Leon Lindon

I wasn’t exag­ger­at­ing when I said I was going to be updat­ing this site reg­u­larly. For today I offer you in the early hours of the morn­ing (see time­stamp), a lit­tle exer­cise I wrote for piano, which I call Silence, Sweet Silence.

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This was writ­ten more or less to match the har­monic ten­den­cies of the Roman­tic era, and thus I used sev­eral tech­niques and chords which you would hear in that type of music.

Of course, it would be nice if it were longer, but like Satie, I have a pen­chant for writ­ing short pieces any­way, so I like it.

The rampantly-changing moods were achieved through a need to exper­i­ment in mod­u­la­tions but I actu­ally really like the effect of the tonal insta­bil­ity and I felt that the over­all impres­sion was akin to the insta­bil­ity of human emotion.