Plenum's Music

[Plenum]

I like your music, Plenum. Very centering. Can you suggest some music with a similar sound? I am also interested in what some of your favorite musical pieces are (I am a fan of classical music).

can't really answer the first part of that; but I can give the second part of that a bit of a go!.

I've been listening to Brahms First Piano Concerto (op 15), the last 3 weeks. Just all different types of performances, and even a student-teacher arrangement for 2 pianos, which is used for rehearsals etc.

When I'm not indulging in repetitive listenings, my other all time favourite pieces would include:

* Goldberg Variations (by Mr Bach of course)
* Beethoven's Middle Symphonies - 5, 6, and 7 form a very satisfying set
* Well Tempered Klavier - my all time favourite single piece of music (both books 1 and 2, although book 1 is like a clear distillation of Ra; very pure and undistorted)

I guess those are not the most adventurous of choices, but Bach and Beethoven sort of stand alone at the summit of music. They both somehow managed to tap a musical stream of spirituality that they converted into Art; Bach being the more pristine, ordered, and eternal; Beethoven plumbing the depths of emotion and the human journey.

it's not that I don't listen to other things; but it's just that when you find the 'best', it ends up being things that you devote a greater proportion of your time and attention to.

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ps, and even though I haven't composed in a while, I eventually settled on a very basic method for generating my music. It consisted of 3 independent musical lines ('voices'), which somehow mirrored the constant dynamic interplay of the mind, the body, and the spirit.