Peter Gregson: Touch
) | Label: SONO LUMINUS Catalog: DSL-92191 Format: ‘Touch’ follows on from my previous album, Lights in the Sky. It comprises eight tracks for analogue synthesizer, cello, piano, and string orchestra. + Where Lights in the Sky was saturated, sonically intense, almost ‘spoilt brat’-ish sound, Touch has a more refined palette of sounds. + Composers are often asked what their music is about, especially with instrumental music such as this. + To me, it sort of defeats the purpose and joy of listening to music. + How do we interpret the emotion and meaning of music when we aren’t hand held through listening, or guided by a lyric? + Just because music is slow, doesn’t mean that it is sad; just because it is fast, doesn’t make it happy. + The same goes for tonality: major music isn’t intrinsically happy, minor music isn’t exclusively sad. + Yes, these can be devices for eliciting an emotional response, but they are not in and of themselves complete. + For me, this is the magic of music. + It has many lives and many meanings, none of them right and none of them wrong. Price: $35.98 |