not even love

> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks. Not Even Love is a big piece with a ton of stuff going on.
> There's lots of the 20-tet guitar and lots of elaborate tuning and
> rhythm collisions, but they're more the sort of thing that's better
> analyzed after the fact as opposed to the sort of thing that arises
> from a neat formal (tuning) scheme.
>
> The approach I usually take has little to do with acoustics and even
> less to do with extended tonal or serial practices.
>
> When I walk the woods this time of year I never fail to marvel at the
> way the landscape of leafless trees and their backdrop of heavy
> winter skies move me. What I often try to do is capture something of
> these sorts of densities... ones where hearing or seeing or knowing
> every detail is somewhat irrelevant, but the details themselves are
> not.

What struck me most was the opening. It was like raw pain. That's where
I drew the analogy to Schoenberg, in his hyper-expressionist pieces.
Perhaps it was a lame analogy. Though you mentioned Pelleas, and I love
that piece, for similar reasons.

In any case, there was something there with the juxtaposition of the
simple, non-gliss-able piano part in the background, and the weeping
expressive guitar solo in the foreground. There was a too-much-ness about
it that I liked. Funny, this was the section that seemed the least
"microtonal", but anyway. .