Extended Techniques Explained in 10 Minutes

"Enriching human culture with new worlds of sensation, thought, and feeling." Yes!

Very informative video (and well-edited, too - looks great!). Your point towards the end really resonated with me as well, as someone who has grown less and less interested in listening to sound-for-sound’s-sake kind of music, but specifically in the contemp classical music world. The part where about those who don’t abuse this already-exhausted repertoire of ext techs are considered naïve is a sharp point. Sometimes I feel like I’m under-qualified to make critiques of this part of contemp music when I say things like, how I feel its approach has made this music and community increasingly detached from the rest of reality, where we’ve shifted our priorities to developing this completely alien language with little to no intention of engaging with outsiders - probably because I’d be considered “naïve” by a lot of folks who run the institutions of this music. I’m glad that a composer vet like yourself shares at least some of these sentiments and concerns

Your closing statement in this video is a valuable one to consider in music production.

Thank you for this video! I like this format of a short overview of the history and nuances of a term. Very interesting and immediately helpful.

Really love your videos, thanks for sharing.

Amazing presentation, as always!

Love seeing your uploads! Hope you’re doing well

Great video! Love the detailed examples.

Aquest video és extraordinari. Et done la enhorabona de part d'un jove estudiant de compossició a l'est de la peninsula ibèrica, a València. Moltes gràcies.

Bravo! Beautiful words towards the end!

Thanks, love this video, lots of interesting topics - and by the way, all those books behind you look so interesting, would you be interested in doing a shelf tour ?

Would you consider breaking down Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz? The opening motif is very interesting and I'd love to see an analysis. I know a lot of people get lost listening to the album and I think an explaination would be worthwhile. Love your videos Samuel.

Thanks for the video

Very informative, very usefull, thank you for this video, good reserch job man!!!

Wow! Thanks!

Thank you for the video, Samuel! I was expecting the mention of Helmut. I would personally love an 'extended' video on his work/thought :)

Great video, Samuel I was thinking about the Sequenza for Oboe before you mentioned, was pleasantly surprised when you did. I attended a lecture last year here in Rio held by a French researcher who interviewed Heinz Holliger about the Sequenza VII, and how it was composed during a series of correspondences between Holliger and Berio, on which Holliger sent Berio several descriptions of new kinds of sounds possible for the oboe, as well as the way to notate them, and that Berio based the piece on this collaboration between composer and performer.

Very educational..

Love your videos. I think when many people think about their favorite pieces of music the main thing in their mind is a kind of mood-sphere (stimmung-kreis) that can be immediately sensed as belonging to the work. I wonder if that is also a feature of formalist and conceptual works too.

yes!