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Concerto for String Quintet and Orchestra No. 1

A four-movement work for string quintet and orchestra, created entirely through improvisation.

The piece was recorded in 2015 and explores form, tension, density, silence and duration without a written score or predetermined structure.

I’m an independent composer and multi-instrumentalist from Georgia. I’d be genuinely interested to hear how this work reads to listeners interested in contemporary and experimental classical music.

🎧 Listen on Spotify: LINK

Full performance: Youtube Link

The first time I listened back to the third movement of one of my works, it felt almost unsettling.

It offered very little reassurance. Familiar gestures seemed to disappear just before they could resolve. Long stretches of uncertainty, silence, and constantly shifting direction made the experience surprisingly uncomfortable.

Yet every time I returned to it, I found myself becoming more absorbed by that same uneasy world.

Looking back after hearing the finished work, I realized that the feeling didn’t come from any single moment or gesture. The piece had been recorded one layer at a time, each instrument responding only to the ones that already existed. While working, I wasn’t consciously shaping a complete musical landscape—I was simply making the next musical decision.

The piece was never visible all at once. It only existed one decision at a time

Only later did it occur to me that the process had felt almost like dividing a vast musical space into smaller and smaller fragments, until an entirely unfamiliar world had gradually taken shape. Despite the discomfort that world creates, I still find it remarkably difficult to step away from.
It made me wonder…

Why do some of the most uncomfortable musical experiences become the most compelling?

Is it our search for resolution? The unpredictability? Or does discomfort itself create a different kind of emotional gravity?
I’d love to hear how other composers and listeners think about this.
For anyone interested in the context, here’s the third movement that inspired these questions 👇

🎧 YouTube Link

🎧 Spotify Link

The first time I listened back to the third movement of one of my works, it felt almost unsettling.

It offered very little reassurance. Familiar gestures seemed to disappear just before they could resolve. Long stretches of uncertainty, silence, and constantly shifting direction made the experience surprisingly uncomfortable.

Yet every time I returned to it, I found myself becoming more absorbed by that same uneasy world.

Looking back after hearing the finished work, I realized that the feeling didn’t come from any single moment or gesture.
The piece had been recorded one layer at a time, each instrument responding only to the ones that already existed. While working, I wasn’t consciously shaping a complete musical landscape—I was simply making the next musical decision.

The piece was never visible all at once. It only existed one decision at a time.

Only later did it occur to me that the process had felt almost like dividing a vast musical space into smaller and smaller fragments, until an entirely unfamiliar world had gradually taken shape.
Despite the discomfort that world creates, I still find it remarkably difficult to step away from.

It made me wonder…

Why do some of the most uncomfortable musical experiences become the most compelling?

Is it our search for resolution? The unpredictability? Or does discomfort itself create a different kind of emotional gravity?
I’d love to hear how other composers and listeners think about this.

For anyone interested in the context, here’s the third movement that inspired these questions:

🎧 Youtube Link

🎧 Spotifay Link

For a long time, I kept asking myself whether musical form has to be designed before a piece begins, or whether it can emerge naturally through the act of listening.

While recording my album Shapeless, I deliberately avoided planning clear sections, themes or a traditional architecture. Instead, I followed the music continuously for 22 minutes, allowing the structure to reveal itself only through the unfolding of the improvisation.

It made me wonder:

Can listeners discover a form that the composer never consciously designed?

I’m genuinely curious how other composers think about this. Do you believe musical form is something we create before composing, or something that can arise during the listening experience itself?

If anyone is interested in hearing the experiment, I’ll leave it here:

Youtube Full Album

Spotify Link

Hello everyone,

I’m a composer from Georgia working in contemporary classical and free improvisation.

My latest release, Modern Forms of Beauty, is based on recordings and musical ideas I created in 2015. Rather than revising them years later, I reconstructed and documented them as they originally emerged.

One question has stayed with me throughout the process:
At what point does an improvisation become a composition?

I’d genuinely love to hear how other composers and listeners think about this relationship.

If anyone is curious, here’s the album:

Youtube

Spotify