this weekend has been...

a lot of just hand copying and scanning my solo soprano piece for Amber! I am still dissatisfied with the quality of the scan, so I may have to seek out alternative solutions!

string quartet no.6 movement 1

This is a piece that will deal with the nature of changes, and particularly changes in nature.

Mvt 1 is v slow and contemplative, grab a jazz cigarette and enjoy

Score and Audio HERE

even when you smile

'even when you smile' sounds like the title of a jazz tune

more of my piece for soprano clarinet and piano!

score draft here!

Rainy Morning Melody

This is an arrangement of a tune by Alice Chance, from the last month of music. I wanted to exercise some video game nostalgia, so I chose some bitcrushed samples and a NES sampler that I've been using for a while. Enjoy!

a piece for soprano clarinet and piano

still figuring things out... this is for one of the forum readings, so I have slightly more time than other pieces but... still practically no time.

unfinished score draft here

Final version (?) of the excerpted string 4tet no.5

This one contains some polyrhythmic action, players taking the earbuds of separate metronomes and playing along with them.

link here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/vcs7lx4as5qzn54/Fire%20-%20String%20Quartet%20no.5%20CPP%20WORKSHOP%20-%20Full%20Score%20with%20metronomes.pdf?dl=0

not sure what this is

I wrote a sketch today, with a mix of texts from different sources. A couple lines from DH Lawrence, then a few from the historical letters of Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward (two lady lovers in Memphis in the 1800s, who then were forcibly separated by their families... there's more to this story, but you can look it up yourselves if you're so inclined)

I'm hearing a chamber ensemble of some kind when I listen to this. For two voices.

midi HERE

some sassy 12 tone EDM

Lincc

feat. Babbity Rabbity

Night lies beside me

Fellow Feet and Bello Belly

Finally I'm  posting!!!

Just finished them, might still need some fine tune.

still needs dynamics! bleh!

Here's my CPP ensemble piece! It has a lot of boxes and arrows, so midi is a no go, but here's the score!

Now I need to go work on my patch for electronic music! agh!

Morning and Evening

This one's a Haiku, in music and words

String Quartet no5 update, still not final

Link Here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mbQIq2YAXXbXNZa3F6gmEdxi9nMKrkqx/view?usp=sharing

I rewrote a substantial amount of it. The stuff I took out is going to end up in the final version... consider this something like a 'first movement,' although the finished product is probably going to be quite different again.

sneak peek of ensemble piece

a preview of the ensemble piece I'm working on!! more tomorrow!

piece for the cpp ensemble

stay tuned folks! my daylight attempts were unsatisfactory, but now that the midnight hour has past, I think I may have something... more tomorrow

Fire - string quartet no.5

score's a mess, but it's the start for a piece.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fbphyl8FipZ6AA3XQXOYhhVzy7cJcV2Q

religious music is scary

but it's even scarier with this amount of delay feedback on it

many thanks to bach for writing scary organ music (durch adams fall)

audio HERE

hang in there everybody

The Pond

Desolation

happy little piano phase

or something?

I made a little phase thing-- I think it would be better live, more interesting? Maybe even different instruments would be better, like two violins? ten minutes of the same 18 eighth notes over and over again. Not sure how I feel about it, seems almost too simple. But I also like it.

midi HERE

humming song 2

another little humming song that was stuck in my head-- very similar to the first in some ways. I always think the music I write when I have a migraine comes out confused, so I'm curious to see how this sounds when I feel normal again.

midi HERE

Aliens

humming song

a little humming song I had stuck in my head

midi HERE

A Lover

Everyone's busy as hell. Seems like a good time to dig into favourite poetry, so I did that for this brief thing tonight

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

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)