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St Celfer: Serenade No Cry

from eleven tracks by St Celfer and Tom Moody

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Tom Moody: "Serenade" has a pretty, soprano sax or oboe-like run of notes that repeats. I like having some kind of melody or rhythm to anchor the 'noise' elements (as I guess you know). The meat of the piece is the variety and ingenuity of these glitched-out elements but the melody acts as a pleasant bed for this activity.

The plaintive "soprano sax' riff, recurring throughout the song, consists of a note, a triplet, the triplet inverted, and a higher note. (A conservatory musician might care which notes of the scale they are.) If you were a soundtrack composer this would be audio gold. I could imagine a nature documentary of a cheetah running across the veldt, along the top of a ridge, in silhouette, in slow-mo. The music says "he is the last of his kind, he is a beautiful animal, we are sad."

But in your tune it's just one element (a cog) interacting with other cogs, some of which also have melodic content, but not as foregrounded. Different timbres, different moods, possibly time signatures -- at times it reminds me of Charles Ives with several ensembles playing simultaneously, and motifs fade in and out of our attention. But the "sax' glues it together, gives it direction, keeps my ear engaged.

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from eleven tracks, released December 13, 2020

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St Celfer and Tom Moody Houston, Texas

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