Compositions

Feb 19 2017

This piece came from a Disquiet Junto prompt, week #372.  It had been two phrases buried in a larger piece, but after submitting the week's assignment, I wanted to give these two sections a little more attention.

I'm spending more time in LA these days, but Brooklyn is still home.... The idea of two coasts is playing on my mind.

Two Coasts

Assembly/Delivery is a 3-minute piece for Chamber Orchestra that I wrote and produced in June of 2019. My first foray into writing for chamber orchestra, I found the prospect daunting at first, but I knew the piece would revolve around marimba, which I used as my way into the piece. I loaded up a marimba sample and started to improv on my keyboard. The central Marimba line came out very quickly, though it required extensive cleaning and culling to make it a more cohesive and organized line. Next up, when I felt I’d exhausted that idea, was the trumpet line in the second “section”. I don’t feel that writing melody is my strength (yet…) and I’m far more apt to write extended chordal progressions (see: the first half of the piece) but I wanted to have a solo trumpet melody in the piece and I didn’t know that it would fit over the marimba line. Once the framework was in place, I began to flesh out ideas, writing counter-lines and adding harmonic support, primarily with woodwinds in the first section and leaning heavily on the trombones and horns in the second part.

Assembly/Delivery

The three-body problem describes the intricacies of plotting future position and motion for three or more masses given their initial positions and velocities.  In Three-Body Problem, instruments connect and circle each other, interacting, before parting as other relationships form and are lost.

The Three-Body Problem

Demo reel of snippets from 5 different styles/genres of film music.

Film Scoring Demo

Little Objects

How do you deal with shifting time in a musical context?  How do you deal with shifting time in real life?

Voice, effects, and Moog Subharmonicon.  Features sections of text from "In Search of Schrödinger's Cat" by John Gribbin.

Arrow Of Time

(they/them) LA/NY-based artist, composer, and technologist.

Compositions

Hawthorn