This page is my commentary on the experimental, electronic, instrumental music I’ve found on the net.  These are my opinions.  We’re all entitled to our own opinion.  You have yours, and I have mine.

I’m not going to trash anybody.  I have the option to critique the music business in general and express my displeasure with most popular music.  But with regard to individual musicians and their music,  I only shout out what I’ve discovered to be good music–of course, it’s my opinion.

Then again, some of you might agree with my point of view on things.  If so, then my reviews here could help expose you to new music artists, instead of having to spend hours and hours sampling tracks on numerous website searching for something that turns you on.

Although these reviews are my opinions, there is a method to my selections.  I don’t assert that I would actually download any of these artist’s music for my own listening pleasure, although that’s possible.  I have a requirement–that the music sounds like the artist devoted some effort into the creation.  I have to feel like this artist is genuinely creating something, even if it’s not necessarily my bag.  No matter how experimental it is, I have to detect a special language being spoken, even if it’s a language I don’t understand.

I don’t have patience for the wannabe commercial artist–who somehow got the idea he’s going to become a “recording artist”, quit his day job, and receive the adulation of admiring fans.  There seems to be hundreds of thousands of these on the music sharing sites.  You have to put more effort into it than just turning on a groove machine, shaking your booty, and pretending your playing music.

May 28, 2026

(see SoundCloud.com,  soundcloud.com/jonathan_hannau/disintegration-in-five-parts-iv-for-zoe?in=charleyjoz2011/sets/experimental-classical)

First rate.  A chamber orchestra consisting of 12 players, performing music composed, evidently,  by Jonathan Hannau. It’s a shame that this gets labeled “experimental” music on these music sharing sites.  It is contemporary, acoustic instrumental music composed and performed by musicians with classical training.

I have to chuckle when I see the banner at the bottom that says, “Seems a little quiet over here.”  I’ve found that all the music worth listening to almost always has this banner.  I would rather that SoundCloud just put a drop-down menu that gives you a list of all these links.  Then I could go find the superior music directly, instead of spending hours playing MP3s that stink (people who think they’re going to become recording artists) until finally finding something superior, like Jonathan Hannau.  Then maybe it wouldn’t take me 11 years to find it.  But the likelihood of this happening is zero.  You know how these sites operate:  the lights are on, but nobody’s home.

This is listening music.  I know, that’s hard to understand.   You sit down in a dark room, with maybe a single candle.  Look at the floor and listen–no distractions, no talking.

May 25, 2026

Neuf Dix Onze

Gérard Delassus Chailles, France

(see “HearThis.at”:  hearthis.at/xnwdv7yv/neuf-dix-onze/)

It’s a quiet piano piece.  I think this is a composition, not an improvisation.  It’s redeeming features, like that of all good music, is that it is not monotonous.  The non-tonality in some phrases (calling it “atonal” might be to force it into a certain category)  helps to keep it interesting.  I might add this to my listening list of piano pieces like Bach fugues.