#String quartet

[nobeerreviews]

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

-- Laurie Colwin

(tomatoes on the streets of Ribeauvillé, France)

[glassesfreekjr]

FOR REAL THIS TIME

The King Salmonid who all Fish Sticks aspire to be. The first Griller to surpass their mortal coils and ascend to a state far more... eldritch. A grotesque autonomous collective and yet a ruler in its own right. The aquatic roi des rats of the whirlpool's roil, whose name shall not be uttered. The worlds worst maypole by far, 0/10.

And yet there are sea creatures far worse, and far scarier, out in the unknown depths... beyond the splendour of the tempest; the sandbank’s luring smile. Encircled by flopping hordes of mindless and amorphous dancers, lulled amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

Waiting for their moment.

(Rough concept art courtesy of @zenders-art)

[postpunkindustrial]

Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet – Dracula 2xLP

Halloween Season: Vampire Soundtracks

[gasparodasalo]

Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) - Sonata for Strings in G-Major, GWV 212, II. Allegro. Performed by L'Ensemble des Idées heureuses on period instruments.

[nofatclips]

The Wolf by Jherek Bischoff with the SCRAPE Quartet, live for Second Inversion

[bioluminescencia]

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons candlelight concert date night

The Chapel at Griffith College Cork

[lesser-known-composers]

Arnold Mendelssohn (1855-1933) - String Quartet No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: II. Andante con moto ·

Reinhold Quartett

[wolftheghost]

me: time for some classical music

*puts this on*

[higherfriends]

First string quartet out of a series I’m currently writing. Reflecting on life seasons, the nature of existence and love. 🎻🥀

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

SHUT UP.

You’re telling me that Vitamin String Quartet (who has already had music featured on Bridgerton) has a version of “Yellow”?!?!

If this or another orchestral cover is not in part 2, I’m going to need the most epic edit to this.

[eawai-osc]

You can listen to my previous cover arrangements here: #my covers

[cinnamonbunpuff]

how a song changed my year.

achilles, achilles, achilles come down, won't you get up off, get up off the roof?

it's officially been one year since i first heard this song. it's kinda crazy how much can happen in that time, in reality and in mentality.

i still remember stumbling upon it. i'm sure i've seen it on my recommended in the past but this was the first time i really listened to it. it was late and i was sat on my bed, recovering from a cold. stressed over my barely-started application for some of the UC schools i never saw myself going to. i paused to take a little peruse through youtube, where i saw this performance. based on the song of achilles (a familiar name), and choreographed to achilles come down (an unfamiliar title).

i was drawn immediately in. not just by the smooth flow of the dancers portraying their characters, but by the power of the lyrics and how it affected what i was seeing of achilles, patroclus, and briseis.

and so i decided to look up the actual song and its lyrics, to see what they really were. and they were beautiful.

today of all days, see, how the most dangerous thing is to love,

this song, all seven minutes and two seconds of it, has seen me through so many monumental changes in my life. from growing positively mentally, to graduating high school and starting uni, to familial tensions.

how you will heal and you'll rise above, crowned by an overture bold and beyond,

it's honestly a wonder how i haven't grown bored or tired of it yet. and i think that's because every time i sit and really listen to it, there's always something new i'm discovering or interpreting, whether that be compositionally or lyrically.

to start, it was realising that the only instruments are strings - definitely a cello, and in all most likely a string quartet. as a violinist myself, i love hearing any use of strings in modern songs. having a whole song relying on the softness and dynamics of them though? that's gonna get me every time. how almost the entirety of the song is underlaid with the eighth notes of the cello, and throughout the verses the intermittence of the higher strings.

as i grew familiar with achilles come down, i discovered the power that all the lyrics held. there were a select few that drew my attention, from either how poetic they sounded, to how they seemed to mirror an aspect of my life that i didn't know could be put into words.

loathe the way they light candles in rome, but love the sweet air of the votives,

then there were the sections of spoken french. i thought that the addition of a second language in the song really added to it as a whole, but upon looking up (and attempting to translate what i could), i found that they added another level of melancholy. because what better way is there to make the song more emotional than including snippets of french philosophy about the value of life?

qu'on appelle une raison de vivre, est un même temps une excellent raison de mourir

through this year, i've found myself coming up with scenarios in my head, with this song playing in the background. mostly it's been with characters of my current hyperfixations, but i've found myself in these situations as well. it's definitely a reflection of who i see myself to be, but i hope it's also an envisioning to who i hope to be.

thank you to achilles come down for finding its way into my life. thank you for the past year, and i hope the next is just as exciting.

throw yourself into the unknown, with a pace and fury defiant

[glassesfreekjr]

The King Salmonid who all Fish Sticks aspire to be. The first Griller to surpass their mortal coils and ascend to a state far more... eldritch. A grotesque autonomous collective and yet a ruler in its own right. The aquatic rattenkönig of the whirlpools roil, whose name shall not be uttered. The worlds worst maypole by far, 0/10.

And yet there are creatures far worse, and far hairier, out in the unknown... waiting for their moment.

(Rough sketch courtesy of @zenders-art)

EDIT: The REAL, unabridged version is called "Rattenkönig Roulette" and will be posted tomorrow (+ additional sketches!) at the conclusion of this Splatfest.

[postpunkindustrial]

Kronos Quartet - Dracula

Hallownn Season: Vampire Soundtracks

[gasparodasalo]

Johann Georg Albrechtsberger (1736-1809) - Sonata (pro festo Paschalis) for Strings in C-Major, II. Fuga. Allegro moderato. Performed by Authentic Quartet on period instruments.

[thesobsister]

Kronos Quartet, "The Funky Chicken"

The leadoff cut from their debut album. Which I'd never even heard of until last Friday. Very good, to start, plus it's the first branches of the musically ecumenical tree that the Kronos crew would grow over the last 50 years.