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Post-Serotonia

by Maxwell Franko

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This piece is based on the sounds and structures found in modern rock and post-rock music. While listening to bands like Highly Suspect, Deftone, and Badflower, I became interested in the patterns I was seeing in their songs – the ways they used distortion, rapidly pivoting between heavy and light textures and their formulaic song structure. Adding to this, post-rock bands like This Will Destroy You, Sigur Rós, and Explosions in The Sky, instead focus on texture and sounds of distortion. As I listen to both at the same time, I became increasingly aware of how they compare. What’s common or not between the two?

In this piece, I am combining both approaches – a texture and distortion- focused piece that retains the song structure of traditional rock bands. Post-Seratonia is a reverse of rock song structure – opening with a broad-stroke jam, followed by a locked-in groove section, and ending with a group solo. I’ve heard post-rock as a way of taking a compositional approach to rock band instrumentation. And in some ways, I like to think of this piece as a post-rock approach to classical instrumentation.

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released August 18, 2022
Recorded by the Unheard-of Ensemble

Ford Fourqurean, clarinet
Matheus Souza, violin
Iva Casian-Lakoš, cello
Daniel Anastasio, piano

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Maxwell Franko Austin, Texas

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