can stand to listen to, but this organ’s timbres were absolutely unreal, otherworldly and strangely gorgeous!!!! All in all I’m in love with this piece and will certainly be listening to it quite a bit!!! And maybe after a dozen or so listening I’ll be comfortable enough to try more microtonality 😂
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you so so much for your thoughtful comments! I have been schooling my ear for a good 15 years now, after a whole adult life performing as a classically trained musician - and I find this journey just becomes more and more interesting. No doubt the perception of harmonicity is a complex theme, but can be also very intuitive, as you seem to be experiencing. There are many resources for microtonality online, even very active Facebook groups with extremely qualified people exchanging their knowledge there. Maybe something for you? Good journey! :-) Best, Fabio
@AndromedaCripps5 ай бұрын
@@Fabio_Costa_Music Thanks for the advice and insights!! And again, fantastic piece, bravo!! 😄
@qwertyfinger5 ай бұрын
lovely piece, kinda toes the line between ethereal and sci-fi in a really interesting way.
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you for listening and the nice feedback! 🙂
@andrewkahler63995 ай бұрын
Woah where'd you find the score?? This is the only thing on the internet I can find that gives the full score of even one movement
@Ben-hq8xk5 ай бұрын
This is amazing. Thank you
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Many many thanks for the feedback, really appreciated! :-)
@portmantonal5 ай бұрын
Wow, this is unbelievable! I think I need to study 31 ET...
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you!! Well, there is also 17, 19, 22... Many fantastic tuning systems out there! :-)
@lerippletoe68935 ай бұрын
This is incredible
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Many thanks indeed!! 😀
@kire69935 ай бұрын
Breathtaking piece 😯
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you so very much for the nice feedback! :-)
@philippe.rodriguez5 ай бұрын
Great composition!
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you a lot, I appreciate your feedback! :-)
@shamikmazumder28355 ай бұрын
i ended up being here and listening to this song because of Murakami and Sumire
@NScida5 ай бұрын
Wow I mean this is amazing to listen to not just intellectually but emotionally and the performance is just brilliant
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you! Yes, I was really lucky to have such wonderful interpreters.. :-)
@igordrm5 ай бұрын
Very original. Are you brazilian?
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you! And yes, I am! 😀 You too?
@igordrm5 ай бұрын
@@Fabio_Costa_Music Sim!
@igordrm5 ай бұрын
So interesting. I've been wanting to listen to something like this for a while, as I've been getting familiar to to microtonal possibilities (thanks to Jacob Collier). I do have a question though, do you think that we can see already a way to create a "theory of harmony" of exquisite temperaments? Should we approach it taking on account the traditional harmonic functions of the common practice? Great work, first of yours that I hear and I'm just going to the next!
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for tuning in and sharing your thoughts! Well, there is a lot of theoretical work done in microtonality. Maybe you want to look up this Facebook group? facebook.com/groups/497105067092502/?ref=share Yours might be a very interesting question to discuss there!
@columbus8myhw5 ай бұрын
I heard there was a secret chord
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Hahaha, hopefully it pleased Him :-)
@giuseppeagresta14255 ай бұрын
Majestic Beautiful to see this temperament used masterfully, it can be so colourful :)
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot! Yes, 31 approximates so many intervals of the overtone series so well, the possibilities are endless!!
@TheSmegPod5 ай бұрын
something kind of unsettling about this musically it kinda sounds like I'm hearing something that was not meant to be heard gives me the mental image of coming face to face with the true form of God or some eldritch being
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Wow, I'll take it as a good thing! :-) This is all harmonic series really, so in a way, just (relatively) simple physics... :-) Thanks for listening!
@LucBoeren5 ай бұрын
Wow, fascinating
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@cgcomposer_5 ай бұрын
Can we talk about how genuinely astounding the chord at 5:58 is?
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thanks for listening! Yeah, it's the "ugly" chord of the piece, because it is a non-harmonic construct with 2 chains of fifths a neutral 3rd apart, which alternate and clash, symbolizing conflict, war etc. :-)
@MultiWatermelonman5 ай бұрын
Gênio. Vc sabe disso. Parabéns, Fábio Abraço do Joel
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Obrigado meu querido! Enorme abraço!
@VerticalCalzone5 ай бұрын
5:05 is one of the most beautiful sonorities I have ever heard. That detuned A over the Eb looks so similar to the familiar lydian sound in 12tet, yet the slight change in how it's tuned (and of course, the way it's orchestrated) make it sound like something completely new, while miraculously avoiding the "unpleasant" reaction we often get when encountering something unknown
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much! Great to hear it! The Av is the 11th overtone from Eb, with a little error of some -10 cent, one of those still mostly unknown consonances of music...! :-)
@MarkHoemmen5 ай бұрын
this is awesome
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Thank you! If you'd like, check out Juhani's gorgeous Violin Sonata and perhaps my Cortège, both in 22-edo! :-)
@JohnLeonardMusic5 ай бұрын
Absolutely visionary work as always. These harmonies are just unreal
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Oh thank you so much! Super rewarding to read your feedback! :-)
@MatthewMuhammad5 ай бұрын
This reminds me of music from the future.
@camcalenhunter80195 ай бұрын
Did not expect this from MG....Brazil is an amazing country...nicely done!
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
The orchestra is top notch and they now have a great hall too
@thomaskoner12875 ай бұрын
beautiful
@Fabio_Costa_Music5 ай бұрын
Many thanks indeed! Knowing that this piece is by no means an easy one! ;-)
@patconroy18745 ай бұрын
Pleasant tones are a social construct or something