Score of the week: Dark Stairs in a Strange City . . .

   

A musical Haiku in 12/8 time divided 3+2+2+3+2. For a quartet of Alto Flute, Guitar, Bass and Drums.

Score and MP3 at: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/32585.html

Score of the week: Impression No. 1

   

First of a set of five Impressions. Impression of what you ask? That is up to your mind and ears to decide.

Listen to this piece in a calm and quiet spot.

Close your eyes.

Let the music take your imagination on a trip.

Score and MP3: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/147406.html
 
    

Score of the Week: Forgotten Thoughts

  

Forgotten Thoughts

A laid back 12/8 groove featuring a soprano vocalise followed by a harder 4/4 middle section and finishes up with a return to the 12/8 groove. Ten minutes of sounds and textures that go nowhere.

MP3 and PDF Score: Forgotten Thoughts
                 

Score of the Week: Impression No. 2

Impression No. 2

Second in a set of five Impressions.

Impression of what you ask? That is up to your mind and ears to decide. Listen to this piece in a calm and quiet spot, close your eyes and let the music take your imagination on a trip.

Score and MP3
    

Score of the Day

  

Out, Damn Spot!

Sometimes I just get these crazy ideas stuck in my head and I have to get them out of my head and inflict my madness on the world. This piece is one of those ideas, a perverse genetic mutation with the potential to offend even the deaf.

I have describe it as Schoenberg and Shakespeare visit Compton.

Out, Damn Spot! (MP3): https://soundcloud.com/ed-w-sharpe/out-damn-spot

Score: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/178439.html

Out, Damn Spot!

Sometimes I just get these crazy ideas stuck in my head and I have to get them out of my head and inflict my madness on the world. This piece is one of those ideas, a perverse genetic mutation with the potential to offend even the deaf.

I have describe it as Schoenberg and Shakespeare visit Compton.

Out, Damn Spot! (MP3)

Currently there is no score as only 80 percent of the piece was written in Sibelius. The other 20 percent was done in Sonar and has not yet made its way back into Sibelius.

Impressions No. 1 to 5

  
A set of five impressions

Impression of what you ask? That is up to you and your ears to shape. Listen to this piece in a tranquil and quiet spot, close your eyes and let the music take your imagination on a trip.

All five impressions in one continuous recording:

https://soundcloud.com/ed-w-sharpe/impressions-no-1-5

Impression No. 1 Score & Recording

http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/147406.html

Impression No. 2 Score & Recording

http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/150755.html

Impression No. 3 Score & Recording

http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/151773.html

Impression No. 4 Score & Recording

http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/165384.html

Impression No. 5 Score & Recording

http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/167156.html

 
 

   

The Squirrels Ran Away

         
So I started working on the idea that I had at lunch yesterday when I got home last night. After about ten minutes I came to the conclusion that 99 percent of it was crap. So into the round filing cabinet it went. This resulted in me working on Impression No. 5 for the rest of the night. I am very happy where I am with this piece I hope I will be able to get a mix of it done by the end of the weekend. But as you know squirrels are tricky bastards; who knows what they are planning.
               

Squirrels Everywhere I Look

               

So I am in the process of finishing working on Impression No. 5 with the hope that I can mix it over the weekend. But. As I am sitting here eating my lunch I got an idea for another large project and spent half of my lunch starting to sketch it out. Only God knows if I will get back on track with Impression No. 5 or spend the next weeks working on my new idea for a new piece (lets not even mention that I still have the Ballet to work on).

No Squirrels Last Night

     
Impression No. 4.  Fourth in a plan set of five.

Impression No. 4: MP3

Impression No. 4:  Score and MP3

So Many Squirrels

               

I spent most of Friday night working and revising Impression No. 5 and I now feel that it is at least 95 percent done; just need a few more listen through and we should be ready to start mixing. Impression No. 4 is waiting for its final mix down and I should had finished it this weekend, but I did not. After working most of Friday night on polishing No. 5 I spent the rest of weekend distracted by squirrels and got nothing more done. Maybe tonight.
                     

Impressions of Squirrels

 

I continued with writing Impression No. 5 last night.  I would say that I am now about 90 percent done with it.  All of the notes are down on the page, it is now a mater of cleaning up the notation, working on the small things, like dynamic marks.  Still need to finish mixing Impression No. 4.  Squirrel!

                  

More Squirrels!

         
In my last update I stated that I had been putting off mixing of my piece Impression No. 4 for some time now. One of the reasons was because I had no idea for Impression No. 5. (The Impression series was originally conceived as a set of seven pieces, but was trimmed to five by the time I finished Impression No. 1.) So I knew I would be writing an Impression to finish the set off, I just did not know what form it would take.


I truly expected to work on and quite possibly finish mixing Impression No. 4 last night, but as I listen to the first four impressions at lunch on Wednesday Impression No. 5 bloomed full born in my head. So instead of working on the mix for Impression No. 4, I spent most of the night working on Impression No. 5.



Who knows what will distract me tonight!  

Too Many Squirrels

       
I finished writing Impression No. 4 back in early November of 2014, but I have put off mixing it for the since then. Last weekend after doing a little sketching of some ideas for the new ballet on Friday night I spent the rest of the weekend setting and mixing Impression No. 4. I am currently listening to two different mixes I did before I do the final mix. With some luck and no squirrels I should have something for people to listen to by the end of the weekend, if not sooner.
               

• Impression No. 1
• Impression No. 2
• Impression No. 3
• Impression No. 4: Coming soon

                    

Impression No. 4

I finally had the needed time to work on Impression No. 4 this last weekend. Since my last update where I said I was 50 percent done with it, I had to ripped out about half of the done work and start over again. Impression No. 4 is by far the most complex of the movements. At this point I estimate that about 80 percent of the material for Impression No. 4 has been written and now it is just a matter of refining and polishing it before moving on to the recording and mixing of the piece.

Impression No. 3

 

Third in a planned set of five Impressions.

Intense, very fast, unrelenting.

Impression of what you ask? That is up to your mind and ears to decide. Listen to this piece in a clam and quiet spot, close your eyes and let the music take your imagination on a trip.



Impression No. 3
https://soundcloud.com/ed-w-sharpe/impression-no-3

Impression No. 2

Second in a planned set of five Impressions. Impression of what you ask? That is up to your mind and ears to decide. Listen to this piece in a clam and quiet spot, close your eyes and let the music take your imagination on a trip.

         

Impression No. 2

Impressions

Work on my set of musical impressions continues.  I am currently mixing Impression No. 2 and I have finished writting/composing Impression No. 3.  And I will begin mixing it after I have finished mixing Impression No. 2.

Impression No. 4 is about 50 percent written,  just need a block of several uninterrupted hours to finish it.  I have not yet begun working on Impression No. 5, which will be the last one in the set.

Impression No. 1

Impression No. 1

First in a planned set of seven Impressions. Impression of what you ask? That is up to you and your ears to shape. Listen to this piece in a tranquil and quiet spot, close your eyes and let the music take your imagination on a trip.

Impression No. 1