trembles on the brink
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A fascinating yet popular chord progression. An ambiguous and slightly pretentious title. This piece already seems bound for greatness!
For this week's New Music Appetizer, I'm joining forces with a handful of musician friends to write some music "just for fun" (whatever that means). The online music collaboration site Kompoz allows people to upload and download individual tracks of a song, facilitating remote collaboration. There are some great projects and great potential on the site.
trembles on the brink combines the soft strings chord progression of Jerome Kern's All the Things You Are (perhaps the most perfect song ever created) with... well, I don't know yet. That's the joy of collaboration!
To hear two other versions of the progression and learn more about the project, visit its Kompoz page.
Switching gears, also note that the Home and Projects pages of my website have undergone revisions and added a bunch of links. I finally got around to learning basic HTML coding yesterday, and I do mean basic! (A HREF=what?)
Enjoy, and have a good week. As always, say hi through comments. I'm off to imitate Boulez! Sort of...
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
New Music Appetizer Week #5 - A Trip Down Memory Lane
Mark
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Darn, 24 minutes late.
Here's a mini-blast from the sort-of-past: a short piano work I wrote while a senior in undergrad and finally coming around to the slow realization that a "composer" is one who actually composes music... like, for real... and has it performed.
Mark is a character piece dedicated to my older brother. While the dissonances now sound far too harsh to my ears, the piece was meant to reflect the odd beauty of my brother's firm resolve through any sort of adversity. Some call it persistent. Some call it stubborn. But in any case, this is what it sounded like to my 21-year-old mind.
The recording features yours truly at the piano during my senior piano recital, the high point of my piano playing prowess!
Kind of a departure from the newly-created music theme of my New Music Appetizer, I realize, but I hope I will be forgiven. Last weekend was the insane 24-Hour Musicals, and I've got another collaborative project in the works starting this weekend.
As always, if you stop by, take 15 seconds to say hi. Leave a comment, or go to www.kylegullings.com, poke around a bit, and send me a message through the Contact Me page! Bye until next Friday.
MP3
Darn, 24 minutes late.
Here's a mini-blast from the sort-of-past: a short piano work I wrote while a senior in undergrad and finally coming around to the slow realization that a "composer" is one who actually composes music... like, for real... and has it performed.
Mark is a character piece dedicated to my older brother. While the dissonances now sound far too harsh to my ears, the piece was meant to reflect the odd beauty of my brother's firm resolve through any sort of adversity. Some call it persistent. Some call it stubborn. But in any case, this is what it sounded like to my 21-year-old mind.
The recording features yours truly at the piano during my senior piano recital, the high point of my piano playing prowess!
Kind of a departure from the newly-created music theme of my New Music Appetizer, I realize, but I hope I will be forgiven. Last weekend was the insane 24-Hour Musicals, and I've got another collaborative project in the works starting this weekend.
As always, if you stop by, take 15 seconds to say hi. Leave a comment, or go to www.kylegullings.com, poke around a bit, and send me a message through the Contact Me page! Bye until next Friday.
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