Name: Witchy by alexfsands
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: forced into a time of unproductiveness, those that can create, create! Those that can conjure, conjure. Creativity is a kind of magic that all humans possess. We're all a little witchy, if you will.

Live set from Geary Avenue Warehouse Project, Junction Toronto

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On The Threshold

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Quartet (2016)
for viola, cello, bass, and piano
written as part of the Scotia Festival of Music Young Artists Program

Viola: Carolyn Farnand
Cello: Susana Tascon
Bass: Joshua Bullen
Piano: Chloe Weston

This piece, for me, acted as a study in sonority and the exploration of the resonances that these four instruments can produce. Being presented with the somewhat unorthodox instrumentation of a piano quartet with bass instead of violin, I was faced with the wonderful realization of what this did for the ensemble. The entire registral core of the group was shifted significantly lower, and created this wonderfully dark colour palette to work with. My aim was to exploit these unique nuances and characteristics of the ensemble and bring the instruments away from their assumed roles within chamber music.

Quartet

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Creation - Electroacoustics and Dance

I wrote this as a tribute to Grant Kirkhope's "Glitter-Glaze Glacier," a theme on Playtonic's game "Yooka Laylee" with many elements of Christmas-y snow-themed music.

Sparkly Snow Cave

Poem by Bänoo Zan
Baritone: Korin Thomas-Smith
Piano: Frances Armstrong

The basis of this poem is the idea of acceptance in a new society. Written by a lake in the nighttime, the moon symbolically represents the poet who views herself in the wavy reflection of a lake, represented by the wave-like accompaniment in the piano. These waves are symbols of a fragmented immigrant, misrepresented by our North American society. The sun represents Iran, the home country, represented by a small theme. These themes circulate throughout the piece to conclude to harmony in acceptance of this trait, this façade of newness to a different culture; the acceptance of embracing one’s culture within another, to the betterment of the poet as a person. 

This was commissioned by Daniel Robinson as part of the "Sounds of Silence" Initiative at the Music Gallery on December 7th, 2017.

The Moon

The beauty of Canadian winters is characterized by the sparkling sensation of the snowflakes, which make up the white horizons. Each little frozen crystal has its own design and, gathered with billions of others, creates the cold snow which we hate but love because of its clear beauty. This piece conveys that beauty seen behind a closed window...Where there is heating.

Performed by the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra on March 7th, 2018.

My Compositions

Snowflakes (for Orchestra)

This piece for organ, string quintet, and percussion is an interpretation of Claudia Rynkowski’s painting. This interpretation demonstrates the two hands that hold on to the thread as a hopeful but teetering element of an artist’s comfortable compositional past which influences them, with the havoc below representing the uncomfortable surrounding artists’ crave of experimentation and innovation. The piece takes the idea of the continuous thread and does not let the artist fall, nor does it let it hang any longer but harmoniously mixes the elements of creative past and innovative future, therefore displaying that which makes all artists so original. 

Conducted by: Victor Cheng
Performed by:
 Tyler Versluis (organ) Jamie Godber (Violin I)Emily Bosenius (Violin II) Clara Nguyentran (Viola) Madeleine Smith (Cello) Chiara Culmone (Double Bass)Andrew Gordon Bell (Percussion I) Keshav Sharma-Jaitly (Percussion II) and Lian McMillan (Percussion III) 
at the Student Composer Concert No. 5 in Walter Hall in March 2018.

Composition Portfolio 2018

Hanging On By a Thread (Based on a Painting by Claudia Rynkowski)

forced into a time of unproductiveness, those that can create, create! Those that can conjure, conjure. Creativity is a kind of magic that all humans possess. We're all a little witchy, if you will.

Witchy

alexfsands

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