“Can I persuade you to love this dark bitter music?” – DAVID BRUCE COMPOSER

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is as dark and bitter as a pint of guinness. I didn’t enjoy my first taste of guinness but with the right motivation I eventually came to love it. Could the same happen with this piece of music?

1. Intro

2. Dissonance and Distortion in Music

3. Distortion – Harmonic ‘Smear’

4. Distortion – Melodic Blurring

5. Distortion – Stylistic Distortions

6. Distortion – Vocal Distortions (Sprechstimme)

7. Humour, Mickey Mousing

8. Multi-layered,

9. Compassion

10. Conclusions

11. Marquee TV