started a thing, will continue tomorrow!! (bari horn quintet???)

i wish i had a baritone horn so i could record this super slow and then speed it up in audacity and see if it sounds like how i wanted it to sound 

Emily Dickinson on Bees

This one's the second in some April Songs I'm starting with.

Computerised audio:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/m99ls9ixuc5w1uv/Emily%20Dickinson%20on%20Bees.mp3?dl=0

Month of Music Collab 1 - Andrew London, Horn

Hello everyone,

Some generous musicians have agreed to do a set of composer-performer collabs here within Month of Music, and I'm thrilled to introduce the first.

Andrew London is a brilliant horn player from Sydney, developing quite a reputation for playing some of the trickiest repertoire written for the instrument. He's a lovely guy and has set the following parameters:

- duration of up to 2-3 minutes

- please avoid multiphonics & microtones, but all other extended techniques are good to go

- no high C's would be appreciated but one or two is probably doable if the context demands it

- low range bottoms out around the D two 8ves below the D at the bottom of the treble stave (horn pitch)

- Due date: Thursday 26th of March


After Thursday, Andrew will record these and may wish to get in touch, so please indicate your preferred method of communication when you add your piece to the blog.

Following the recording, I'll seek the go-ahead from everyone involved and, if ok, do a bit of posting on socials. There's no pressure on this and you're also welcome to do the posting yourself if you wish.

Let me know if you have any questions in the comments!

Next one to come in a few days...

Not knowing when the Dawn will come

Hello friends! I had a couple of whacks today and this is the one that landed. It feels so good to write.

Here's the Emily Dickinson poem I set:

Not knowing when the Dawn will come, I open every Door,Or has it Feathers, like a Bird,Or Billows, like a Shore –

hopscotch (a bopscotch) - score only

hi andrew (and i think josie???) am i doing this right whooooo

EDIT: 

i forgot to say that vln speeds up a bit and vc slows down a bit over 4 of the x5 bars near the end, then they play the last repeat of three notes in unison