MVP - for film scoring class

We were given a short film, and some instructions. Enjoy!

Hullabaloooooo

This is for six hands and one piano! Finally finished all of composition yesterday and engraving them right now! Can't wait to see the performance on one of the composer concert haha.

ssspooooooooOOOooooooooOOOooOOOOkyyyyyyYYyyyy telephone sounds

my telephone sounds patch has grown and now includes SPOOOKKKYyyyy telephone sounds

SOUNDS HERE

No real thing today but a thing nonetheless

Fresh beets

telephone sounds

today I made a patch that makes telephone dialing noises when you press numbers on your keyboard!

Wish I had a third movement of telephone piece instead, but there ya go.

I also learned that you can export an image of a patch very easily from max itself and you don't actually have to drive yourself nuts taking screenshots.

Siciliana

Prelude

Today's is a start on a suite of pieces, a partita for a young pianist. I can't believe that Spring Break is almost over. Devo.

Dunham, NC 27701

I need to catch up on other people's music.

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/durham-nc-27701

Trombones like always

telephone piece!

Today I was finally ripped out of my warm cocoon of denial.

So I finally put in some work on a high-stress project instead of continuing to just dork around with cabaret. Here's the second movement of my telephone piece I'm working on with/for Jon Clancy.

The gimmick of this piece is that there's a wired telephone onstage that people can call. This would be hard to do with mobiles.

PLEASE if anybody has comments like "this game clearly doesn't work and here's why" PLEASE TELL ME because I'm not a composer of games normally, this is new for me.

Thanks friends.

more cabaret!

Here's a couple of first pages of things I'm working on related to the same cabaret- the first is a cheesy orchestral intro, the second is the first page of a song!

Etude - Tongue

I've given up all pretence of writing practically for the piano.
Catch some sound & score HERE

Franco-Phones

Trying to badly channel my inner Feldman. I gotta get another one out early today, so have fun. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/francophones

   

a rough BUT COMPLETE draft of a cabaret song!

context:

The singer is a statue who has been wished into life by her creator and she's not too excited about the life the sculptor has imagined for her...

Need to tweak some of who's playing what when, and please be warned this music is cheesy, but not as cheesy as the MIDI MAKES IT. The midi is so cheesy.

Score and audio HERE

Bird Songs - for Piano

Score HERE

This is a piece for performance at a rather nationalistic Australian event, related specifically to the soldiers who died in World War 1. I was asked to compose the piece as a sort-of elegy, and I felt that I should write miniatures based on sketches (and some finished pieces) that I made, related to birds and sky.
As relates to Month of Music, I finished the set today! So yay to that, but also, my piece today was the second movement, which was the only thing I wrote entirely today.

Even More Trombone Fun

 Second Page of the piece "Baubo" for Solo Trombone

cabaret!!

I am working on some cabaret songs with a chamber orchestra! Not finished yet, but hopefully soon! Here's a couple pages:

Baubo the II still for Solo Trombone

I took a sabbatical yesterday, but I've returned with a reworking of my trombone piece.



If you guys are lucking enough, you'll hear the final product on April 5th at the MSM Composition Forum. (Also that reminds me I really have to finish this and engrave it soon)

Etude for piano - Lung

 

sax quartet mini

Hey friends!

I wrote a lil miniature for sax quartet! Not sure yet how I feel about it... I may attempt a piece with a smaller number of saxophones, just to get more comfortable with saxophone

Audio and score HERE

Matador Part 2

If I could have the singer holding a dripping beef lung, that'd be good