Yeats Marc: First Amorphic Hymn
for organ (ORG)
Yeats Marc: First Amorphic Hymn
for organ (ORG)
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Amorphic Hymns are my compositions for organ that explore the idea of composed resonance—sound shaped as much by memory and imagination as by musical material itself. They are inspired by distant recollections of hearing church music and congregational singing from outside church buildings, sometimes from a distance, as enthusiastic but unsteady renditions carried and transformed through the air by shifting weather conditions.
These phenomena and experiences fractured and stretched the sound, blurring melodic and harmonic outlines until only echoes of the original hymns remained. Hence the new compositions’ amorphic nature—having lost their ordered, functional and familiar musical forms to adopt wandering, unpredictable structures. In these pieces, I seek to capture that sense of distortion and displacement, creating music that feels at once familiar and remote—a spectral memory of hymns reshaped through time, weather and listening from afar.
About Score to Audio Video
I’m posting score to audio videos of all my organ pieces as I publish them. Although lacking human warmth, colouristic diversity and depth, the MIDI organ sound I have at my disposal (pipe organ, one colour, no doubling) are kinder to the composer (and instrument) than many other MIDI sounds. I believe that listening to one of these videos does give a fair idea of the potential for the piece if given the full treatment by a consummate artist employing the idiosyncrasies and range of their instrument, and may provoke a deeper exploration of the music.
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- Yeats Marc: First Amorphic Hymn