Sunday 24 January 2021

Notation and Musical Symbols



I have been writing concertos, chamber orchestra and for solo instruments with no musical symbols (musical traffic symbols). The strange thing is free jazz, I have become the focus of criticism even for those who make abstract music and compose using graphic notation. I think they are not aware of what they are producing with free jazz or abstract music. You will both produce this type of music and restrict the free expression you produce with medieval musical symbols! This is a pointless approach. 

The root of the problem is to perpetuate the usual without thinking about it and being aware of what it is doing. 

For example, what is wanted to be done with abstract music? Expressing a topic, emotion or thought using sounds without being dependent on free expression and notes. Standard playing techniques and articulations are not used for this. For example, playing by hitting the strings of the piano, hitting the strings with the arshet of the violin, or hitting the board with the bow. Quickly pulling the strings; Many non-standard new techniques are used, such as blowing into it.

There is another purpose of producing music with this method. That is to contribute to the free expression ability of musicians. In spite of this, while defending that musicians contribute to the development of their power of free expression and express the issue freely; On the other hand, what is it, if not absurd, to use musical symbols that express the strict medieval conception of notation?

I do not use musical symbols in my own notations and musical vocalizations, and I continue to not use musical symbols in order not to restrict the free expression skills of the musicians who are or will perform my works.

Understood or not understood by those who consider themselves the directors of the music world; I do not care. My goal is clear and understandable. Still, there is one thing that upsets me. It is because musicians who have been trained for years have difficulty understanding my purpose and demand that I add musical symbols to my compositions. I compare it to slaves, who have been given democratic freedom of expression, to protest and shout that we want a monarchy.

I guess if they had criticized painters like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline and Salvador Dali for not obeying similar traffic signs of classical painting; presumably they would curse critics.

The composer is not a holy person or a saint.  The works of a composer are not scriptures. It should be freely interpreted by musicians. -Avni Erbey

* I would like to leave a funny example. I like the music of Penderecki however I think he has no idea what he did about his notation. The graphic notation already explains the play he thinks. Why musical traffic symbols are there? Let the orchestra and/or maestro discuss and decide how they want to express!





Thursday 14 January 2021

No Dark Matter and No Dark Energy


I don't remember how many times I said there is no dark matter and no dark energy. Because universe does not need those darks. Now they are coming to my words. But the issue is scientist or whoever grew with tales and they are ready to believe tales.

 'dark matter' doesn't exist after all, new research suggests


How did they come to dark matter and dark energy? Red Shift and Big Bang. I know they will understand that universe does not need big bang or big bangs also. From end to end the whole story is angular momentum and huge "plasmic" magnetic fields.

Each galaxy has its own orbit and follow it. But static mind comes with "where is the center of universe?" Universe does not need to have a center. You may understand the galaxies as molecules in the water or in the air. Where is the center of air or water? If you had explained earth magnetic shifts 200 years ago, no one could understand it. If you had explained quantum entanglement to Einstein than he would say "spooky action at a distance"... 

Galaxies are effecting each other. Thus the orbits are changing. Some are getting closer to us while we are getting far; some are getting far while we are getting closer and even some are getting closer to each other. Gravity is not mass efect. Gravity is energy effect. What is that energy? Magnetic force.

However one big question is still open. Where is coming the energy of quarks and leptons? This is my biggest question. There must be a plasmic dimension and interacts with quarks and leptons somehow! Once human can reply and prove it than we can understand the nature of everything much better.

That's all for now!