Percussion Study IV ('Exoskeleton") for viola alla chitarra

[BedHeadWildSexHair]

It's very different. It sounds very layered and complex.

I could never do it in a million years and I'm not sure how successful a technique this will be but it's interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[NotWinter]

honestly its errr Random, but i sort of like it. Its not very happy, is it?

[AECSRQ]

imagine the movie if this were its soundtrack!!

[jimmies31]

@AECSRQ Haha. I see...a lot of creeping around...maybe punctuated by bits of scampering? And a few epiphanies.

OH wow ok...there was certainly a climactic fight scene near the end there. Probably between Charlie Daniels and the devil.

[John11inch]

Just the right amount of abuse a viola should receive.

Viola joke aside, very good work and performance. I like it quite a bit. The compositional ideology reminds me quite a bit of Barrett's, yet the music could not possibly be more different (in the spectrum of this type of music, of course). The absence of your name among the higher echelons of composers (being familiar with a fairly large amount of your work) is conspicuous.

[iRock166]

im sorry but my opinion on this is not the way i would have liked to play my viola but it was cool

[poupoule22]

it's very... non-standard... I mean I found it very difficult to hear, it is the kind of music where we have to be very receptive

[klo1777]

Here it is a great composer, great musician! Congrats!

[jamesvla]

I would like to play the peace.. but I don't have this kind of pizz tech and i don't want to brake strings

[fercury]

Genial. Insite puro. Ainda vou comprar uma viola pra tocar essa obra.

[rpaskin]

The interesting and at the same time most challenging thing about this work is that it requires an abstraction from what one "expects" music to be like. It's an interesting paradox, that at the same time it breaks and prevents the emotional response people are used to giving to music, it allows for what is arguably an even more intense emotional response (also supplemented by an intellectual connection)... but only when you go: "Aha! Now I get it!"