I listened to “Music for a short film,” “Dream,” and about half of “One.”
I don’t want music to be relaxing. I want it to go somewhere and take me with it. I also don’t much care for the ‘tronic sound or music made from sampling, and I very much prefer music to be played on real (= traditional) instruments. All my life, from young childhood, I’ve been a classical music lover.
For that reason I don’t usually enjoy listening to music of the general sort I hear in those three selections. Also, because of my synesthesia, I see music with those long, sustained chords as broad, flat planes of color with little contour. Imagine translucent paint in muted colors—slate blue, sage green, dusky rose pink—applied to sheets of glass in extremely long and almost smooth, featureless horizontal strokes with a large paint roller instead of brushstrokes rendering line and form in numerous colors. A little indistinct motion is going on behind the glass, not clearly seen. That is how it sounds to me.
Nonetheless, I hear artistry here, structure, imagination, and even humor. Does it make sense for me to say that if I liked music of this sort, I think I would like this?
I see from your MySpace bio that you are a serious musician with impressive credentials—New England Conservatory, Juilliard—and a degree in viola performance. One thing this tells me is that you know what you are doing and that my musical knowledge falls short of what it would take to be a truly appreciative audience for your work, so all I can speak of with assurance is my own taste. Can we hear any of your more classical-sounding music?