CC21 piece #2 is complete: "Music for Busking" for solo violin or viola. Who wants to play it, and when/where?
As always, download the PDF and MP3 free from the CC21 webpage.
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Showing posts with label mp3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mp3. Show all posts
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Friday, March 6, 2009
New Music Appetizer Week #6 - Teamwork Is the Key
trembles on the brink
MP3
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...
MP3
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...
Friday, February 27, 2009
New Music Appetizer Week #5 - A Trip Down Memory Lane
Mark
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.
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.
Monday, February 16, 2009
REDO New Music Appetizer Week #4 - Duchess of Malfi Sampler Platter
(revised audio samples and title!)
So, who knew you have to manually enter enclosure links in order for multiple files to show up on a podcast? Well, perhaps Oby knew. And Google Help sure knew. You learn something new every day. Thanks for the vigilant watch!...
Feel free to delete the old #3/4.
Gates Shut
MP3
4 Cannons
MP3
Wax Figures Reveal
MP3
Malfi Court Music 3
MP3
Here's a big round of short samples, all from the Duchess of Malfi, playing now through Sunday at CUA. It's a sort of Malfi Sampler Platter, if you will. Enjoy!
* Gates shutting
* 4 cannon shots in the distance
* Creepy "revealing of dead bodies" sound
* Malfi Court Music #3 (different from the previous music)
This last one, the Malfi music, is one of my favorites, largely because I very much enjoy how realistic the solo woodwinds sound - at least to my ears! What do you think?
So, not many comments on last week's New Music Appetizer. Maybe the variety of this week's selection will help that!
I've got a new project in the works, possibly collaborating with some others, but more on that later!
So, who knew you have to manually enter enclosure links in order for multiple files to show up on a podcast? Well, perhaps Oby knew. And Google Help sure knew. You learn something new every day. Thanks for the vigilant watch!...
Feel free to delete the old #3/4.
Gates Shut
MP3
4 Cannons
MP3
Wax Figures Reveal
MP3
Malfi Court Music 3
MP3
Here's a big round of short samples, all from the Duchess of Malfi, playing now through Sunday at CUA. It's a sort of Malfi Sampler Platter, if you will. Enjoy!
* Gates shutting
* 4 cannon shots in the distance
* Creepy "revealing of dead bodies" sound
* Malfi Court Music #3 (different from the previous music)
This last one, the Malfi music, is one of my favorites, largely because I very much enjoy how realistic the solo woodwinds sound - at least to my ears! What do you think?
So, not many comments on last week's New Music Appetizer. Maybe the variety of this week's selection will help that!
I've got a new project in the works, possibly collaborating with some others, but more on that later!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
New Music Appetizer Week #3 - Duchess of Malfi Court Music
Malfi Court 2 samples
MP3
PDF
Two days late, I realize, but I hope you'll forgive me. It is tech week, after all!
This week you get Malfi Court 2 samples, another sneak-peek into the sounds of Duchess of Malfi, playing Feb. 12-15 at Catholic University in DC. The MP3 contains two different settings of the melody "Rose, Red". All sounds are (quite obviously) synthesized.
The second setting, which starts after :22 or so, has some pretty crappy synth strings on it. (Just wait until that last chord... ew!) But that's what you get here on New Music Appetizer - freshly-made music that doesn't hide its first draft qualities!
See the PDF for the melody and lyrics.
You have two assignments this week:
1.) Make one suggestion for improvement, and
2.) Find one audio-tech savvy person you know, and ask her/him to listen to and comment on this sample.
Mmmm... Appetizers.
MP3
Two days late, I realize, but I hope you'll forgive me. It is tech week, after all!
This week you get Malfi Court 2 samples, another sneak-peek into the sounds of Duchess of Malfi, playing Feb. 12-15 at Catholic University in DC. The MP3 contains two different settings of the melody "Rose, Red". All sounds are (quite obviously) synthesized.
The second setting, which starts after :22 or so, has some pretty crappy synth strings on it. (Just wait until that last chord... ew!) But that's what you get here on New Music Appetizer - freshly-made music that doesn't hide its first draft qualities!
See the PDF for the melody and lyrics.
You have two assignments this week:
1.) Make one suggestion for improvement, and
2.) Find one audio-tech savvy person you know, and ask her/him to listen to and comment on this sample.
Mmmm... Appetizers.
Monday, February 2, 2009
New Music Appetizer Week #2 - Duchess of Malfi waves-breath-blood (link works now)
waves-breath-blood
MP3
No score this time. Here's my first draft of one of the sounds I'm creating for Duchess of Malfi. I'm calling this waves-breath-blood. It uses a mixture of found, recorded, synthesized, and (eventually) live sources to create a sort of soundscape.
Now, how do I make this sound cooler and creepier, yet less contrived, artificial, and distractingly intentioned? Thoughts?
The show runs February 12-15 at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and is directed by Ryan Whinnem. Check it out!
Okay, your turn. If you're intrigued by what you hear on my New Music Appetizer series, why not let me know by e-mail? Better yet, subscribe to my blog's podcast for automatic updates. (right side of the screen)
MP3
No score this time. Here's my first draft of one of the sounds I'm creating for Duchess of Malfi. I'm calling this waves-breath-blood. It uses a mixture of found, recorded, synthesized, and (eventually) live sources to create a sort of soundscape.
Now, how do I make this sound cooler and creepier, yet less contrived, artificial, and distractingly intentioned? Thoughts?
The show runs February 12-15 at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and is directed by Ryan Whinnem. Check it out!
Okay, your turn. If you're intrigued by what you hear on my New Music Appetizer series, why not let me know by e-mail? Better yet, subscribe to my blog's podcast for automatic updates. (right side of the screen)
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