Four Grids (sax, drums)

Download the recordings and score: https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/two-compositions-summer-2021

Duo For Electric Guitar And Bass

Purchase "Oblique" full length on New Focus Recordings at https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/oblique

Prelude And Entity (17EDO e-gtr, digital pno)

download at: https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/energy-shapes-demo
score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l807151g8n0qwjv/Brooks%20-%20Energy%20Shapes%20%28score%29.pdf?dl=0
1-1. Burst, Squiggle, Blot
1-2. Mechanism
1-3. Drop Float
1-4. Interlude No. 1
2-1. Calming Beam
2-2. Zig Zag, Triangle, Dash
2-3. Interlude No. 2
2-4. Open

Aaron Brooks, guitar

Energy Shapes No. 1 (e-gtr, electronics)

Crossdhatch

Crimson Scout A-Type

score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fv4l0ddnxv4am6d/Brooks%20-%20Divergent%20Melodies%20-%20Score.pdf?dl=0
Commissioned by the NC New Music Initiative.
Recorded by the ECU Chamber Winds under the direction of Scott Carter.
Engineered by Adam Scott Neal.
Edited/mixed by Aaron Myers-Brooks.

Divergent Melodies

Divergent Melodies (fl, cl, ob, bsn, tpt, tbn, pno, perc)

score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o76g3pk0d349km0/Myers-Brooks%20-%20Micro-Sonata%20for%20E-Guitar.pdf?dl=0
Live recording. Premiere by Devin Sherman.

I. Isorhythm No. 1
2. Isorhythm No. 2
3. Harmonies

Sonata for Solo Retuned Electric Guitar

Energetic Bursts

Sonata for Solo 17-Tone Guitar

Sonata For Solo 17 Tone Electric Guitar (demo)

View all images with corresponding audio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRqKXj12B3A

All music and images created with HighC: https://highc.org/

1. Climb
2. Ridge
3. Undulate
4. Thunk
5. Pop
6. Overwind
7. Chitter
8. Grow

Eight Miniatures For HighC

Aaron Myers-Brooks, 17EDO guitar
https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/the-11th-and-6th-caves
Ramped/mixed/mastered by Colin Marston http://thethousandcaves.com/

The 11th and 6th Caves (17 tone e-guitar)

Recorded by the composer. Score included with bandcamp album download: https://aaronmyersbrooks.bandcamp.com/album/miniatures-for-piano

Seven Just Intonation Miniatures for Piano

score: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d6lff9rmm9ladkd/1%20Brooks%20-%20Two%20Rhythmic%20Studies%20for%20String%20Quartet%20score.pdf?dl=0

I. As Foreground
II. As Background
read by the JACK Quartet

Two Rhythmic Studies for String Quartet

Aaron Myers-Brooks is a composer, educator, and performer of diverse interests who comes to musical creativity by way of rock and metal’s avant-garde. Born and raised in Greenville, North Carolina by visual artist parents, he developed an interest in creativity at a young age, first via drawing as a child, and later with 4-track home recording during his teenage years, subsequently finding a home in the contemporary classical and DIY rock worlds during college. He is currently active as a Pittsburgh based composer and teacher, and as a guitarist in math metal bands AutoReplicant and Monochromatic Residua, and filk (fiction folk) duo Familiar.

 

Aaron composes in various styles, but always attempts to maintain a quirky and exciting approach to rhythmic energy in his music. Much of his recent work focuses on microtonal electronic and electric guitar writing through digital technology, alternate tunings, and on 17-notes-per-octave guitar. 

Aaron currently serves as Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. As an educator, Aaron has largely focused on teaching electronic music and music theory, recently developing Pitt’s first Ableton beat-making course and assisting in the development of an undergrad music theory curriculum which integrates a broad variety of musics and perspectives.

 

Aaron has written pieces at the request of the North Carolina New Music Initiative, Collide-O-Scope Music, Patchwork, and Kamraton, among others. Aaron has performed at events such as the Beyond 2020: Microtonal Music Festival, Berserker Fest, Kamraton’s She Scores series, the Ohio Valley Filk Fest, and Cropped Out. His bands and compositions have been released by labels such as New Focus Recordings and Corpseflower Records and have been reviewed favorably by Metal Injection, KLANG - New Music On The Fringe, Decibel Magazine, and Cleveland Classical, among others.

Aaron Myers-Brooks, composer

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