Thank you very much for listening and your encouragement, William.
I like your picturing. What kind of films are you doing?

This third Vibraphon part is actually my first experiment with microtonality. First I had a chromatic version but was disappointed by the non-exciting and very harmless dissonances. Then I started to tune my samples in quarter- and eighthtones which I find very exciting now! I hope to make some orchestral microtonal experiments soon. Most microtonal music I know is just badly tuned tonal music. But in this application as increased dissonance inside chords I really like it.
(While speaking of pictures: I have the imagination of a melting vibraphon in this piece...)

Thanks again,
- Mathis

Microtonalities are extremely interesting to me also. I realized a while ago one of my problems with atonal music is not dissonance, but chromatic dissonance. It is too limited in its effect. Most of it merely contradicts tonality. But microtonality is completely different and creates a new kind of harmony.

completely agreed! [:D]

I just wanted to complete the posting of this Tango Suite. (Finally I got a grip on my Bandoneon player!)
Last time I just posted the Lento which is the second part of this trilogy. All three pieces are somehow related to Tango, but you won´t find some "real" argentinian Tango here. Even the "Tango" is not really a Tango, it´s actually more Bach arranged to some kind of Tango idiom.

Please, whoever listens to it, do comment. I see in my web servers statistics that these pieces are quite often downloaded, so please share your thoughts.
(On northernsounds forum it´s crazy. I posted once the oboe piece there and it was downloaded more than 450 times...)
All pieces are encoded to 192kps and altogether about 13MB. Lento has a new and much much better mix.

Tango Suite 2004
www.audionomio.de/mp3/Waiting_for_the_Tango_mix2.mp3
www.audionomio.de/mp3/Lento_mix2.mp3
www.audionomio.de/mp3/Tango_mix2.mp3

Have fun!
Bests,
- Mathis

@mathis said:

(On northernsounds forum it´s crazy. I posted once the oboe piece there and it was downloaded more than 450 times...)- Mathis

Thats beacause your'e a star Mathis. [[;)]]

Just listened to all three parts. Highly unusual to hear this type of music from my point of view anyway. Great fun stuff and very skilled writing too. I particularly liked Tango mix2. I see what you mean with the reference to Bach.
When the Lento part started, I thought Good Lord, whats all this? But after a short while, I found it to be quite hypnotic and I enjoyed that too.
Waiting for the Tango I listened to last, and I liked this best of all personally. Who's playing the Spanish Guitar? I love all the noises in the background and the end of this piece is a triumph.

Your'e a weird person alright Mathis, but you have a great skill in writing interesting and thought provoking musical pieces. No one could accuse you of being commercial.

Very enjoyable stuff! [:D]

Bests

PR

Mathis, I just can't download this now, though I want to. Do you have a CD out? I'll trade you for mine! You are doing some very sophisticated and original work. I think your approach of using traditional elements in a completely non-traditional way is fascinating.

Thank you Paul!

(It´s me playing guitar.)

William, I would enjoy trading CD´s! Also videos. I have a DVD to send you.
I PM you my adress.

I made a pop-style remix of Lento which at the same time resulted in a crossover with flamenco.
Cold anybody give it a listen and tell me if I ran into the trap of banality?

www.audionomio.de/mp3/LentoRemix_Mix3.mp3 (6mb)

Anyone who asks if he fell into the "trap of banality" probably didn't. The ones who do NEVER ask.

But this piece is wild! You are insane, Mathis - in a good way. It is like the others. Makes me react "Where did THIS come from?" Very original, bizarre. I especially like the way you are combining these radically different elements.

At the entrance of the more normal acoustic instruments it made me wish you would do a mix that had all normal instruments playing those same rhythms at the beginning. Just to see what it would sound like as if played with a normal orchestra. Though obviously you're using the contrast between the electronic sounds and acoustic deliberately.

(By the way it sounded like you were able to hire that same hobo. Man, that guy is great! Is he still playing for just whiskey rations?)

Hey, Bill, very much appreciated! Maybe I´ll add this question now to every piece I post, just to be on the safe side... [:D]

The oboe is in fact GPO, amazing, isn´t it? I didn´t use VSL because I wanted to have a vibrato oboe. But there´s a reason why it is mixed so much to the background....
And, b.t.w, the guitar playing in this piece isn´t me. I´d love to be able to play flamenco though.

The idea with the acoustic instruments playing the rhythms, I like it. Probably I won´t change this piece, but it sounds as a great idea for the next piece in that style. Thanks!

Your Cds are almost on their way.