the darkness between the stars

You have just one more day to check out my compositions from my early university days. As I said in my last post I will be taking them down some time tomorrow. So do not miss your last chance to laugh at my early works. Links are in my previous post.

Going forward: I have not been doing a lot of composing since I got back from Japan. Doing the weekly Blog pieces (a new piece every week for 15 weeks) took a lot out of me. But this is not a bad thing. I think most artist need to step back from time to time and I am using this time to edit my existing scores, making corrections to typos and making other minor edits and changes. I will also be extracting and creating parts for my scores. I have also started on recording (using sampling technology) my third CD of my compositions.

The one piece that I did write since returning from Japan (actually most of the piece was sketched out waiting in airports and train stations in Japan) is called “the darkness between the stars” and is for String Orchestra and Solo Bb Bass Clarinet. I am not happy with the Bass Clarinet part and I am slowly revising it. I have been considering changing it and using a Contra BBb Bass Clarinet in its place, and I am now 98 percent sure that is what I am going to do. You can find the darkness between the stars HERE.

Program Note:
the darkness between the stars is a tone poem/haiku in which I tried to invoke the darkness/void/loneliness of deep space; out where there is nothing. 99.9999+ percent of the universe is an empty lonely place.

while I was writing this piece I imaged myself floating in the darkness of deep space billions of miles from any other being, billons of miles from even just another object, with just the faint dots of stars everywhere in the black void.