Comments (0) Well, the Electro-Acoustic Juke Joint Festival is fast arriving. For those of you in the Cleveland Mississippi area, come on down to the Delta State University Performing Arts Center on Nov. 14th at 8PM to see the first ever performance of Hypnos performed on violin by yours truly.
Just a quick heads up – on November 6th at 6 PM in the MSU College of Music’s Hart Recital Hall, saxophonist Jeff Loeffert will be playing Hypnos. A recording of his last performance of the piece is available on the Audio page.
I’ve added the latest recording of Cellular Hallucinations to the Audio page. It features Ty Forquer rocking out on an extremely difficult percussion solo. Be sure to check out his site as well as his YouTube page.
Two new mp3s are up on the audio page – Fractal Genesis and Hypnos. Both feature saxophonist extraordinaire Jeffrey Loeffert. Be sure to check out his work as a soloist and with the phenomenal H2 Saxophone Quartet.
I’m still working on the wind symphony piece, but it’s not going well. The most likely reason for this is that I’m suffering from writer’s block due to my removal lack of artistic stimulus (in other words, I need to get my ass into SCENE Metrospace this weekend). In fact, of the three complete drafts thus far, only about four pages are usable.
With that in mind, I’ve gone back to the drawing board to attempt to literally draw something in the hope that my heretofore un-diagnosed (and completely made up) synesthesia will manifest itself. The results are below. A word of explanation – the main idea of the piece is fragmentation, similar to the way a book might become brittle and decayed/missing random sections over time.
The question now becomes; do I continue to work from abstractions in a purely electronic environment, or do I immediately try to make the jump to pencil and staff paper?
Both have their associated issues – electronics means either penciling in a sequencer, or limiting myself to piano (which usually ends up pretty boring), while pencil and paper removes the immediacy of prototyping contrapuntal textures and register shifts. In any case, it looks like I’ve still got my work cut out for me.
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