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

Matador Part 1

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate Sibelius sounds? Honestly, that's a big part of why this piece has taken so long. The castanet sounds have been replaced by woodblocks, the baritone sounds like shit, but hey the piano's not too bad and the double bass has a nice grunt to it so who cares anyhow.
This is a setting of a poem, there are three more parts to this poem! Hoping to get them all done by the end of MoM...

For sounds and music, click the word hate

Thanks friends :)

sometimes I have bad feelings

and I turn them into chords and put them with a beat and they become something else

Pomegranate and Bees

Had to get mine our early today, cos got some shopping to do. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/one-pomegranate-and-bees 

One day, I can hopefully get a real piece going.

Till that day

(Also I forgot to show the score for my twelve tone piece, so go back and check it out, if anyone cares)

Weird jam alert

This is my final study before I write a crazy piece. Have a weird jam HERE

Hand Sanitizer: Kills 99.99% of Germs

My first official venture into official 12 tone pieces. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/hand-sanitizer

A Piece a day is starting to surprisingly become harder and harder, but that's okay, because we're all masochists here :)

horn piece update!

hello friends!

This horn piece is tentatively titled Iris blooming

I did end up transposing- I like the result!

Score and audio HERE.

horn piece

I missed midnight by 27 minutes!!! Damn!!! Not that it matters!

I'm wrestling with this horn piece. It would have been done by now if I hadn't been a little fool and written a stupidly difficult horn part in spite of writing this with students in mind.

So now I'm in that hell-space of "transpose or rewrite"?

Here are the chords I'm working with. Tomorrow I hope to post a finished version!! Even if I have to switch instruments!!! Agh!!

Audio of the whole piece as it is HERE

Our Sorrows - part 1

Hi folks - something different today. I'm orchestrating right now, for the forces you can see in the score, from a choir part I wrote some weeks ago. This is a rewrite of a part of the Messiah, although it's secular and sounds nothing like Handel. I'm half way through, and the rest is basically a pop song, so stay tuned

Score and audio HERE

Diego Day

I wrote this in the morning, then in the afternoon gave it to a guitarist to record. And that's the story of how we ended up with this. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/diego-day

Inspired by Cornet Hornman

03 the other part of Bello Belly

Composed when I was on my way back to hotel. This is for the friend whose secret nickname is sexy beast. Basically I just make fun of the rhythm and and sound, so I cut them into se-xy "beat"-st. Beats for the sound of slap lab.

Roar - for Double Bass

Another etude on the theme I established yesterday.

Apologies for the rough presentation!

Cool Tunes for Mellow Tribunes

Fun times here in sunny The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland. 

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/cool-song-for-cooler-people

Hope you all enjoy (Also how do I the soundcloud link just show up without having people have to copy and paste it?)(thanks in advance, huggs and kisses0) (I messed up and uploaded it incorrectly the first time)

02 Glisten-Children Part

The middle peek part of the piece for electronic, voice and saxophone. Still editing the sound part in Logic. Text referent from the Lucifer, 2015's drama television series.

max patch using record~ and buffer~

In the wee hours of the morning today, I got started on a patch that records into a buffer and then plays back. I have the playback and record functions automated with a counter. The result is still a pretty rough sound- lots of technical details to work out, to say nothing of the compositional work that still needs done, but I'm really excited about it!

Here's the patch, and the audio I recorded out of it when I was loopy at 4am!


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(for those who don't know, you can copy this block of text and use the "new from clipboard" function in Max to see the actual patch!)

google drive link to the audio: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qrfixaSrBLJWxVjIrexR5WF7YeCXPbzj

xxx

Well I did some sketches for a trombone piece titled "Baubo" after our favorite Greek rascal. For some reason I assumed that trombone players read their music sideways so that's why I posted it like this. It has nothing to do with my image rotation ineptitude.

Piece for two drums

A sketch!

I am not yet sure what drums I mean by drums. Need to run it by a percussionist friend I think.

Oops I just noticed an error in the last bar... I think you can figure out what I meant

Etude for Piano: Matador

 

Audio HERE

This is a study for a piece I want to write, this November. More to come!

Day 1! Excited!

01 Bello Belly

Hi everyone, 
This is Lydia from first day trip in London.  I composed this when I was waiting my dinner. Belly is always my favorit part of human body, but only sometime would be mine haha. This piece is inspired from a conversation between a friend that we were trying to find a best sound of his hidden talent, slap mouth through one finger. So I just combine them. Also, Bello is minions Hello~

I am just a test post, that's about it.

https://soundcloud.com/shoeser1870/whistling-pest-toast

Hopefully this works

30 Final boss

I really wanted to get a stronger result with risset rhythms, instead I've ended up with this god forsaken Franken-patch, but it is sort of doing what I want it to. In brief I did this:

- I dissected the glissando max for live patch from a few days ago away from ableton M4l in just standalone max.
- I broke up what was previously a poly~ object into multiple audio outs.
- Set each of the math operations controlling the poly~ object to receive audio input from multiple groove~ objects each playing the same buffer.
- Mapped the pitch math to control a sig~ object controlling play back speed of each groove.

I know that image doesn't really capture whats going on, but basically there are four copies of the maths operations each managing a seperate groove~. Their level is proportional to their tempo and pitch (the red patch lead) and they are all commencing at different tempi/pitch/loudness. The intent is to create an eternal accelerando.

I also used a drum break that was used in a demonstration of risset rhythms from Dan Stowel's Paper, this worked HEAPS better than jongly.aif

Have a listen here:


On Monday I'll be going through and commenting on everyone's stuff. Grats to all of you, you amazing people. Have a brilliant weekend!

Love,
Hakushu

last post: another phase experiment

You guys.

We did an amazing thing. I'm going to miss this. Part of me wants it to keep going... but I have some finals and doctoral apps to attend to! It's been nice ignoring those things and prioritizing creating!

I meant to make something nice and fun for my last post, here in Manhattan where it's the last hours of November, but instead I made a 3 hr long going out of phase thing, prompted by the ugly feelings I have when I look at photos of myself-- It's a state of mind, more than a piece, and it's not exactly a positive state of mind. It's called, "how i feel about my body," and I'm not quite satisfied with it, but it has some good moments, particularly the beginning, the minute starting at 2hrs:31min, and the long fade at the end.

I want to make a happier version of a long ambient-mood-tape!

So much love, and until next time,
Christine

Two Madrigals - last post

It's getting close to midnight on the 30th of November, here in New York. I've enjoyed this process so much, there's a part of me that wants to do it again right away, but that part of me is drunk with power and needs to go to bed for a while. Thank you all for making this webpage a pleasure to visit, and for producing so much excellent music. March 2018, anyone?

Last one

Congratulations everyone! I'm really blown away by what you've squeezed out of your brains and your other body parts that music comes from. The standard of work has been so high from everyone, it's left me feeling like there is a lot of good art out there (more now) and a lot left to be made. I am sad about bowing out for a week with my arm but happy to report it's feeling a lot better. I've been strengthening it and am getting pretty ripped tbh. Love to you all and I look forward to doing a thorough comb through/reminisce in the next few days.

Christine & Andrew combined jam

Here's a lil synth jam we cooked up this afternoon, while we were both really hungry and wanting to go eat dumplings. Tech by Andrew, Music by Christine

Audio Here

Andrew here... film scoring tropes

Greetings, it's Andrew (I left my computer at home, am spending the night at Christine's)
For my film scoring class, we had to 'compose' a piece, using virtual synths such as omnisphere, stylus rmx, absynth, and so on. He was pushing for a very generic sound, and I spent as little time as possible achieving it. (as you can see, I'm bitter - but I feel better after making a thing with Christine, to be uploaded shortly :) )

The scenario: Dystopic future, awaking despair.

Audio

29 Super slow phase music

Ok so I haven't researched whether or not this has been done before (I'm sure it has heaps!) but today I created a phase of jongly, where the two voices differ by 0.01 bpm :o

So after about 2.5 minutes (55 bars or a one bar loop), the music is one 256th note stretched away from its starting point.

The top voice is the original, and I've dragged bottom one to take about 12 miliseconds longer all together. I chose this difference as you are able hear the phase descend from a pitch into a rhythmic difference by the end of the recording.



Yeh!

Music for iced water

feat brain freeze

Fall, leaves

I love Brontë, not just because she wrote a poem that resonates with me so much she could've written it after a conversation with me, but for many other things too.

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; 

Lengthen night and shorten day; 

Every leaf speaks bliss to me 

Fluttering from the autumn tree. 

I shall smile when wreaths of snow 

Blossom where the rose should grow; 

I shall sing when night’s decay 

Ushers in a drearier day.

Emily Bront

Something we can all relate to

28 Pseudo Random Number Generation

Hello,

First up, apologies for not commenting for a little while, I plan on sitting down and go through the past couple of days of posts from everyone after this week is done. Everyone that I've skimmed through in the past week looks great, but I just haven't had the time to sit down and comment properly on something.

So today I did some maxing. From yesterday's pattern searching I needed a bit of chaos to balance things out. Playing a large amount of video games has always given me an interest in random number generation, so today I did a bit of reading a learning about how that works. This was a particularly useful video, and also an amazing maths related channel.



I had a go at making the middle square random number generator spoken about in this video. This is an interesting one because it "ends" depending on a seed. As you watch the numbers appear, they certainly look random, and the sequence of numbers can go on for a long time, but it is always finite. I set up the following numbers to output pitch, in a comparison to the ordinary max random object. Turns out they both sound pretty random :/
Check it out:

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It gets deeper but. Everyone understands the idea of randomness...but if randomness is traceable to a seed, is there anything in the universe truly random? Is the "seed" of the universe just the big bang? And which combination of random objects really does sound most like R2D2?

borrowing ideas

Hey everybody!

Tonight I experimented a bit with Alice's phase/loop situation! I don't know if this is in its final form. I sort of think it's the kind of audio that would be good in a museum setting, just a running loop while people are looking at visual art. I'll have to try doing this loop thing with the youtube vids also, rather than doing it myself. The benefit of doing it myself is that I can put one voice in one ear and the other in the other. ALSO I definitely should have used a nice mic and all that instead of just using my built-in.

If one day I become famous and then die I hope they have a museum retrospective with my writing desk, my fish drawings, selected poems/diaries/letters, my collection of analog telephones, some eccentric outfits I was known for, some handwritten manuscripts, etc. in it, and I hope they'll put this audio in it.

I thought it would eventually line up like at the beginning again, but I think I was mistaken because an hour's worth of loops later and it gets so close! But isn't quite lined up. Which is kind of beautiful in a way.

Here's the text I wrote for this:

"It’s not that I miss it exactly, but that I miss the time then, the old paths I walked, the dry leaves underfoot, the cutting of the wind. I miss the wind-tears on my cheeks, I miss the cold smell of Northern winter. The smell of wet pine by the lake. The library in February. Maybe I noticed the sun more then. I never notice it now. The way I was, the way I wore my hair, the way I dressed, the way I gestured with my hands. The timbre of my voice, a timbre that’s lost to me now. The utterances I reached for, which were different from the ones I reach for now. The thoughts I thought. The inhalations, exhalations, excitations of then, so different from now. So distant from now. Becoming distant, and distant, and distant again with every day."

There is no frigate like a book - for Soprano and Piano

Another little song, this time with noodley free-chosen vowels

There is no Frigate like a book,
to take us Lands away.
Nor any Coursers, like a Page
of Prancing Poetry.
This Traverse, may the poorest take
without Oppress or Toll.
How frugal is the Chariot,
that bears the Human Soul.

Emily Dickinson

27 Larger scale polyrhtyhm slides

Hello everyone, last few days now!

Today's project was to start conceptualising how I could develop a piece out of the idea of polyrhythmic sliding that I was playing around with in the second or first week of MoM. This is just going to be a post discussing some of the ideas I explored today.

Conception:
The idea is two voices begin in a polyrhythmic relationship such as 3:2. Expressed in terms of tempo, such as 120bpm:80bpm, one of the voices accelerates to a tempo to create a new polyrhtyhm relationship. A blurred metric modulation. For example, the 120bpm voice might accelerate 200bpm from the previous scenario to make a new polyrhythm of 5:2 (200bpm:80bpm).

Process determining form:
I'm attracted to a sort of Reich/minimal approach for composing this. I aim to determine patterns of moving between tempo ratios from integers 1-5 that lets the piece unfold logically. It's quite easy to make and compare polyrhythms on ableton. I just set up two midi tracks with different subdivision of a quarter note in each. The logical unfolding I'm hoping will emerge through experimenting with different polyrhtyhms by triggering them in Ableton's clip view. This set up will also allow me to experiment and compare different pitch ideas. For now I'm keeping pitch to arbitrary scalic patterns in opposite directions to help distinguish the voices.

Slide time:
What's not so easy is determining the length of time for an accelerando between tempi. I prefer slow accelerandi that are similar sonically to Reich's acoustic phases. Making these resolve perfectly to a specific second tempo is tricky in itself, but the process gets messy when you have pitch.

After a good couple of hours experimenting and developing a couple of accels between voices. I'm going to leave this project for today and think about something different I'll work on tomorrow.

Peace,
Kurt

Glass Insects

Every MoM I always seem to have something about glass/clear things/tiny things/insects. Glass is such a constant source of inspiration to me. Or an obsession. Some might remember Electrical Glass Ants Put On A Concert from March, made from recordings of Hyung Suk's noble performance of the cruel original.

Well this month's instalment is an Infinity for Dinner version that you can almost taste. I'm really chuffed with how it turned out. If you go through the trek of ticking loop on every video, it's worth it I think.

Also quite nice to listen to at the same time as EGAPOAC, I just realised.

Sorry for lack of browsing your work, friends. I am planning a binge tomorrow.

Love,
Alice

Motet for Sylvia

I've had this music/words combo in my head since May. This is a little motet on a line from one of Sylvia Plath's early poems, found in a letter. I'd like to write some more secular motets like this on Sylvia Plath texts. She wrote some beautiful things in her diary and her letters.

In Memoriam for Soprano and Piano

Today I've got another little morsel for voice and piano, this time for soprano, because who isn't in love with at least one soprano, am I right?

Sad piece:

Score:



Audio:

26 Rainy Morning Melody Reharm

Alice suggested earlier in the month I reharmonise her composition from Day 4, "Rainy  Morning Melody". had a crack at that today. I'd accidently copied the B natural in bar 7 as an A natural...and well fuck I also ended the melody on the wrong note.... Urgh... Sorry Alice :( Hope you dig the different take on it!!

Stille Nacht

A last-minute arrangement for my m8s down in canberra.