Today, sharing music is a familiar everyday activity that we don't even have to think about. Accessible home sound recording, streaming, instant communication, and the ability to transmit information over any distance are all privileges that mankind could not even have imagined just a short time ago.
How quickly time has changed is vividly illustrated by the story of one musical composition.
Friends from the Moscow Conservatory, Georg Pelecis and Vladimir Martynov, were forced to maintain a relationship by correspondence after graduation: Pelecis returned home to Riga, while Martynov remained in Moscow. In another letter, dated December 3, 1984, Pelecis enclosed a small piano piece that he "wrote in about ten or twenty minutes. In response, Martynov sent his little follow-up piece.
Thus was born a long-standing tradition of exchanging small musical fragments. It was just a friendly game, a natural form of communication for composers.
In the 90s, the tradition gradually died out and would have remained a mere private domain, if the composers hadn't decided to return to this idea. In 2002 a wonderfully designed recording came out: G. Pelecis, V. Martynov. Correspondence for two pianos.
Now music can be exchanged in real time from almost anywhere in the world. SoloApp is an online learning application with a priority for quality audio — from musicians to musicians.