Some of my music is now available for listening at Sony's Acid Planet site.
Ursus Demens at Acid Planet
I hope to have more pieces available in August.
Ursus Demens
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
heat death of the universe
New score and an updated score are now available:
the heat death of the universe is now available. The piece is scored for solo contrabass clarinet in BBb.
The expanded version of Thelyphthoric is also available.
I am still waiting for my copy of Sibelius 4.0. It is due to ship next week.
Lastly:
I had promised to write about things in the world that piss me off. Well I have been giving this some thought and pissing and moaning about (mostly) people and things does little to bring more light into the world and only gives strength to the darkness. So I will be trying my best not to share.
Ursus Demens
the heat death of the universe is now available. The piece is scored for solo contrabass clarinet in BBb.
The expanded version of Thelyphthoric is also available.
I am still waiting for my copy of Sibelius 4.0. It is due to ship next week.
Lastly:
I had promised to write about things in the world that piss me off. Well I have been giving this some thought and pissing and moaning about (mostly) people and things does little to bring more light into the world and only gives strength to the darkness. So I will be trying my best not to share.
Ursus Demens
Monday, July 25, 2005
Friday, July 22, 2005
Where I am at this month
Damn! I had not realized that it has been almost a month since I last posted. Where the hell did the time go?
I have been working on a companion piece to the darkness between the stars called ”the heat death of the universe”. I will let you know when it is available, probably late next week or the week after.
I continue to tweak and expand Thelyphthoric. I will try to upload the newest version this weekend. However since it appears that score approvals are hung up at the moment, I would guess that nothing will be approved until Monday so check back late Monday to for a status.
Since I last posted Sibelius Software has announced the release of Sibelius version 4.0 http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/ I look forward to receiving my copy. [Now I just need to scrape up some pennies for a new computer.]
Lastly:
I try very hard not to be pissed off at the world, but there are times (and months) where I just can not seem to help myself. Tell me has ANYONE EVER seen a Lexus driver use a turn signal? I haven’t.
Ursus Demens
PS: More things that piss me off next week.
I have been working on a companion piece to the darkness between the stars called ”the heat death of the universe”. I will let you know when it is available, probably late next week or the week after.
I continue to tweak and expand Thelyphthoric. I will try to upload the newest version this weekend. However since it appears that score approvals are hung up at the moment, I would guess that nothing will be approved until Monday so check back late Monday to for a status.
Since I last posted Sibelius Software has announced the release of Sibelius version 4.0 http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/ I look forward to receiving my copy. [Now I just need to scrape up some pennies for a new computer.]
Lastly:
I try very hard not to be pissed off at the world, but there are times (and months) where I just can not seem to help myself. Tell me has ANYONE EVER seen a Lexus driver use a turn signal? I haven’t.
Ursus Demens
PS: More things that piss me off next week.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Where I am at this week.
Well other than being in Southern California that is.
Well I have resume composing, a little at least. I am continuing to add material to Thelyphthoric the piece that refuses to stop growing. I will try to upload the newest version tonight, it is getting close to nine minutes long and I have no idea how I am going to bring` the piece to a close it just seems to want to go on and on. At this point I am worried that piece is starting to ramble and lose coherence. I do not know. But today I feel I just have to put the notes down as they come and get it out of my system. Maybe someday I can go back a “cut the fat” from it and make is a coherent whole.
Two weeks ago I said I was going to write about “musical cowardice” but I have been unable to put all of my thoughts in to words. The subject idea came to me because of the antics of a “composer” (I am refraining from calling him “fellow composer”) on the SibeliusMusic website and chat page. To summarize his behavior: he removes from the site any piece of his music that receives a review that is less than total adoration and fawning over his “greatness”. The piece is then uploaded again (thus removing the review). So I ask you, is this musical cowardice? The inability of let your music stand in the public light and leaving it there no matter what slings and arrows might be hurled against it?
I would love to hear your thought on this. And my music and music in general.
Have a good day.
Ursus Demens
Well I have resume composing, a little at least. I am continuing to add material to Thelyphthoric the piece that refuses to stop growing. I will try to upload the newest version tonight, it is getting close to nine minutes long and I have no idea how I am going to bring` the piece to a close it just seems to want to go on and on. At this point I am worried that piece is starting to ramble and lose coherence. I do not know. But today I feel I just have to put the notes down as they come and get it out of my system. Maybe someday I can go back a “cut the fat” from it and make is a coherent whole.
Two weeks ago I said I was going to write about “musical cowardice” but I have been unable to put all of my thoughts in to words. The subject idea came to me because of the antics of a “composer” (I am refraining from calling him “fellow composer”) on the SibeliusMusic website and chat page. To summarize his behavior: he removes from the site any piece of his music that receives a review that is less than total adoration and fawning over his “greatness”. The piece is then uploaded again (thus removing the review). So I ask you, is this musical cowardice? The inability of let your music stand in the public light and leaving it there no matter what slings and arrows might be hurled against it?
I would love to hear your thought on this. And my music and music in general.
Have a good day.
Ursus Demens
Thursday, June 09, 2005
I apologize for not getting it done this week.
My plan was to talk about what it means to be a musical coward this week. But as I thought and reflected upon this concept my ideas on the subject began to grow and become quite disjointed. The result is that I do not think I will be able to finish my essay this week. I apologize for not getting it done this week.
As an aside I have been pretty much “dry” since I stopped my weekly Blog piece. I have only written one new piece since the end of March. But I am spending the time trying to tidy up scores, create parts and record another computer generated CD of my music. I have also had a short correspondence with Joyce Rice of Harp Spectrum about the playability for my harp pieces, and some of them are in serious need of editing so that will be another project on my plate to finish before I compose anything new.
Ursus Demens
As an aside I have been pretty much “dry” since I stopped my weekly Blog piece. I have only written one new piece since the end of March. But I am spending the time trying to tidy up scores, create parts and record another computer generated CD of my music. I have also had a short correspondence with Joyce Rice of Harp Spectrum about the playability for my harp pieces, and some of them are in serious need of editing so that will be another project on my plate to finish before I compose anything new.
Ursus Demens
Friday, June 03, 2005
Musical Coward?
Sorry I have not posted this week. I have begun thinking about the above question: Is it possible to be a muscial coward? And if so what is a muscial coward? Come back next week and I will share with you some on my ideas. In the meantime I would love to hear your thoughts.
Ursus Demens
Ursus Demens
Thursday, May 26, 2005
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.
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.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Too Many Years Ago
Some time ago I posted in my Sibelius Website several pieces of music that I wrote too many years ago when I first started attending university. I posted them with the idea that some people might find them interesting, at least as a contrast to the pieces I am now writing. However all things must come to an end and I will be removing these pieces on the 27th or 28th. So here is your last chance to listen too (and see) some of my earliest surviving music.
An Eyelash In My Mascara
The Darkness is My Closest Friend
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Early Fugue for Strings
Lexx
The Lady in the White Suit with a Cigar
I also posted a incomplete sketch for an orchestra piece. This too will be your last change to listen to it.
The Darkness Within One's Heart
There are a couple of other early pieces that I will be leaving up for now. Please enjoy. Or as I said when I first posted them:
For your enjoyment I present you a historical oddity/curiosity. This is something I wrote some 26 years ago when I was first at university. I will leave it to you to judge whether my skills have progressed or regressed in the ensuing 26 years. I offer it up for your amusement and ridicule.
Edo S. Bear
An Eyelash In My Mascara
The Darkness is My Closest Friend
Why Have You Forsaken Me?
Early Fugue for Strings
Lexx
The Lady in the White Suit with a Cigar
I also posted a incomplete sketch for an orchestra piece. This too will be your last change to listen to it.
The Darkness Within One's Heart
There are a couple of other early pieces that I will be leaving up for now. Please enjoy. Or as I said when I first posted them:
For your enjoyment I present you a historical oddity/curiosity. This is something I wrote some 26 years ago when I was first at university. I will leave it to you to judge whether my skills have progressed or regressed in the ensuing 26 years. I offer it up for your amusement and ridicule.
Edo S. Bear
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Greetings.
Well I am back from my trip to Japan and it is nice to be sleeping in my own bed again. The trip was very enjoyable, but very arduous, as we were traveling almost everyday. I will post more once I am over my jet lag.
Ursus Demens
Ursus Demens
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Moon Shadow
My latest Big Band Piece, not quite finished, but ready for day light.
Moon Shadow Please leave a note a let me know what you think about it.
Will finish it up when I get back from Japan.
Ursus Demens
Moon Shadow Please leave a note a let me know what you think about it.
Will finish it up when I get back from Japan.
Ursus Demens
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)