I can definitely hear motifs in here, although the timing of those motifs spread out and condense enough to fool listeners not looking for them. ______Some of the melodies are downright beautiful, in a Debussy-ish between-two-scale sort of way that may (gasp) take some mind power to listen to, but rewards you with varying degrees of rhythm speed and energy that show the effort that went into this piece. The only thing that really stuck me was the staccato on the sample set and the squeaking sound at the beginning of the otherwise fine piano sample that makes it sound a lot more "general MIDI" than it really. ________Agreed with LV, this is not an "easy, natural listen"...but it certainly takes you places, in the same way solving a mysterious pattern in statistics does...it definitely qualifies as "emotionally enthusiastic" though not "emotionally normal"...it most certain is musical and intelligent, however.

Would it be on interest to see a midi of a portion of it?

I'd say.. this piece makes as much sense as life.. and in that perspective, it does makes an awful lot of sense, all in all..

"The whole point of asking you to review this piece is to demonstrate what it may be like for someone to listen to your drone pieces. I can assure you that from the standpoint of modern classical music it all makes sense note wise and in organization, melodic and harmonic." This is very interesting indeed. In the end, it turns out that we do understand each other. I will listen more to your music.

You made your point then! As for modplug, it was a comment, yes, but I listened to the piece carefully before commenting and looked through the mod file.

"But I would love to hear from you - what was the intention to write such a piece. Theoretical interest? Something else?" The idea originated as an experiment in quartal and quintal harmony – the harmony of fourths and fifths and the motive was turned into a chord in the first couple measures. Compared to the 12-tone serialism of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, this piece is easy on the ears. (Look them up on wikipedia). If you go to college for music they do not teach you how to write in 19th century Romantic style except as an exercise in an archaic style so you may demonstrate mastery of it and then move on to the future. (The old stuff is important for performers of course.) Back to your question – I compose for myself and it was composed as an exploration of all those ideas I had knocking around in my head but couldn’t make real. Did I try to write something to communicate to anyone/everyone/you? No way. If some appreciate it – as some do – that is great. That is why I put this out there as a module – to share it and because I had not heard anything like it out there in module land. PS – I was never “reviewed” at Mod Plug – I don’t think the site had that ability back then.

If you read the artist's description you will see an explanation of the organization of the piece. Also, if you read the WMR reviews in the lyrics section you will see that although the piece is very divisive some people to actually appreciate it for much the same reasons you do not like it for – interesting, no? The whole point of asking you to review this piece is to demonstrate what it may be like for someone to listen to your drone pieces. I can assure you that from the standpoint of modern classical music it all makes sense note wise and in organization, melodic and harmonic. However, I cannot say it is your fault if you do not understand this as a piece of music.

Did you download it? On line playback is not good. I used a large soundfont on this and it does not sound "bad" (like the module did) - just really bright.

Interesting review, as much as the piece is. And you've really been deep into it, Louigi.