some trio piece - in progress

i did around 4.5hrs of online tutoring today - i mentor a class of HSC music students with their compositions and their school moved online this week. one of the students is delighted by the sleep-ins and staying-up-lates, and another feels lonely, separated from their peers. i can't imagine how weird and stressful it must be.................

here's a piece i started tonight which i'll be trying to finish tomorrow and then fully annotating every single musical decision i made, in order to demonstrate to the class how developing motifs can work in coherent, interesting, and sensible ways. my motif here is literally just 3rds i guess!



p.s. i'm using an expired trial version of sibelius that neither allows me to save the file nor export it into audio/score... does anyone have any advice as to........ how to not completely lose all this writing overnight or over the next few days? :/ and also eventually send it to people? the only thing i can think of is to transcribe it from this screenshot onto my old laptop which has a glitchy old version of sibelius but would suffice.

The Message of the Flowers - poem by Louisa Lawson

Just realised that I could export the score as a graphic, no need to convert pdf's into images. I've been hacking at screenshots for years, would love to have known this before now.

Ahh back to my favourite poet, and this heartbreaker that I presume is about her daughter who died young. (Her son grew up to be Henry Lawson, in case you didn't know.)

It's lacking all sorts of things including dynamics and articulations, but I'll get around to that when I've finished the fifth and final song, which I think is going to be a poem from Yeats, my other favourite poet.

sad in brisbane

I miss everyone.

had a tumultuous couple of days so I just sat down and said hello to the family grand piano now I’m here for the near future at least.

it isn’t that interesting but it’s a bunch of chords that feel nice to play. Sorry it’s long, was going to cut it in half but whooop here we are.

will write more once I’m settled :)

https://soundcloud.com/jmgibson/hello-from-brisbane/s-fZO01zmARRN