From composer and electronic musician Isaac Schankler comes an experimental take on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. As the title says, the bass is a bar late and the melody is a bar early. Sheet music for the experiment can be found here. And some of Schankler’s more serious compositions here.
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hardly worth a listen. sorry i clicked the link.
but i’ll keep trusting your instincts.
doesn’t mean it’s worth a second
or even a complete first listen.
definitely not this one.
I love it!
keep coming back to this. really nice and haunting and disorienting
Beethoven meets Picasso?