Bone Alphabet - Brian Ferneyhough

[jsanthony11]

the score may look impressive but this sounds like shit . i could take an empty score sheet and fill it full of rythmic figures that dont really exist too. beats dont divide evenly into random numbers

[mickyj300x]

I find it funny that whatever Ferneyhough writes is generally considered to be one of the most difficult pieces in it's genre. Great performance.

[fremsley001]

"As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting."

Brian Ferneyhough, Californian Journal of Pseudo-Intellectual Posturing, vol 54, pp1-27 (1994)

[CoreOgg]

Ferneyhough is "alot miss and seldom hit"? but there is so much hit in this piece, no?

[CaseyCangelosi]

totally bad-ass, y'all playing this piece are awesome

[xxxxcensoredxxx]

mmmmm, tasteful...........

[beaverteeth92]

My god.  I saw two pages to the score for this, and my head nearly exploded.

[coldanke]

Aah! This is LOUD. Too loud for me! It almost sounds like an amplified Xenakis piece.

I heard Schick perform it. It sounded so gentle, that time...

[herma57]

the other recordings I've heard of this piece, works best when the piece is more subdued, more gentle, and threadbare, to me it becomes more poetic then, this is my interpretation, if you got your own OK;I've been studying the piece since it was written;

[sonicpsychiatry]

It's just not a good percussion piece. James Dillon's East 11st blows this piece out of the water. Ferney is a lot miss and seldom hit.

[herma57]

toooo loud, Ma Che OOOOOOOOOOOO, it's suppose to be a gentle peace piece.

[datramte]

My exact reaction!

[denvermarathon]

Tell me what's gentle about five "f's"