Moved my scores to Score Exchange

With SibeliusMusic going away I have move my scores to Score Exchange

New link to my original musical scores: http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/esharpe

I hear an angel

sipping rye whiskey
at the end of day
I hear an angel;
her voice floats over the din
of random conversations

Jesus Wept (New Recording)

Jesus Wept

At the end of April I upgraded my copy of Garritan Personal Orchestra to the latest version. With it came a set of Choir samples of Ahs and Ohs, but more importantly the new Aria engine (player) supports Scala files. These are files that describe various tunings and allow you to “play” in a tuning other than equal temperament. With these two givens I prepared a new “rendering” of my motet “Jesus Wept”; one using equal temperament and another using a Pythagorean temperament. I have uploaded the Pythagorean version to the score on SibeliusMusic:

Jesus Wept Equal Tempered

Jesus Wept Pythagorean


Ursus Demens

Winter's close

Winter's close,

white clouds peaking through

greyblue skies

Meditaion on the Sierpinski Tetrahedron

Best experienced with eyes closed in a dark and cool room.

19 minutes of ambient music.

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March 2011 Anno Domini

The experiment in the layering of synthesizers and rhythms over a bass drone and a bass ostinato continues.

Meditaion on the Sierpinski Tetrahedron on Sound Cloud
or
Meditaion on the Sierpinski Tetrahedron on Sibelius Music (w/ Score)

A short cruise... (a revised Score and a much improved recording)

A revised Score and a much improved recording:

"A short cruise through the semi-abandoned side streets and alleys of L.A during the wee hours of a hot
mid-summer's night"


At Sibelius Music (Score and MP3): "A Short Cruise ..."

At Amaze FM (MP3 only): "A Short Cruise ..."

The Moon Goddess

An ambient piece for flute and percussion.

MP3 at AMazeFM
http://www.amaze.fm/artist/Ed_Sharpe/the-moon-goddess/


Score and MP3 at SibeliusMusic.com
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/index.php?sm=home.score&scoreID=166121


PS: You do not need to install the “Scorch” plug-in to listen to the MP3 file, only to view the score. The MP3 uses only JABB.



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“The Moon Goddess”

Back in April 2009 I wrote a detailed critique of an ambient piece of music written for flute, piano and strings. While critical, I felt that my critique was fair and even-handed. The reaction to my critique, which was in response to a post on the forum by the composer, was silence by the composer, followed by two posters who had never posted to a chat page thread before, nor since, and finally the original poster (composer) deleting his initial post. This was disappointing as I was also trying to deal with the limitations of an “ambient new-age tinged” piece for flute and strings. I was curious if what I saw as limitations and weaknesses in the “style” where shared by others.

Unable to come to a satisfactory solution to static and bland harmonies, static harmonic movement, and static/repetitive rhythms I shelved the flute theme I was working on. At the same time I was working on a piece for un-pitched percussion. This piece had its own problems and limitations to over come and like the piece for flute and strings I shelved it. After working on and finishing some other pieces I went back and took a look at several unfinished scores I had lying around. Coming across the flute piece and the percussion piece I decided to smash them together into a single piece. I got rid of all the string parts in the flute piece, double the note values of the flute part and then re-bared it in 6/4 time and dropped it on top the percussion piece that was notated in 12/8 time. Thus was born “The Moon Goddess”.


The original critique: Walking

Jazz, Scat Singing, Prepared Piano and a girl singer, what more could you want?

Quartet / In & Out of Order - Isorhythm Nr.15


Jazz, Scat Singing, Prepared Piano and a girl singer, what more could you want?




Quartet / Isorhythm Nr.4





Quartet / In ferne Himmel

Scat singing like a Dolphin, way too kool!

My Videos

I have over the last several years have created eight videos of an eclectic sample of my music. My most watched video, by a large margin, is “20,000 Songs Fall Silent”. Though I am at a lost to explain why.

While I have many more pieces I would like to create videos for, I currently lack the skills and tools to create what I envision for my music. So I am on the out look for a video oriented person to collaborate with. Until then, enjoy:

The Videos:

The Heat Death of the Universe



[My most watched video]
20,000 Songs Fall Silent



Meisa's Lullaby




Until They Took Her Away




Nagoy




What Ever




The Sun Princess




Amen

Steve Blair Jazz Septet "The Mystic Chord"

Enjoy:

Until They Took Her Away (Video)

Until They Took Her Away

A Tone Haiku for Fute, Koto, and Percussion.

Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization

Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests:


“... Their argument is that Stone Age farmers were domesticating cereals not so much to fill their stomachs but to lighten their heads, by turning the grains into beer. ...”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101108/sc_livescience/beerlubricatedtheriseofcivilizationstudysuggests