Tag 'recording'

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Doodle in A Minor

Click to play (5 min 15 sec)

And I finally am posting recordings of a couple piano doodles in C Major from 2005–2006.

2.	Doodle in C #1	Click to play (5 min 5 sec)
3.	Doodle in C #2	Click to play (10 min 57 sec)

I also updated the recording of Nothing Has Changed quite a while ago, but in case you missed it, here it is:

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Nothing Has Changed

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The trouble with being a composer is that I always hope some day I will be able to play these pieces perfectly, so that you can hear exactly what I was trying to get at, but that day never comes and I eventually get bored of the piece and stop playing it altogether, which only makes things worse. But I would rather get out an imperfect recording than none at all, and I will trust you to forgive my mistakes.

Before we burned all the instruments, I made some studio recordings. Here are three short pieces for paperwinds and paper tube xylophone:

1.	Dance	Click to play (56 sec)
2.	A3 A4	Click to play (1 min 32 sec)
3.	Floo-ee-oo-ee-ute	Click to play (1 min 38 sec)

Related to this paper is a seven-movement piece in which each movement is inspired by and contains the symmetry of each of the seven frieze patterns. The piece will ultimately be a piano trio, but three movements of the piano sketch are now available:

1.	Dizzy Hop	Click to play (1 min 28 sec)
2.	Hop	Click to play (1 min 26 sec)
3.	Sidle	Click to play (2 min 18 sec)

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Altitude Beta Theme

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A commission like this is a collaboration between the game designer and composer, and we have to work together to get the feel of the music to be just what the game designer envisions. The first draft of the music contained three different ideas I was playing around with. We ended up going with something more serious, but you might enjoy listening to the original:

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Altitude Theme Draft

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1.	Storm	Click to play (1 min 43 sec)
		A piece for paper xylophone and assorted paper winds.
2.	Didgeriduel	Click to play (1 min 16 sec)
		A piece for two dueling paper didgeridoos, paper tube harp, paper drum, and--unintentionally--dog.

Here's a picture of the band rehearsing. From left to right: Frank Maes on paper drum, a blurry Hendrik Goris playing the paper xylophone faster than the eye can see, myself adjusting a paper slide-flute (note that the skirt is made of paper as well), and Stefan Langerman on the paper hand-flute. In the corner you can see the two black tubes of the tube bass, and most of the giant didgeritube.

So you can get an idea of the theatrics behind the didgeriduel, here is Stefan with the giant didgeridoo which extended into the audience (it is not at full length in this picture), and myself with a comparatively small didge.

Here is Hendrik playing the tube harp. Like the paper xylophone, the pitches can be adjusted easily by changing the lengths of the tubes.

1.	Dizzy Hop	Click to play (1 min 28 sec)
2.	Hop	Click to play (1 min 26 sec)

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Nothing Has Changed

Click to play (5 min 19 sec)