Horn Collab complete!

Just a quick update to say that I've got the videos from today's recordings, and I'm going to trim and match them to their audio tomorrow so that I can get them out to you all. Andrew was tremendously positive about the experience and has given some lovely compliments about the works.

If you didn't get around to writing a piece, he's still available to do more recordings and if you post a horn piece on the blog I'll make sure to get it to him. Additionally, he's open to more long-form works if you're working on them - and as he's also a Mandolin player, might feature on this blog again in the near future.

Wonderful works everyone!

Andrew H

flute adaptation of that horn quintet - audio

i turned the horn quintet into a flute thing bc i wanted to hear whether it was trash or actually alright LOL so here is a scrappy recording (don't put ur volume on too high, there's a bunch of clips and noise)!

https://soundcloud.com/greytonguelizzed/flute-adaptation-of-i-came-here-to-have-a-good-time-and

things i changed in the adaptation:
- transposed it
- no mutes
- instead of pedals i have singing & playing
- yep that's about it i think




i also finished the trio i was writing for the students but am waiting to hear some feedback from a pianist and clarinettist so i'll post that when i finish edits :)

The Isle of Innisfree - poem by Yeats

I decided to stay up and do my comp for today tonight, so to speak. This is the last April Song in the cycle so I'm happy it's finally out of my system! Looking to do something radically different tomorrow... any ideas?

r a n t + poem pictures

the pace of my brain and the pace of my typesetting are aligned 15% of the time, brain and longhand maybe 40% of the time, otherwise one is always faster than the other - if hand is faster, I can take time to think, but if I think too much brain takes over and it gets too erratic impatient and too hard and I really have to work on that. just practice, and lots of it. does this happen to anyone else? do you have any tips?

I still want to write the horn piece I had started to draft, but here's a little poem instead. it's a topic I want to scream about all the time and this def isn't doing what I want to be doing, but anyway.

based on information I found out about the physical origins of the word 'aphorism'

hey

h e y

check it out

universe of each little word

meaning cupped in horizons like

hands c u pp i n g w a t e r  to drink

or wash with clear reimagining

or splash to wake the eyes

enlightened

these

precious universes

savour each like chiming bells

history like s o u n d i n g o v e r t o n e s

fundamental meanings and ringing implications

check out    what happens when     you sound a word

at once you sound its meaning and let echo its history

even in this terrible poem a Notre Dame of bells ringing

neat right

n e a t  r i g h t

neat right