waiting

I am sitting here in my hospital room waiting for the nurse to bring me my 4mg of morphine.

Current music projects

Music

Well have starte making some sketches for a couple of new pieces,  but most of my time is spent mixing existing pieces.

I hane what sounds like a ground fault on my speakers, but everything I have hss had no effect on the problem, so I am stuck mixing on headphones.

String Quartet #1

String Quartet #1

雪

This is a short five movement piece for string quartet. Each movement is only about one minute each. And each movement is one line of a tanka that I wrote about Snow (Yuki). I wrote the second movement first and all of the material in the other four movements appears in or is derived from the second movement. Given this, one can think of the first movement as a prelude with the second movement being the main movement. The fifth movement re-states the main motifs of the first four movements, combining them into one large polyphonic mass.

Unable to sleep

I listen throughout the night

to the silent song

of falling snow in my yard.

With the soft dawn, satori.

• The first movement is built around the pentatonic scale F# G B C# D. (The Japanese Hirajoshi Scale )
• The second movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A.
• The third movement is built around the pentatonic scale D Eb G A Bb.
• The fourth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C Dd F G Ab
• The fifth movement is built around the pentatonic scale C# D F# G# A

MP3 at: http://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/22295.html

Sakura

Sakura
falling in the breeze.
Life goes on

Haiku of the week

   
Like the morning dew
Under the harsh light of day
Your lies fade away.
   

Dancing Up the Morning Sun

A  Serendipitous Experiment in Sound

 Dancing Up the Morning Sun

Not sure if this works or how it works. 

No score for it since the score would make no sense.

Just an Atonal ("atonal" as it only uses unpitch percussion and sounds) experiment in sound and rhythm.  

Tanka of the day

  

Crisp spring rain

snow on the mountains

bright sunlight

bills I have to pay

to work I must go

  

Haiku of the week

   

Listen to

naught but emptiness

and silence.  

   

Inner Flow

Inner Flow

A nine minute Jazz : Ambient: Meditation in 27/8 time.

MP3 and Score at: Inner Flow (Score & MP3)

MP3 only: Inner Flow (MP3)

J-Pop queued on the player

Sitting on the beach

am I becoming

a melancholy

Renaissance painter

Sipping Corn N' Oil

  

   

Surreal poem of the day

Standing in the rain

夜行と雨

      

Standing in the rain 
tiny cold tears of heaven 
kissing her dark hair

   

   

EOUS a bit of "free jazz".

Eous

As a composer I occasionally get a musical idea stuck in my craw that I can not shake out of my ears until I get it down on paper and published; "Eous"(1) is one such piece.

"Eous" is a piece for a Jazz group consisting of Soprano Sax, Vibraphone, Bass and Drums. Please take a listen to the MP3 for an example of one way the piece could be interpreted. Thank you.

Eous

   

(1) "Eous" is a made up word with no meaning.