🤔 "Good music is no coincidence." 😀 (Facade wisdom Music House Hogrebe, Aachen)
Approach
Giving space to several simultaneous melody lines.
Approach via several simultaneous tunes
Alex Ruis experiences equality and freedom when listening to free contrapuntal music. Dictation in imitative music subordination through copying behavior. Followership, sometimes suppression in homophonic music.
Therefore, to counteract feelings of unimportance and other psychical disharmony, Alex Ruis builds his music primarily on stylish simultaneous tunes. Which, incidentally, are not intended to imitate each other. Different tunes express equally different attitudes, opinions, moods, etcetera.
To be clear, he does not consider otherwise composed music to be wrong. But that music describes a reality less desired by him. His music is meant to be complementary, enriching and beneficial. Offering a non-prescriptive opening to another world. Nor is the method of composition a matter of principle, rather a different-than-usual approach.
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Subordinated voices
Still, lower and especially middle voices in music often are made less important by composers. The middle tunes usually are not less important than the upper or lower tune. Their importance may be different than that of the other tunes, but they create the music together. Which is the core concept of syntunes. In the minds of many people similar values stand.
Syntunes
Syntunes are pieces of music that largely consist of stylish simultaneously performed tunes or melodies. These are attuned to each other in such a way that they chord together and thus form the whole harmony. You should avoid accompaniment and mutual imitation between the tunes. Incidentally, a piece of music can more or less meet these conditions. Some pieces of his EP Simple Syntunes are quite free in this regard.
Method
In his method of composing, he is "consciously guided by his subconscious." Emotionally, he lets the first material impose itself on him. Instead of looking for an accompaniment to it, he looks for equivalent material (which often also forces itself upon him) and forges it into a whole in a certain form with a certain sound. His method thus consists of an alternation of feeling and thinking.
