Truax: "Riverrun"

Barry Truax: "Riverrun" (1986) "Riverrun" was commissioned by the Music Section of the Biennale di Venezia with the financial assistance of the Canada Council. It was awarded the Magisterium at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France, in 1991.

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[khantarya]

Simply sensational,your upload! in fact,rare works of composers,like these canadian

genius,Truax,are posting,here! So,thank you,for the very good sense of choice,and, I

beg you: Please,don´t stop your fabulous work! Bravo! Accept my greetings!

[NewMusicXX]

@khantarya Thank you very much! So glad you're enjoying the uploads!

[copacolegial]

NewMusicXX, best fuckin channel in YouTube, greetings from Mexico

[KDMAnderson]

This piece changed my life, for real.

[izumski]

WONDERFULLLLLZZZZZZZ!!!!!! its one of favorite channel... like gargarin

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@DCioccoloni And anyway no, I begun studying a year ago, so i gladly accept pieces of advice about books to read :D

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@DCioccoloni Don't get me wrong, I am not defending the piece saying it's generally considered a masterpiece (if I was then I should be listening to lady gaga), nor saying you are saying nonsense, I'm just saying I THINK it is and you are the only one complaining, and I think the problem here is the audio quality! I have heard a better recording b4 and I didn't notice low quality of the sounds! Doesn't anyway yt ruin audio files? All of the music I downloaded for trash cds for my car are lame :/

[DCioccoloni]

@GiovanniTancrediChan Also, the compression isn't due to youtube's encoding (i'm an audio engineer, i can tell the difference), in fact the compression here is so bad that if this was a recording of a piano many notes would be indistinguishable one from the other even though they are separated by many degrees (so you can't blame yt, there's some pretty good sounding pianos on here, it clearly doesnt mess up this bad). The real problem with yt is the comment limit, making me reply in 2 comments!

[DCioccoloni]

@GiovanniTancrediChan If you think that making a score accessible to others is not necessary I can only presume you have never come across Alvise Vidolin's writings on the lack of sustainability in electroacoustic music. If the only way you have to defend your position that this track is a masterpiece is that many other people say so, I am unimpressed. If I go to a Beatles video I will find thousands of people saying that it's the greatest music ever written, does that mean they are right?

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@DCioccoloni It's not writing a score itself, it's making it readable and avaible for others, which is not really necessary and might take a lot of time. And I would understand your point of view if you weren't the only one complaining about the quality of the grains in a piece generally considered a masterpiece and - imo - very beautiful, which is - I think - far from the original since youtube manages to ruin every single audio file :\

[DCioccoloni]

@GiovanniTancrediChan I don't see what's so strange about always writing a score, and also if the composer doesn't have the patience to work on his music properly I don't see why I should have the patience to listen to it properly. This isn't some rock musician we're talking about, a certain degree of excellence is expected form classical composers, and excellence is not achieved by cutting corners, this is not the level one would expect from a composer who wants to be taken seriously.

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@DCioccoloni Lol but Stockhausen used cheats for infinite patience, e.g. he ALWAYS wrote the fucking score :S I don't blame other people for not being as patient as he was XD

[amic43]

For me the essence of music has always been and will always be sound. Keeping this in mind Riverrun has been the most extreme musical experience I ever heard in my life.

Congratulations.

It is aan amazing piece of real music. A masterpiece.

Albert Michels

Belgium