SNOWFORMS - R. Murray Schafer

Elektra Women's Choir

Translation/Text:
The text consists of inuit words for various kinds of snow : apingaut , first snowfall; mauyk, soft snow; akelrorak , drifting snow ; pokaktok , snow like salt.

More information and score: http://www.elektra.ca/thirtypicks/snowforms.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• SNOWFORMS
• R.
• Murray
• Schafer
• Elektra
• Women's
• Choir
• dehmussulini

[elektrawomenschoir]

We love that this piece is being sung by so many people!

[sms012093]

I sang this with my choir. It was great.

[aldayguerra]

@queencolondarkwing ... impressive... i thought this woulf be made on computer... if you can sing this ya are divas ;)

[aldayguerra]

this is incredible, one of the best studies on sound i've ever heard... but im looking for schizophonic studies that R. Murray Schafer did... anyone knows about them??

[Topographic0ceans]

@chri4481 maybe you're only a nerd over formal music. listen to the album Obscura by Gorguts. That's beauty

[samanshlm]

@chri4481

how on earth is this dissonant??????????????????

man not everything has to be a major or minor chord all the goddamn time....

This is absolutely gorgeous

[deplanetiser]

@chri4481 I find personally, that this piece is strangely beautiful.. haunting yet enchanting... Just like ice, like snow forming..

[vikingmunchkin]

We sang this following the graphic score. Man it was hard, but soooo worth it in the end! Amazing piece!

[bshark88]

@chri4481 well you're not a very good music nerd, are you? Or else you'd at least be able to appreciate this piece.

[chri4481]

idk how people find it beautiful, I'm a music nerd. My sister is too, and she was creeped out by it. My cat heard us play, he hissed at it with his ears back and ran in terror... how is something so dissonant, beautiful?