With his latest piece, The Seaman, Michele Nobler feels less like he is writing music and more like gathering sonic waves to ebb and flow gently over you. The fact that the music perfectly emulates the element in the title shows his adept at turning mere notes into a musical description of what he is evoking here.
You could even go one stage further and say that The Seaman, the central track on his latest album, Glass Boxes, around which all the other music seems to be connected like spokes to the hub of a wheel, is not even an artist attempting to describe a scene to the listener but merely capture its essence in a different medium – sonic rather than physical.
In every soft ripple of notes, there’s a fluid grace, a choreography of sound. Each space between one note and the next becomes a moment for introspection before another gentle breaking of waves at the water’s edge, the keys in slow but constant motion as the water follows its unrelenting destiny.
The unadorned nature of things is also its brilliance. It is understated rather than plain, simple rather than simplistic, and elegant because of rather than despite this, all of which are musical choices rather than creative necessities. This unadorned, understated quality is also the key that allows Michele Nobler to bring these liquid motions to life, a simplicity that speaks volumes. It’s not a lack of capability but a conscious decision, a subtlety that conceals years of training, countless hours of commitment, and a lifetime of artistic dedication and imagination.
Much like his vision of the water, Michele Nobler’s music embraces simplicity not out of artistic limitation but as a conduit to unearth the primal beauty of the natural world. In this crafted symphony, he has woven a tapestry of artistry that echoes the wisdom that true beauty often lies in unassuming simplicity. And here we are talking both about the the water itself, but also the man behind the music.
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