a need for rest
i went into this one with no real goal - just improv’d a little melody, then messed with it for a b theme. instrumentation came later.
battle for the meadow
i wanted to experiment with taking melodic material from a slower, calmer piece and transforming it into an action sequence.
in the end, i messed with the melodies a bit too much and the connection isn’t quite there. but it still turned out pretty good, all things considered.
meadow walk
it has been a wild few months since my last lunch special, so i wanted to write something relaxing. this should fit the bill.
toward the future
an attempt to write something that starts off inward looking, but then builds towards a sense of optimism.
thru the woods
i wanted to keep things simple here and see what happened to a few six-bar figures when you don’t change them (too much), but have the tempo gradually increase throughout the piece.
release
it’s been a crazy few months, and my desire to write anything came to a grinding halt. which sucks.
i decided to nip that in the bud and put digital pencil to digital paper and at least get something out there. i guess sometimes when you force yourself to create, it can work as i really like this one.
walking
i’ve been starting all of my pieces on a piano staff lately, but then either move everything to other instruments, or make the piano part a non-focus. wanted to do my best to make this a piano-only composition this time. alas, i still ended up adding strings.
maybe next time.
"flow like melancholy"
it’s been a while since i wrote for just strings, so that was one focus. the other was keeping myself in a x/8 time signature, as I’ve been stuck in an x/4 rut for a while.
sublight
this started off as just an experiment in exploiting triplets, but then it started sounding very much like a relaxed day, putting around in a lifeless star system on board the Enterprise.
also, i’m trialing out a thing with posting a video of the score too. just for fun…
offset
an experiment in shifting time signatures.
forming up
wanted to play with some percussion again, as it had been a while since i focused on it. turned out to be quite fun, i think.
a wander in the woods
playing around with a new string sample library, which has solo instruments! yay!
really though, trying to remind myself that i can in fact just write plain jane harmony parts - i don’t need to blaze a new trail and make things sound super unique.
overall, really happy with this one.
trumpet solo no. 1
the two-against-three (left hand vs right hand) feel in the piano is fun.
forced myself to write lower in the trumpet range (could have gone lower), as i tend to write trumpet parts in the upper half of the staff, if not higher. i’m sure trumpet players love that…
trumpet work in progress. missed putting something up in june, but this one started then.
a quality of malice
oooooo, this one kinda works together with one i wrote in april (with some editing)! total coincidence.
a quality of tension
boy does the default staffpad vocal sample library leave much to be desired, esp. compared to the other defaults. need to buy something better soon.
chase
trouble in love
mysterious liaison
“return from time” and “searching”