Robert Carl - Sentient Serenade
Robert Carl - Sentient Serenade
The sparse serenade sounds more intellectual than natural, a literal distillation of the organic world through a mathematical lens.
Robert Carl's Sentient Serenade is a fresh take on how natural sounds inspire new creations of art. Carl conceived of the piece after viewing a spectrogram of natural sounds. Using an indirect source for musical material is an interesting concept, which can be heard throughout the work. The sparse serenade sounds more intellectual than natural, a literal distillation of the organic world through a mathematical lens. Carl has a strong sense of traditional rhetoric in his music, which creates a notable sense of form and focus when repeating short motives.
Performed and recorded by the Four Corners Ensemble (4CE), Sentient Serenade demands a high level of focus for the players. While sounding technically easy, the piece is exposed in orchestration, and relies primarily on the perfect execution of timbral effects on all the instruments. Fortunately, the members of 4CE do a beautiful job with the serenade, making sense and music out of Carl's rhetorical fragments.
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